Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a luminescent hand for a horological movement, preferably for a watch. The method includes providing a support comprising a light guide and structuring an emergent surface of the light guide so as to extract a maximum amount of light from the luminescent hand. The luminescent hand includes, over a lower face, a layer of luminescent material including one or more deposit(s) of fluorescent material, opposite a light source. The light source is laced at locations close to the axis of rotation or away from the axis of rotation but at a distance from the luminescent material. Thus, the light source is not placed on the luminescent hand.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a timepiece component comprising on at least one part of its surface a coating formed of one or more layers of organic pigments.
Abstract:
A watch includes a mechanical timepiece movement that includes at least one timepiece display device including a mobile timepiece component. The component transmits and diffuses light emitted by at least one light energy source included in the display device. The component is formed of a first material which is silica, or quartz, or single crystal quartz, or glass, or sapphire, or ceramic or material partially transparent to visible or ultraviolet wavelengths, or a transparent or translucent at least partially amorphous material, and of at least a second phosphorescent or fluorescent material applied in a thin layer to at least one of surfaces of the component. The light source, which is active or passive, injects light into one portion of the component which conveys and diffuses the light over at least one portion of the component, or throughout an entirety of the component, to make the component visible in the dark.
Abstract:
A process produces self-illuminating bodies, in which a recess is made in a housing part of a housing and a fluorescent and/or phosphorescent layer and/or a mask is arranged on a boundary wall of a cavity which is formed by joining the housing parts together. The housing parts are connected in a gastight manner, with at least one feed opening from outside into the cavity remaining open. Furthermore, a medium emitting decaying radiation is introduced through the at least one feed opening into the cavity, the decaying radiation being intended to illuminate the fluorescent and/or phosphorescent layer. Furthermore, a self-illuminating body and also the use thereof are specified.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a timepiece (1) fitted with a glass (3) having an inside face and an outside face to the timepiece and a lighting device (4) comprising at least one ultraviolet or infrared light-emitting diode (4a) to illuminate at least one zone (9) integrating fluorescent and/or phosphorescent pigments of an indicator element (7) visible through the glass, characterized in that the light-emitting diode is arranged on the periphery of the glass forming a waveguide capable of diffusing the ultraviolet or infrared light, and that means for diffusing ultraviolet or infrared light (12; 13; 15; 19; 20) from the glass towards the interior of the timepiece are arranged in the path of the ultraviolet or infrared light.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for a dual illumination watch face having a tritium gas tube coupled with a dial, minute hand or hour hand of the watch face, and phosphorescent material disposed with at least one of the dial, minute hand and hour hand.
Abstract:
There is provided a type of luminous hand including a part made of moulded transparent material that forms a circular head (28, 35) and a body (28, 34) of a hand. In order to direct a portion of a light beam parallel to the axis (15) of the hand towards the interior of the body, the head includes a plurality of reflectors (40, 41) distributed around the axis and formed by dihedron shaped hollows. This improves the intensity and uniformity of the light in the hand body. Inclined light-diffusing surfaces, covered with a light coloured paint, are arranged on the bottom face of the hand. In a display device with several coaxial hands (11,12) such as that of a watch, the reflectors of the superposed heads (29, 35) of the hands are located at respective distances from the axis which are different from one hand to another, such that they never completely cover each other. The light source preferably includes three light-emitting diodes (23) located under the dial (10). A cylindrical light guide (18) is placed between the source and the heads of the hands, in the central opening in the dial.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a display device for a wristwatch comprising a luminescent surface for illuminating the background of a display element consisting of one or more alphanumeric characters. The display device comprises a window in an opaque watch face in which these characters can be displayed. The luminescent surface covers at least one partial area of a supporting surface situated behind said window. The alphanumeric characters of the display element have an opaque material and are located between the watch face and the luminescent surface.
Abstract:
Dial (2) designed to equip a watch piece provided with luminous marks (32) lodged under a mother-of-pearl semi-transparent layer (20) inside blind hollows (35) made in the semi-transparent layer (20) and filled with a phosphorescent pigment (32). The luminous marks (32) form an image (61) visible in darkness and essentially invisible in daylight.
Abstract:
An electroluminescent (EL) lamp for an electronic device includes a transparent substrate having a first and a second surface, a translucent layer formed on the first surface and a transparent electrically conductive layer formed on the second surface of the transparent substrate. The translucent layer includes a surface having a selected surface configuration. The EL lamp further includes an EL layer formed on the transparent conductive layer, an insulating layer formed on the EL layer, and an electrically conductive layer formed on the insulating layer. In one embodiment, the selected surface configuration of the translucent layer includes a metallic finish. In another embodiment, the selected surface configuration includes either a coarse or a smooth textured finish. A method of manufacturing the EL lamp is also disclosed.