Abstract:
A solid state watch with electrooptic display employs digital indication of hours and 12 radial markers for indication of minutes. First and second markers are advanced as well as modulated in varying timed relationship with respect to one another, so as to give an indication of the degree of passage of time during 5 minute intervals.
Abstract:
A digital electronic timepiece has numeric display means for selectively displaying the time and a number representing the day of the week. In one position of a display selection switch, the display means displays hours and minutes. In another position of the display selection switch, the date and a number representing the day of the week are displayed by the same display elements as those displaying time. Display indicators controlled by the display selection switch indicate what is displayed by the display means.
Abstract:
Instead of having separate digital display means for seconds, minutes, hours, dates and months, an electronic timepiece uses the same liquid crystal display and differentiates between seconds, minutes, hours, dates and months by displaying each in a different color. This makes it possible to have the timepiece smaller and at the same time have the individual digits of the display larger and hence more easily legible. The different colors of the display are obtained by using a plurality of driving voltages for the liquid crystal display device and switching circuitry for applying the different drive voltages to the liquid crystal device according to whether seconds, minutes, hours, dates or months is to be displayed.
Abstract:
In an instrument adapted to be worn on the wrist including a power source, a display, means for illuminating or activating the display and actuating means for connecting the power source to the illuminating or activating means to energize the same, the improvement wherein the actuating means comprises either an inertia actuated switch means operative in the presence of a deliberate, rapid acceleration and/or deceleration of the wrist having a predetermined minimum magnitude and/or a pressure actuated switch means operative in the presence of pressure applied thereto by the wrist for momentarily connecting the power source to the illuminating or activating means.
Abstract:
An electronic watch having an electrochromic display in which the transparent electrode pattern of minute hands is formed on one plate of the display, while the pattern for the hour hands is formed on the other plate of the display. A counter electrode to the hour and minute hands is provided outside the field of vision. In this way realistic simulation of the passage of one hand over the other is obtained. A control logic system is provided for sequentially activating and setting the hands to a particular indication of time information.
Abstract:
A digital read-out display type of electric clock or alarm clock uses back projection of light as a means of displaying numerals representing the time in hours, minutes, and seconds upon a front screen. Means are provided to shut off the light projection when the numerals are altered, and the alteration of numerals is carried out in a fraction of a second.
Abstract:
An electric alarm clock has an hour wheel which can move axially to engage with several teeth in an alarm-hour setting wheel and make an electrical contact therewith by means of a protruding metallic tongue on a conductive plate mounted on the nonconductive hour-wheel. This tongue makes a brief contact until further rotation of the hour wheel allows it to drop into the hole and open the circuit for the alarm. A second pair of contacts in series with the first-mentioned pair is closable on axial shifting of the hour-wheel into the alarm wheel. A contactbreaking arm of nonconductive material can be pushed between these second contacts and is clamped by them there until the hour-wheel is automatically cammed out of and away from the alarm wheel, whereupon the contact-breaking arm is released. Depression of a button on the clock lights a lamp for illuminating the clock dial face and can shift the contact-breaking arm toward the second contacts to open same. Means is provided to prevent pivoting of the contact-breaking arm between the contacts except when the teeth of the hour-wheel are engaged fully in the holes in the alarm wheel.
Abstract:
A TIMEPIECE DIAL OF TRANSLUCENT MATERIAL HAS A LIGHT SOURCE SUCH AS AN INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LIGHT IN THE MATERIAL OF THE DIAL WHICH ILLUMINATED TO SHOW THE HOUR MARKERS IN RELIEF. THE DIAL PREFERABLY HAS INTERNAL RE-
FRACTING SURFACES TO REFRACT LIGHT THROUGH THE PART BEARING THE HOUR MARKERS.