RU112459U1 - CLOCK WITH A DEVICE FOR INDICATING DAY AND NIGHT - Google Patents

Abstract

A clock with day and night indication, containing a pairing interface, to which a navigator, a timing unit, a solar calculator and an indication unit are connected, differing in that a calculator connected to the pairing interface is inserted into them.

Description

The utility model relates to devices for indicating the time, more precisely, to devices for displaying the current time and indicating the moment of occurrence and the duration of the day and night and allows you to determine the remaining time until dawn / sunset.

A device for displaying the current time and indicating the moment of occurrence and the duration of the day and night, which allows for the indication of the duration of the day and night / sun exposure / at any geographical point on the planet Earth, expanding the service in the information field. In this device, a translucent pattern of the luminaire has a translucent pattern depicting, on a deformed scale, oceans, seas, rivers, continents, countries, islands of the planet Earth. A mechanical clockwork is built into the lamp, which rotates the lampshade at a speed of one revolution in 24 hours around a fixed axis, corresponding to the pattern of the World axis applied to the lampshade. A fixed shield-shutter distributes light from the source in such a way that a visual picture of the real current illumination of the surface of the planet Earth is created. Local time is counted along the meridian - the eastern border of the local time zone and the fixed 24-hour clock. The minute countdown is made on a leash, making one revolution per hour around the ceiling. An artificial Earth satellite can be mounted on a leash. The days of the week are counted automatically when the watch is wound. The mechanical clock mechanism of the watch has a start-stop device and a radio receiver that receives signals of the exact CEV time, with the help of which automatic correction of the watch’s progress is carried out, (with

indication accuracy.

Closest to the proposed one is a clock with day and night indication, containing a radio signal receiver, a time unit, an indication unit, a solar calculator and a pairing interface, a radio signal receiver made in the form of a navigator and connected through a pairing interface to a solar calculator and a block of indication. In this device, the solar calculator calculates the ecliptic, equatorial and horizontal coordinates of the Sun, the time of sunrise and sunset, the azimuths of sunrise and sunset, the longitude of the day, the moment of the upper climax and the equation of time for the temporal and spatial coordinates of the device’s location. This information is visualized by the display unit, (see, for example, patent application for PM No. RU 2011122391 dated 02.06.2011),

However, this technical solution does not allow determining the residual time before dawn / sunset, which limits the functionality of the device. At the same time, such information is necessary, for example, for tourists who want to optimally distribute travel times along the route and halt.

The technical problem to which this proposal is directed is the expansion of functionality - increasing the information content of high-precision watches with indication of day and night. To solve this problem, we propose a clock with indication of day and night, containing a pairing interface to which a navigator, a time-setting unit, a solar calculator, a calculator and an indication unit are connected,

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." 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 examples of execution of the display unit.

It should be noted that these examples do not cover all possible options for the implementation of this technical solution, which can be used to create a watch with a device for indicating the day and night on a wrist or any other electronic watch, including portable electronic devices, such as: cellular Phones, tablets, laptops, communicators, etc.

The device comprises a navigator 1, a solar calculator 2, a timing unit 3, a calculator 4, a display unit 5, and a pairing interface 6.

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 interface 6 pairing enters the solar calculator 2, which simultaneously receives the exact time signal from the time unit 3. Solar calculator 2 calculates the ecliptic, equatorial and horizontal coordinates of the sun, the time of sunrise and sunset, azimuths of sunrise and sunset, longitude of the day, time top climax 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 sunrise time information to the inputs of calculator 4 and display unit 5Sunset for temporal and spatial coordinates of the point finding device. This information is visualized by the display unit 5. At the same time, the input of calculator 4 receives information about the current time from the time block 3. Calculator 4 in real time calculates the remaining time until dawn / sunset immediately after passing the "point" of dawn or sunset. In this case, the remaining time will be displayed on the screen with the difference between the times of sunrise and sunset and the current time.

Variants of information visualization are determined by the implementation of the display unit 5.

For example, using two arrows (FIG. 2), One arrow indicates sunrise, the other arrow respectively indicates 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.

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

When the execution unit 5 of the display in accordance with figure 3 and 4, the visualization of the moments of sunrise and sunset perform 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 arrow of sunset, and the boundary of the transition from the dark region to the bright region can be interpreted as an arrow showing the sunrise.

This embodiment of block 5 provides visualization of 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, 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 shown in FIG. 5 (as a consequence of the length of the night or day) 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 of sunset and sunrise, respectively, is located above and below the designation of the current time, and the time 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 below, and the time of sunset above and in reverse, if it is night.

FIG.2 - shows as an example the time of sunrise and sunset in Moscow on Aug 31. Where at 6 hours 31 minutes sunrise and 20 hours 27 minutes sunset. A window with the number 31 indicates that today is the 31st day of the month. The “AM” window indicates that the time shown by the clock is in the first twelve hours of the day (s), i.e. before lunch. The window with the numbers "09:17" shows how much time is left before sunset, namely 9 hours and 17 minutes.

FIG. 3 - The FIG. 3 clock shows the same as the FIG. 2 clock, with the exception that instead of the arrows here, transitions from the dark region to the light region (border) are used instead of the arrow indicating sunrise and transition from the light region to the dark ( border) instead of an arrow indicating sunset.

FIGURE 4 shows as an example the time of sunrise and sunset in Moscow on January 31, where at 9 hours 26 minutes sunrise and 18 hours 01 minutes sunset. A window with the number 31 indicates that today is the 31st day of the month. The “AM” window indicates that the time that the clock shows refers to the first twelve o'clock in the afternoon, i.e. before lunch. The window with the numbers "06:51" shows how much time is left before sunset, namely 6 hours and 51 minutes. As in FIG. 3, instead of the arrows here, transitions from the dark region to the light region (border) are used instead of the arrow to indicate sunrise and the transition from the bright region to the dark (border) instead of the arrow indicates sunset. Thus, in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the duration of the night and day is more clearly visualized, namely, it is clearly seen that the night in August is less than a day, and in January longer than a day.

Information can be displayed on watches and any other electronic watches, including portable electronic devices, such as: cell phones, tablet computers, laptops, communicators, etc.

Claims (1)

A clock with indication of day and night, containing a pairing interface, to which a navigator, a time unit, a solar calculator and a display unit are connected, characterized in that a calculator connected to the pairing interface is introduced therein.