Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
  • G04G9/00—Visual time or date indication means
  • G04G9/0082—Visual time or date indication means by building-up characters using a combination of indicating elements and by selecting desired characters out of a number of characters or by selecting indicating elements the positions of which represents the time, i.e. combinations of G04G9/02 and G04G9/08
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
  • G07C1/22—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people in connection with sports or games
  • G07C1/28—Indicating playing time

Definitions

• the invention relates to a chess clock which, as an electronic chess clock, preferably has two analog time display devices, shift and actuation keys for each player and an electronic control of the time measurement for different seasons.
• clockworks consist of a quartz-controlled electronic time module for different times for normal games as well as for flash chess games, whereby the dial can have different distances for different types of games.
• Each time display device is associated with a case hand, which is arranged on the dial and dimensioned so that it is raised before reaching the 12 o'clock position of the minute hand and held until it falls from the tip of the minute hand as soon as the 12 o'clock Position has reached. Because no exact coordination
• ERSA ⁇ ZBL ⁇ (RULE 25) is possible between minute and case hands and therefore there are considerable inaccuracies in the players' thinking time and their equal opportunities, the case pointer has been assigned a locking mechanism with a pulse counter. A release impulse for the locking should enable a more exact time display.
• the disadvantage is the high electromechanical outlay for this locking device and thus its slight susceptibility to malfunction.
• Game time display allow the display of the remaining game time taking into account game time additions or time deductions in a directly readable form.
• Such solutions are e.g. described in detail in the patents DE 34 27 433 AI, DE 38 20 915 AI and NL 93 00 805.
• the digital displays are also provided for recognizing the end of the season.
• these time display devices provide information about the used or still available cooling time, which is displayed precisely, they are particularly difficult to read at a glance, especially for the last minutes of the game. Since the moves in flash chess are to be carried out quickly one after the other, an optically quick and precise time display is required.
• Analog and digital display of the playing time takes place according to patent specification FR 26 85 502, which includes a version with both displays.
• FR 26 85 502 the digital and analog time display are visible in parallel and are time-synchronized with the aid of a microprocessor control. It is also possible to quickly adjust the pointers using a series of pulses
• ERS ⁇ ZBL ⁇ T (RULE 26) to apply predetermined positions and to enable a quick pointer adjustment of the analog display to the start time.
• the digital display enables additional information to be displayed, preferably the date, time, number of moves and the time that has passed since the start of the game.
• this known chess clock is extremely versatile due to digital and analog time display and the display of further information for the game sequence via a microprocessor control, which implements the commands of the function keys, it has disadvantages in the display of the last game section. This is in no way highlighted by the player. So these watches are not advantageous for their use in rapid or flash chess.
• the object of the present invention is to develop a chess clock which, due to its structure, displays the playing time in parallel in an analog pointer display and in a digital display and optimally displays the playing time end, primarily the last part of the game and the direct end of the game by falling papers enables.
• this object is achieved by one of two analogue time displays, an electronic control circuit, a digital time display and two
• ERS ⁇ ZBLA ⁇ (RULE 26) According to the invention, a different colored display of the game duration, the last minute of the game and the end of the game time.
• a program board by means of further switching devices and function keys, an electronic program selection for different types of game or game or
• the digital playing time displays of the chess clock according to the invention consist of liquid crystal displays and have an hour, minute, second digital display for the remaining playing time of both players.
• analog time displays of the chess clock according to the invention are designed as a clockwork mechanism and have a minute-step circuit.
• the analog leaflet drop indicator consisting of falling leaflets, is arranged in such a way that when the minute hand is moved, it drops exactly in the 60th second immediately after the last minute step of the game time and thus immediately shows the end of the game time.
• the sequence of the last section of the game is of essential importance for the fast optical detection for the players and is illustrated by the electronic leaflet displays, represented according to the invention as graphic diagrams.
• REPLACEMENT BLA ⁇ (RULE 26) Falling papers can be designed as different diagrams, such as column, pie or line diagrams, but preferably as bar diagrams.
• Each digital playing time display for the remaining playing time and analogue playing time display for the activated playing time are time-synchronized for a player via a microprocessor of the electronic control circuit.
• each electronic leaflet drop indicator for the last game section and the end of the game time is switched in time-synchronized fashion with the analog leaflet drop indicator for the end of the game time for each player via the microprocessor of the electronic control circuit.
• the end of the game can be signaled twice for each player through the exact timing of the last section of the game and the immediate display of the end of the game.
• the successive extinction of the segments of the diagram field and the extinction of the last segment in the field of the bar diagram are clearly visible at the same time as the fall pointer falls at the end of the season.
• the light signal displays of the chess clock can display colored light signals for each player via a light-emitting diode, which preferably indicates the activated playing time in one color (green), the last game section in a second color (yellow) and a third color (red) signal the end of the season.
• the light signal displays can be switched on and off via switches.
• the chess clock according to the invention also has, in addition to the known main operating buttons for the players, further switching devices which, according to a program board on the back of the watch housing, enable the selection of different game programs or rules via function buttons.
• the hands of each analog game time display can be automatically adjusted to predetermined positions by the electronic control circuit in accordance with the respective game program requirements.
• the last time status of each set game program when the game is interrupted can be set and reactivated as an energy-saving stand-by state via an actuating device, so that the last program setting is always retained when the clock is switched off.
• the structure of the chess clock according to the invention has significant advantages with regard to its functions and its operation. For the players, it enables a more precise, clearer and optically clearer time control thanks to the electronically controlled analog and time-synchronized digital game time and leaflet displays.
• Fall pointer displays provide the player and referee with clearly recognizable information from the last section of the game and indicate the end of the game time to the second. In this way, regardless of mechanical inaccuracies, the sequence of the last section of the game and the last second of the game are signaled exactly.
• the various game programs can be set by means of a program board and function keys via the electronic program selection. All known thinking time and bonus time variants can be created using this program selection.
• the pointers show the activated seasons, the bonus times appear on the digital LCD display for the real remaining seasons.
• FIG. 1 the front view as an overall view with analog and digital playing time displays, analog and electronic leaflet displays.
• FIG. 2 the back according to FIG. 1
• Figure 3 the front view as an overall view with analog and digital game time displays, electronic leaflet displays
• Figure 4 the back of Figure 3
• Figure 5 the circuit diagram for digital
• Playtime displays and electronic leaflet drop displays on the display Figure 6 the analog leaflet drop display according to Figure 1.
• the chess clock according to the invention is described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 as an exemplary embodiment. she
• REPLACEMENT BLA ⁇ (RULE 26) consists essentially of the known components of the analog game time display 4, ie of two clock movements, of the known main actuation buttons 5 for the players, of an electronic control circuit with a microprocessor and of various electronic digital display fields for controlling the course of the game. All mechanical and electronic components are housed in one housing.
• the analog pointer displays 4 which have a minute-step switching of the analog-electronic pointer time display and, according to the selected program according to program field 13, display the activated program playing time
• the watch has a digital playing time display 3 for each player as a liquid crystal display for displaying the remaining playing time in hours - minutes - seconds. According to FIG. 1, this digital playing time display 3 is preferably arranged above the analog playing time display 4.
• the chess clock according to FIG. 1 has an analog leaflet display 2 for each player for the exact and clear representation of the last section of the game, preferably the last minute of the game
• These analog leaflet fall indicators 2 with the mechanical falling leaflets are arranged in such a way that they fall exactly in the 60th second immediately after the last minute step has been carried out by moving the minute hands 11 of each pointer display 4.
• the electronic leaflet drop indicators 1 are in the form of so-called bar diagrams according to FIG. 1 below the pointer indicators 4 and show the course of the last game section, preferably the last minute of the game, divided into individual segments for one or more seconds each.
• the bar graphs of the electronic leaflet display 1 are in individual
• REPLACEMENT BLA ⁇ (RULE 26) Segments, preferably subdivided for every second or every third second, and can be designed in different colors and / or light-dark gradations.
• the consumption of the last minute of the game is shown graphically and / or optically by the electronic bar diagrams by gradually deleting individual segments in the field of each diagram, for example in discrete seconds.
• the disappearance of the last segment of the bar graph can also be signaled by lighting up (flashing) the entire field of leaflets and / or a light emitting diode display 9 as the end of the playing time.
• each analogue playing time display 4 for the activated playing time is time-synchronized with the corresponding digital playing time display 3 for the remaining playing time and each electronic leaflet drop display 1 for the last minute of the game and the end of the playing time with the analog leaflet falling display 2 for the end of the playing time via a microprocessor of the electronic control circuit 6 are switched on, the end of the playing time is also indicated optically to the second by deleting the last segment in the field of each bar diagram and at exactly the same time by dropping the leaf falling pointer 2 on the dial of the pointer display 4 in the last second.
• each player it is possible for each player to have a light signal indicator 9 (FIG. 3) using a light-emitting diode to display colored light signals, so that a player's active pointer indicator 4 preferably indicates the activated playing time by a green indicator light 9, the last stage of the game signaled by a yellow signal indicator 9 and the end of the game by a red signal indicator 9.
• a light signal indicator 9 FIG. 3
• a player's active pointer indicator 4 preferably indicates the activated playing time by a green indicator light 9, the last stage of the game signaled by a yellow signal indicator 9 and the end of the game by a red signal indicator 9.
• the digital playing time display 3 provides information on the progress of the used up playing time, that is, counts down and always shows the remaining playing time of each player, taking into account bonus times.
• the light signal display 9 can be switched on and off via switch 10.
• FIGS. 2 and 5 show that the chess clock according to the invention has 5 further switching devices 8 as function keys in addition to the main operating keys, in order, inter alia, to to select an active game program from a large number of different game programs according to program board 13 on the back of the watch case (FIG. 2).
• the selected activated program can be read on the program display 7 on the front of the clock.
• Program board 13 the hands of each analog game time display 4 are automatically and electronically set electronically to the intended game position by the electronic control circuit 6 (FIG. 5), and the associated digital game time display 3 immediately and synchronously shows the total remaining game time.
• an automatic quick pointer adjustment to a new start time is possible.
• REPLACEMENT BLA ⁇ (RULE 26) graphically and / or optically.
• FIGS. 3 and 5 show an embodiment of the clock in which the program display 7, the digital time display 3 and the electronic leaflet display 1 together represent an electronic display 12.
• the programmable electronics maintain the synchronicity between the pointer display and the electronic display.
• the combination according to the invention of optically quickly ascertainable analog time displays and the exact information of digital time representation accurate to the second is possible, which also enables the active programmable game programs for chess to be expanded.

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