RU2685764C1 - Clock with time indication on mars - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: watches and other time measuring instruments.SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of watchmaking, to clock mechanisms with pointer indication of time, and more specifically to complicated mechanisms of clock mechanisms with additional indication functions on the clock of current time on Mars. Essence: analogue clock for indication of Martian time comprises body, clock mechanism and dial, at that clock mechanism additionally contains reduction gear consisting of two coaxial gear wheels fixed to each other either rigidly or frictionally, wherein the reduction gearbox provides the conversion of the speed of the switch gear rotation to the rotation speed of the mechanism which displays the average Martian solar time. At that, in the method of indicating Martian time, the delay of the solar Martian days from solar earth days is compensated by using a reduction gear consisting of two gear wheels in an analogue clock.EFFECT: high accuracy of indicating Martian time, as well as simple design of the clock and reduced dimensions thereof with simultaneous increase in the reliability of the clock by eliminating complex multielement mechanisms.15 cl, 6 dwg

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The invention relates to the field of clock technology, to clockwork with an arrow indication of time, and, more specifically, to clockwork mechanisms of a complicated type with additional display functions on the clock of the current time on Mars.

The level of technology.

It is known that a manned flight to Mars is a planned manned flight to Mars with the help of a manned spacecraft. Roscosmos, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced their mission to Mars in the 21st century.

Mars, unlike Earth, has a very weak magnetic field, approximately 500 times weaker than Earth's, therefore during solar flares, the surface of Mars is exposed to strong plasma irradiation. The consequence of this may be a failure of electronic devices, in particular, electronic watches, as electronic watches are poorly protected from the effects of electromagnetic fields and for this reason can be disabled.

In contrast to the electronic clock, the mechanical clock is completely autonomous and not affected by cosmic radiation. That is why the creation of clocks with time indication, intended for use on Mars, is the most important task for future space travelers.

It is known that Sol is a Martian sunny day, the duration of which is 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35.244 seconds, which corresponds to 88775.244 seconds in a day. Recall that on Earth, the average duration of solar days is approximately 24 hours, which corresponds to 86400 seconds.

The prior art attempts to create clocks that show both Earth and Martian time. So famous NASA Dual Earth and Mars Time Watch (http://iamthebatteryhuman.tumblr.com/post/17487296201/ianbrooks-nasa-dual-earth-and-mars-time-watch). In the well-known watch, the adjustment, the deceleration of the hours by 39 minutes per day, was made by changing the frequency of the regulator, namely, by means of a complex adjustment of the balance-helix system in the mechanical clock, and by making changes to the quartz oscillator in the quartz watch.

The disadvantage is the complicated manual adjustment of the clock and in the case of a mechanical clock that shows the time simultaneously on both Mars and Earth, then a complex clock mechanism will be required, containing two wheeled systems, two release controllers or two mechanisms in one case. This not only complicates the design of watches, but also significantly increases their dimensions.

Task and technical result

The task and the technical result of the claimed invention is to improve the accuracy of the Martian time indication, as well as to simplify the design of watches and reduce their dimensions while simultaneously increasing the reliability of watches by eliminating complex multi-element mechanisms.

Summary of Invention

The problem is solved, and the required technical result when using the invention is achieved by the fact that the analog clock for indicating Martian time contains a case, a clock mechanism and a dial, and the clock mechanism additionally contains a gearbox consisting of two coaxial gear wheels fixed with each other rigidly or frictionally The reducer provides conversion of the rotation speed of the switch element into the rotation speed of the mechanism reflecting the average Martian solar time.

In this case, the switch element can be one of the elements of the switch mechanism, for example, a minute tribe, an hour wheel, a bill tribe, a bill wheel.

In this case, the minute tribe interacts with the gearbox and with its help transmits motion to the minute tributary of Martian time.

In addition, the mechanism reflecting the average Martian solar time can be made in the form of a switch mechanism of Martian time and consist of a minute tribe of Martian time, a bill of exchange wheel of Martian time, a bill of exchange tribe of Martian time and an hour wheel of Martian time.

In this case, the gear ratio of the gearbox is not less than 1.027523.

Also, the gear ratio of the gearbox can be obtained by the number of teeth of the gearbox wheels equal to 112 and 109 or multiples of them.

In this case, the watch can be both mechanical and quartz.

In addition, the clock mechanism can be any standard basic clock mechanism.

In this case, the dial mechanism can be any used in the watch technique.

In addition, the clock mechanism can be a 12 or 24 hour display.

In this case, the mechanism that reflects the average Martian solar time can be a switch, a disk, or retrograde, or a sector one.

At the same time, hours, to indicate Martian time, can display both Martian hours and minutes, and only hours or minutes only.

In addition to this clock, to indicate the Martian time can display both the Martian time and the Earth and Martian time simultaneously.

In addition to the clock, to indicate the Martian time may contain any other additional known functions.

The problem is solved, and the required technical result when using the invention is achieved in that in the method of indicating the Martian time, the lag of solar Martian days from solar Earth days is compensated by using a gearbox consisting of two gear wheels in an analog clock.

Brief Description of the Drawings

Structurally, in the preferred, but not the only mandatory, embodiment, the inventive Martian time indicating device includes the following details:

1 - Case

2 - Dial time display on Earth

3 - Hour hand indicating the time on Earth

4 - Minute Time Indicator on Earth

5 - Dial display time on Mars

6 - Martian time scale

7 - Minute hand indicating the time on Mars

8 - Hour hand displaying time on Mars

9 - Gear wheel with 112 teeth

10 - Gear wheel with 109 teeth

11 - Minute Tribe

12 - Bill of exchange

13 - Bill Tribe

14 - Hour wheel

15 - Minute of the Martian time

16 - Martian time bill of exchange

17 - Martian time bill of exchange

18 - Martian time clock wheel

FIG. Figure 1 shows the appearance of a watch with a Martian time indicator, where the main dial has a 24-hour Earth time scale and 24 additional Martian time scales. At the same time, the watch contains case 1, main dial 2, hour 3 and minute 4 Earth time hands, additional dial 5, Martian time scale 6, hour 8 and minute 7 Martian time.

FIG. 2 shows a variant of the appearance of a watch with a Martian time indicator, where the main dial has a 12-hour Earth time scale and 24 additional Martian time scales. At the same time, the watch contains case 1, main dial 2, hour 3 and minute 4 Earth time hands, additional dial 5, Martian time scale 6, hour 8 and minute 7 Martian time.

FIG. 3 shows a variant of the appearance of a clock with a pointer only of Martian time. At the same time, the watch contains a watch dial with a Martian time scale of 6, an hour 8 and a minute 7 Martian time hand.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a clock mechanism with an indication of Martian time.

FIG. 5 shows the structural-functional diagram of the clock mechanism according to the invention, which includes a clock mechanism, a Martian time indication mechanism, a Martian time indication means.

FIG. 6 shows a functional diagram of the clock variant with simultaneous indication of the Earth and Martian time.

The implementation of the invention

As noted above, the applicant has developed a device and method that allows for the least cost for piece and small-scale production to ensure the manufacture of watches, made with the possibility of simultaneous indication of time on Earth and on Mars. At the same time, on Earth, the indicated clocks can be either mechanically or quartz. At the same time, as a basis for such watches, any standardly produced clock mechanism can be taken. That is, the basic clock mechanism and the switch system can be practically any of those known and used in the watch technique when they perform their normal clock functions. In addition, the clock mechanism can be executed for both the 12-hour display and the 24-hour display.

As shown in figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, the claimed invention can be made in the form of clocks of a complicated type, which provide the possibility of simultaneous indication of the current time on Earth and the current time on Mars. Since the daily Earth time is less than the daily Martian time, to convert the angular velocity of rotation of the output shafts of the base clock mechanism (second, minute, hour) to the angular velocity to ensure the rotation of the Martian time indicators, it is proposed to use a gearbox.

As shown in FIG. 4, in the preferred embodiment, the gearbox is two wheels that are coaxial and fixed fixedly or frictionally relative to each other with the number of teeth 112 and 109 or multiples thereof (the indicated wheels are marked with 9 and 10 in the drawing).

Martian time display means is designed to indicate time on Mars and can be performed by any known method, including arrow, disk, retrograde and other methods of indication, and also, if necessary, contains a switch mechanism, for example, to convert the speed of rotation of the minute axis to hourly.

A device for implementing the method in general is a clock mechanism with a Martian time indicating device.

As shown in FIG. 4, in one of the possible embodiments of the invention, a minute hand 4 indicating the time on Earth is placed on the minute tribe of the 11th hour mechanism; an hour hand 3 indicating the time on the Earth is placed on the hub of the hour wheel 14. The movement from the minute tribe 11 to the hour wheel 14 is transmitted through the bill tribe 13 and the bill wheel 12. In addition, from the minute tribe 11, the rotational movement is transmitted to the gearbox, consisting of two gear wheels 9 and 10. Tribe 11 interacts with the gear wheel 9, having 112 teeth and transmits it to him. In turn, the gearbox wheel 9, which has 112 teeth, is made coaxial with the gearbox wheel 10, which has 109 teeth. Further, from the gearbox wheel 10, the motion is transmitted to the 15 minute martian time tribe. In turn, the minute hand 7 of the time indication on Mars is placed on the minute tributary of 15 Martian time. Movement from the 15-minute Martian Tribe time is transmitted to the Marx 16 bill time wheel, in which the Martian Tribe bill is co-axially pressed 17 Martian time, and from the Marx 16 bill time note, the motion is transmitted to the Martian time clock wheel 18, on the axis of which the hour hand 8 is mounted. on Mars.

The present invention proposes to add an additional switch transmission, which allows the rotational speed of a minute tribe, an hour wheel or any other switch element to be converted into a rotational speed closest to the rotational time, minutes and seconds needed in the salts (solar day).

As was noted above, it was established by calculations that the gearbox required to change the torque should contain two coaxially fixed wheels, one of which has 112 teeth (or a multiple of it), and the second has 109 teeth (or a multiple of it). That is, the wheels are aligned with each other and rigidly connected, while they have a gear ratio of 112/109 = 1.027523.

Thus, when using this reducer, we get 86400 × 1.027523 = 88777, 9 seconds per day, which is only 2.7 seconds longer than the average solar sol. Since the error of the most accurate mechanical wristwatches, chronometers, varies from -4 +6 seconds per day, which is higher than this error, this device can be used in the most high-precision mechanical watches.

Here, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 5 in order to display only the Martian time on the clock, it is necessary to abandon the dial gauges that display the Earth time. In this case, the interaction of the gearbox containing two gears 9 and 10 wheels with minute tribe 11 will also provide the transfer of motion to the minute tribe of 15 Martian time, which in turn will transmit motion to the bill wheel 16 and further to the hour wheel 18 via bill of exchange 17.

Thus, by means of a simple gear mechanism without the additional complication of the clock mechanism, the high accuracy of the Martian time indication on the mechanical clock will be ensured.

This ensures the achievement of the required technical result, namely, increasing the accuracy of the Martian time indication, as well as simplifying the design of watches and reducing their dimensions while simultaneously increasing the reliability of watches by eliminating complex multi-element mechanisms.

Considering the novelty of the set of essential features, the technical solution of the task, the inventive step and the materiality of all the general and particular features of the invention, proved in the section “Prior art” and “The disclosure of the invention”, proved in the section “Implementation and industrial realization of the invention” technical feasibility and industrial applicability inventions, solving inventive problems and confidently achieving the required technical result when implementing and using the invention In our opinion, the claimed group of inventions satisfies all the patentability requirements for inventions.

The analysis also shows that all the general and particular features of the invention are essential, since each of them is necessary, and together they are not only sufficient to achieve the goal of the invention, but also allow the invention to be implemented industrially.

Claims (15)

1. Analog clock for indicating Martian time, comprising a case, a clock mechanism and a dial, characterized in that the clock mechanism additionally contains a gearbox consisting of two coaxial gear wheels fixed with each other rigidly or frictionally, and the gearbox provides conversion of the speed of rotation of the arrow element transmission to the speed of rotation of the mechanism, which reflects the average Martian solar time. 2. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the switch element can be one of the elements of the switch mechanism, for example, a minute tribe, an hour wheel, a bill tribune, a bill wheel. 3. Analog clock according to claim 2, characterized in that the minute tribe interacts with the gearbox and with its help transmits motion to the minute tributary of Martian time. 4. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the mechanism reflecting the average Martian solar time can be made in the form of a switch mechanism of the Martian time and consist of a minute tribe of Martian time, a bill wheel of the Martian time, a bill tribune of the Martian time and the hour wheel of the Martian of time. 5. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the gear ratio of the gearbox is at least 1.027523. 6. Analog clock according to claim 5, characterized in that the gear ratio of the gearbox can be obtained by the number of gear teeth of the gearbox, equal to 112 and 109, or a multiple of them. 7. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the clock can be both mechanical and quartz. 8. The analogue clock according to claim. 1, characterized in that the clock mechanism may be any standard basic clock mechanism. 9. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the dial mechanism can be any used in the watch technique. 10. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the clock mechanism can be a 12- or 24-hour display. 11. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the mechanism that reflects the average Martian solar time can be a pointer, disk, or retrograde, or sector. 12. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the clock for indicating Martian time can display both Martian hours and minutes, and only hours or minutes only. 13. Analog clock according to claim 1, characterized in that the clock for indicating the Martian time can display both the Martian time and the Earth and Martian time simultaneously. 14. The analog clock according to claim 13, wherein the clock for indicating Martian time may contain any other additional known functions. 15. The method of indication of the Martian time, in which the lag of solar Martian days from solar Earth days is compensated for by using in analogue clock according to claim 1 a reducer consisting of two gear wheels.

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