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公开(公告)号:US11619910B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-04
申请号:US16572996
申请日:2019-09-17
发明人: Lionel Tombez , Laurent Nagy , Alexandre Haemmerli
摘要: A timepiece includes a mechanical oscillator, formed by a balance and a piezoelectric balance spring, and a control device for controlling the frequency of the mechanical oscillator. This control device is arranged to be capable of generating time-separated control pulses, each including a momentary decrease in an electrical resistance applied by the control device between two electrodes of the piezoelectric balance spring relative to a nominal electrical resistance. The control device is arranged to be capable of applying a plurality of control pulses during each time of a series of distinct correction times or without interruption in a continuous time window, in order to respectively synchronize the mechanical oscillator at a correction frequency whose value depends on a detected positive or negative temporal drift or at a desired frequency for the mechanical oscillator.
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公开(公告)号:US10985679B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-20
申请号:US16687803
申请日:2019-11-19
摘要: A continuously rotating electric motor includes a rotor provided with permanent magnets and a stator formed by two coils in which, when the rotor is rotating, two induced voltage signals (UB1 and UB2) are respectively generated, which signals have an electric phase shift φ where 5°≤φ≤90°, preferably 30°
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公开(公告)号:US11703808B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-18
申请号:US17169633
申请日:2021-02-08
发明人: Jérôme Favre , Lionel Paratte , Laurent Nagy , Jean-Jacques Born
IPC分类号: G04C21/06
CPC分类号: G04C21/06
摘要: A watch includes a striking mechanism, including an attached gong (4) and a hammer (15), as well as a battery (6) and an integrated circuit (7) powered by the battery and configured to produce current pulses, and an electrodynamic actuator (17) which is connected to the integrated circuit and configured to receive said pulses, the actuator being integral with the hammer or connected to the hammer to generate in response to the pulses a movement of the hammer from a rest position thereof, the movement being able to actuate an impact of the hammer on the gong. The mechanism also includes a spring (27) connected to the hammer so as to return the hammer to its rest position after the impact. Depending on particular embodiments, the hammer undergoes one or more pre-oscillations before reaching the impact. The hammer and the gong may be provided with attracting magnets.
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公开(公告)号:US11644797B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-09
申请号:US16896579
申请日:2020-06-09
发明人: Gianni Di Domenico , Jérôme Favre , Olivier Matthey , Dominique Lechot , Baptiste Hinaux , Laurent Nagy , Jean-Claude Martin
摘要: Inertia mobile component (1) for a horological resonator (100), oscillating about an axis of oscillation (D1), and including at least one magnetic area (10), the total resultant magnetic moment of all of the magnetic areas (10), included in the inertia mobile component (1), is aligned in the direction of the axis of oscillation (D1), this inertia mobile component (1) bearing at least one magnetic compensating element (4), the magnetisation component thereof in a direction perpendicular to the axis of oscillation (D1) can be adjusted in order to obtain a total resultant magnetic moment that is aligned in the direction of the axis of oscillation (D1).
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公开(公告)号:US11599064B2
公开(公告)日:2023-03-07
申请号:US16896613
申请日:2020-06-09
发明人: Gianni Di Domenico , Jérôme Favre , Olivier Matthey , Dominique Lechot , Baptiste Hinaux , Laurent Nagy , Jean-Claude Martin
摘要: Horological resonator (100) including an inertia mobile component (1) oscillating about an axis of oscillation (D1) and including at least one magnetic area (10), the total resultant magnetic moment of all of the magnetic areas (10), included in the inertia mobile component (1), is aligned in the direction of the axis of oscillation (D1), this inertia mobile component (1) bearing at least one balancing magnet (6), the direction of the magnetic moment thereof crosses the axis of oscillation (D1) to obtain magnetic balancing of the inertia mobile component (1).
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公开(公告)号:US20210311437A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-07
申请号:US17169633
申请日:2021-02-08
发明人: Jérôme Favre , Lionel Paratte , Laurent Nagy , Jean-Jacques Born
IPC分类号: G04C21/06
摘要: A watch includes a striking mechanism, including an attached gong (4) and a hammer (15), as well as a battery (6) and an integrated circuit (7) powered by the battery and configured to produce current pulses, and an electrodynamic actuator (17) which is connected to the integrated circuit and configured to receive said pulses, the actuator being integral with the hammer or connected to the hammer to generate in response to the pulses a movement of the hammer from a rest position thereof, the movement being able to actuate an impact of the hammer on the gong. The mechanism also includes a spring (27) connected to the hammer so as to return the hammer to its rest position after the impact. Depending on particular embodiments, the hammer undergoes one or more pre-oscillations before reaching the impact. The hammer and the gong may be provided with attracting magnets.
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公开(公告)号:US11012014B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-18
申请号:US16671408
申请日:2019-11-01
摘要: A motor drive unit for driving a direct current electric motor including a moving part equipped with permanent magnets. The motor drive unit, which is powered by a voltage supply source, includes a switch circuit, an inductor circuit and a capacitor circuit including a set of capacitors. By selectively opening and closing the switches of the switch circuit, a series of consecutive low energy pulses can be generated such that the power consumption of the motor drive circuit is minimized.
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公开(公告)号:US11892807B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-06
申请号:US16854041
申请日:2020-04-21
发明人: Jean-Jacques Born , Laurent Nagy
摘要: A method for measuring the medium frequency of a digital signal derived from a reference periodic signal generated by an electronic oscillator (quartz oscillator) forming a timepiece (2) which includes an analogue time display device and a continuous rotation electromechanical transducer (generator or continuous rotation motor) which is kinematically linked to this display device and wherein the medium rotational speed is regulated by a regulation device. The medium frequency of the digital signal is determined by a measurement device (70) without galvanic contact with the movement of the timepiece. The measurement method makes it possible to determine the rate of the timepiece and the precision of the electronic oscillator based on regulation impulses detected by a magnetic sensor (72) and over a measurement period limited to the duration of an inhibition cycle of periods of the reference periodic signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11415946B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-16
申请号:US16354217
申请日:2019-03-15
发明人: Laurent Nagy , Alexandre Haemmerli , Lionel Tombez
摘要: A timepiece includes a mechanical oscillator, formed by a balance and a piezoelectric balance spring, and a regulating device for regulating the frequency of the mechanical oscillator which is arranged to be able to produce time-separated regulating pulses, each consisting of a momentary decrease in an electrical resistance applied by the regulating device between two electrodes of the balance spring relative to a nominal electrical resistance. Each regulating pulse produces a variation of rate which varies as a function of its moment of starting in a half-period of the mechanical oscillator, the characteristic function of this variation of rate relative to the moment of starting of at least one regulating pulse respectively in at least one half-period of the mechanical oscillator being negative in a first temporal zone of at least one half-period and positive in a second temporal zone of at least one half-period.
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公开(公告)号:US11063537B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-13
申请号:US16656848
申请日:2019-10-18
摘要: The present invention concerns a method of controlling a rotational speed of a rotor (3) of a direct current electric motor (1) comprising an inductor circuit (A, B) for rotating the rotor, which is configured to rotate continuously and is equipped with permanent magnets. The method comprises: measuring the rotational speed of the rotor; determining a time drift in the rotor rotation compared to a reference signal; defining N speed thresholds with at least one being a variable speed threshold depending on the determined time drift, the N speed thresholds defining N+1 rotational speed ranges for the rotor; determining in which one of the N+1 rotational speed ranges the determined rotational speed of the rotor is; and finally selecting an action relative to the control of the inductor circuit, based on the determined rotational speed range, for controlling the rotational speed of the rotor.
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