RU108864U1 - CLOCK WITH A DEVICE FOR INDICATING DAY AND NIGHT - Google Patents

Abstract

 A clock with day and night indications containing a radio signal receiver, a time setting unit and an indication unit, characterized in that a solar calculator and a pairing interface are introduced therein, the radio signal receiver is made in the form of a navigator and is connected to a solar calculator and a block of indication via a pairing interface.

Description

The utility model relates to devices for indicating time, more specifically, devices for indicating the current time and indicating the moment of occurrence and the duration of the day and night.

A device for indicating the current time and indicating the moment of occurrence and the duration of the day and night, which allows the indication of the duration of the day and night. To do this, on the axis of the clock mechanism there are indicators of parts of the day and night, connected by springs with additional arrows of sunrise and sunset, the movement of the arrows in accordance with the change in the duration of daylight hours is carried out by turning the driving wheel with a tooth and through the trib - crank wheel. The arrows show the time of sunset and sunrise on the usual scale of the daily dial. By adjusting the length of the connecting rods installed on the drive mechanism and the displacement of their axes in the grooves of the hands, the clock is adjusted due to a change in the latitude of the area in which they are used (see, for example, RU No. 1365038)

The disadvantage of this device is its limited functionality and low accuracy, due to the fact that this device is a mechanical device that does not provide for the use of external signals from high-precision electronic devices.

Closest to the proposed is the device of the clock, informing about the local time and the state of the day and night / sun exposure / at any geographical point on the planet Earth, expanding the service in the information field. (with In this device, the lamp diffuser has a translucent pattern depicting, on a deformed scale, the oceans, seas, rivers, continents, countries, islands of the planet Earth. A mechanical clockwork is built into the lamp, rotating the lamp with a speed of one revolution in 24 hours around the fixed axis, corresponding to the drawing of the axis of the World applied to the plafond. The local time clock is counted along the meridian - the eastern border of the local time zone and a fixed 24-hour dial. The minute time countdown is made on a leash that makes one revolution per hour around the ceiling. An artificial Earth satellite can be mounted on the leash. days of the week is made automatically when the watch is winding in. The mechanical watch movement has a start-stop device and a radio receiver that receives the CEV exact time signals, with which automatic correction of the clock.

indication accuracy.

The aim of the proposal is the creation of high-precision watches with indication of day and night. For this purpose, a watch with indication of day and night is offered, comprising a navigator, a time-setting unit, a solar calculator and an indication unit connected via a pairing interface.

The set of essential features of the claimed watch with a device for indicating day and night does not follow explicitly from the studied prior art, has significant differences from the considered analogues. Therefore, the applicant believes that the claimed watch with a device for indicating day and night meets the criterion of "novelty" and have an inventive step. The proposed watch with a device for indicating day and night can be made on the existing elemental base used for the manufacture of known functional units of the proposed device and therefore meet the eligibility criterion of "industrial applicability".

The essence of the proposed utility model is illustrated by drawings. Figure 1 shows a functional diagram of the device, figure 2-5 embodiments of the display unit.

It should be noted that this example does not cover all possible options for implementing this technical solution, which can be used to create a watch with a device for indicating day and night.

The device comprises a navigator 1, a pairing interface 2, a solar calculator 3, a timing unit 4 and an indication unit 5.

The device operates as follows:

Navigator 1, which can be used as a well-known GPS module, GLONASS or any other positioning system in space, determines the location of the device on planet Earth - the latitude, longitude and height of the device above the ground, i.e. the spatial coordinates of the device’s location point. This information through the pairing interface 2 enters the solar calculator 3, which simultaneously receives the exact time signal from the time unit 4. The solar calculator 3 calculates the ecliptic, equatorial and horizontal coordinates of the sun, sunrise and sunset times, azimuths of sunrise and sunset, longitude of the day, and moment top culmination and the equation of time for any point on the globe (see, for example, Sunrise / Sunset Algorithm Example http://williams.best.vwh.net/sunrise_sunset_example.htm) and transmits information about the time of sunrise and sunset to the input of block 5 of the display d For the temporal and spatial coordinates of the device’s location. This information is visualized by the display unit 5. Visualization options are determined by the execution of block 5 of the display.

For example, using two arrows, (figure 2) One arrow shows the sunrise, the other arrow respectively shows the sunset. The arrows can be of the same color or different colors, for example, the sunrise arrow can be white, and the sunset arrow can be blue.

Note - if there is no night in this area as such (polar day), the clock hands can be folded and look at 12 o’clock, and if there is no day (polar night) the clock hands can be folded and watch at 6 o’clock. There are other options for designating the polar night and polar day.

When the display unit 5 in accordance with FIGS. 3 and 4 is visualized, the sunrise and sunset moments are visualized by the boundaries of the light and dark areas: the boundary of the transition from the bright region to the dark region can be interpreted as the sunset arrow, and the boundary of the transition from the dark region can be interpreted as arrow showing sunrise.

This embodiment of block 5 is adapted to visualize the longitude of the night (or day, at the request of the user). In the event that the night in days in a given area at a given time of the year is less than daylight hours, then this can be reflected as in Fig. 3, and if night is longer than daylight hours, as in Fig. 4. It is clear that it is possible to additionally display on the watch screen in mechanical or electronic display information about the 12 hour period of the day, namely the first or second 12 hours of the current day, in other words, before or after noon

The visualization of sunset and sunrise (as a result of night or day) shown in FIG. 5 is applicable to electronic clocks showing time using Arabic numerals (numbers).

In this example, the clock in the center of the display shows the current time of the user, and the time for sunset and sunrise, respectively, is located above and below the designation of the current time, and the times of sunrise and sunset can change places depending on the time of day. For example, if it is day, then the time of sunrise is written above and the time of sunset from below and in reverse if it is night.

Claims (1)

A clock with day and night indications containing a radio signal receiver, a time setting unit and an indication unit, characterized in that a solar calculator and a pairing interface are introduced therein, the radio signal receiver is made in the form of a navigator and is connected to a solar calculator and a block of indication via a pairing interface.