EP0321413A1 - Pulse meter watch - Google Patents

Pulse meter watch Download PDF

Info

Publication number
EP0321413A1
EP0321413A1 EP88810864A EP88810864A EP0321413A1 EP 0321413 A1 EP0321413 A1 EP 0321413A1 EP 88810864 A EP88810864 A EP 88810864A EP 88810864 A EP88810864 A EP 88810864A EP 0321413 A1 EP0321413 A1 EP 0321413A1
Authority
EP
European Patent Office
Prior art keywords
series
indexes
dial
sector
watch
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
EP88810864A
Other languages
German (de)
French (fr)
Other versions
EP0321413B1 (en
Inventor
Bernard Commenoz
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
ULYCLOD SA
Original Assignee
ULYCLOD SA
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by ULYCLOD SA filed Critical ULYCLOD SA
Publication of EP0321413A1 publication Critical patent/EP0321413A1/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of EP0321413B1 publication Critical patent/EP0321413B1/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/06—Dials
    • G04B19/10—Ornamental shape of the graduations or the surface of the dial; Attachment of the graduations to the dial
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/04—Hands; Discs with a single mark or the like
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/28—Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/30—Illumination of dials or hands
    • G04B19/32—Illumination of dials or hands by luminescent substances
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
    • G04F1/00—Apparatus which can be set and started to measure-off predetermined or adjustably-fixed time intervals without driving mechanisms, e.g. egg timers

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a watch, or pendulum, intended for the calculation of short times, less than a minute, and not requiring better precision than the second.
  • the present invention overcomes these drawbacks, by proposing a watch with an easy seconds counting system (fifteen in the preferred variant), extremely quick to implement, without any other intervention than observing the dial, and also offering two ways to calculate this time frame.
  • the system which is the subject of the invention uses, over 90 °, only a narrow strip at the periphery of the dial, so that attention is immediately focused on this functional area.
  • the eye should not scan the entire dial to find the point from which the measurement should start. This immediate focus of attention is conducive to speed and clarity, and guarantees increased security.
  • the rest of the dial can remain blank, or possibly receive decorations or indications.
  • the watch according to the invention comprises, in the preferred variant, a transparent disc 1 driven out on the axis usually reserved for the second hand, by means of a brass barrel 2.
  • the hour and minute hands are conventional.
  • This disc presents at its extreme periphery four indexes 3 of identical color or shape, spaced apart by 90 °, as well as four other indexes, of different color or shape from the first, but identical to each other: these four other indexes alternate with the first ones: the indexes therefore divide the disc into eight sectors of 45 °.
  • this disc consists of eight sectors of 90 °, overlapping each other by 45 °.
  • This second series of indexes is arranged along a circumference with a diameter less than that of the first.
  • Figure 3 shows the watch with its single dial; the hatched part 6 is produced in a color such that the eight movable indexes 3 and 4 of the transparent disc stand out clearly there. Its dimension 7 places it in the path of all moving indexes. It covers an area of 90 ° between the "nine o'clock" position and the "noon" position.
  • Two fixed indexes 8 and 9 are placed respectively at the "ten o'clock" position and at the "eleven o'clock” position.
  • the rest of the dial that is to say a sector of 270 °, is covered with a dotted part 10 and a grid part 5.
  • the dotted part 10 covers the extreme periphery of the dial, so as to be only on the passage of the movable indexes 4, who are outside.
  • This dotted part 10 has the same color as the movable indexes 4.
  • the grid part 5 is the same color as the movable indexes 3.
  • the eye therefore perceives the indexes only when they pass through the hatched part 6, which has a different color. Since this hatched part covers a 90 ° sector, it can only contain two indexes, each of a different color. It is therefore hardly possible to be mistaken, the hatched sector never containing more than one index of the same series.
  • This second method has the advantage of a maximum waiting time of 2.5 seconds.
  • there is hardly any possibility of making a mistake since the memorization of a counting start marker is useless: it suffices to stare at an index of the dial and wait for the successive passage of two mobile indexes of the same color.
  • This device using identical colors for certain movable indexes and certain parts of the dial, in order to create the illusion of a disappearance of these indexes when they are superimposed on zones of the dial of the same color, constitutes the preferred variant.
  • FIG. 5 shows a dial, of uniform color, provided only with the two fixed indexes 8 and 9 of FIG. 3.
  • the glass represented alone in FIG. 4, has a 270 ° cover printed or attached around its periphery .
  • This cover is of an appropriate width and sufficient to cover the movable indexes 3 and 4.
  • This glass is mounted in a completely conventional manner on the housing 12.
  • Such an embodiment has the advantage of allowing the use of phosphorescent mobile indexes, instead of color indexes.
  • the indexes of one series should be given a shape or dimensions different from those of the indexes of the other series.
  • the counting period for a different period, for example 30 seconds. This can be done either by modifying the spacing of the movable indexes, or by modifying the angular magnitude of the sector 6, or by modifying these two parameters.
  • FIG. 6 shows, by way of example, a disc having two diametrically opposed indexes 14 and 15. It suffices to wait for the passage on a fixed mark of the dial of the two indexes 14 and 15 which are of the same color, of the same dimensions or the same shape. In this case, the counting time is 30 seconds.
  • FIG. 10 shows an example of a watch provided with a cover whose angular value determines a counting time of 20 seconds.
  • FIG. 11 A particular embodiment is shown in FIG. 11.
  • the cover 20 is independent of the glass 21 and of the dial 22.
  • the cover is integral with a toothed crown 23 meshed with a pinion 24, the l 'axis, which crosses the housing radially, carries at its end a notched crown 25 located outside, on the side of the housing, in the same manner as a usual winding crown.
  • the rotation given to the notched crown drives the pinion and thus rotates the cover on the periphery of the dial.
  • Such an embodiment makes it possible to position the cover at will.
  • FIG. 9 shows a disc having three differently colored sectors, in place of the indexes.
  • the transparent disc can be replaced by a series of needles with different aspects, but identical two by two, as shown in Figure 8.

Landscapes

  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Electromechanical Clocks (AREA)
  • Nitrogen And Oxygen Or Sulfur-Condensed Heterocyclic Ring Systems (AREA)

Abstract

This watch comprises a sector (6) with two fixed index marks (8, 9). This sector is on the periphery of the dial and occupies an angular space of 90 DEG . The dial has a peripheral zone (10) in another colour, and the rest (5) of the dial has yet another colour. A transparent movable disc is mounted on the seconds spindle. Two series of movable index marks (3, 4) are placed on this disc. The index marks of one series alternate with those of the second series. Each series comprises four index marks. The index marks of one series are closer to the centre than those of the other series. The index marks which are furthest from the centre pass over the peripheral zone (10) upon rotation of the disc. This zone has the same colour as this series of index marks. The movable index marks of the series closest to the centre pass over the rest (5) of the dial, and have the same colour as the dial. Two different movable index marks can only appear entirely in the sector (6). The movable index marks disappear from view when they leave this sector, since they have the same colour as the background. The watch enables nurses to measure the pulse for 15 seconds without error, without having to engage a counter and waiting a maximum of two and a half seconds before commencing counting. <IMAGE>

Description

La présente invention concerne une montre, ou pendule, destinée au calcul des temps courts, inférieurs à la minute, et ne nécessitant pas une précision meilleure que la seconde.The present invention relates to a watch, or pendulum, intended for the calculation of short times, less than a minute, and not requiring better precision than the second.

Dans sa variante préférée, il s'agira d'une montre destinée au corps médical, infirmières tout particulièrement, qui sont contraintes fréquemment à la prise du pouls des malades dans des conditions parfois difficiles : fatique, agitation du patient, facteurs émotionnels; de telles conditions imposent un système fiable, de mise en oeuvre rapide, et surtout de lecture aisée.In its preferred variant, it will be a watch intended for the medical profession, nurses in particular, who are frequently forced to take the pulse of the patients in sometimes difficult conditions: fatigue, agitation of the patient, emotional factors; such conditions impose a reliable system, of rapid implementation, and above all of easy reading.

Deux types d'instruments horaires adaptés à cette fonction existent déjà : d'une part des chronographes équipés d'une échelle spécifique indiquant directement, pour un compte de 20 pulsations, le nombre de ces pulsations à la minute; d'autre part, de simples montres à trotteuse centrale, également munies de cette échelle spécifique.Two types of time instruments adapted to this function already exist: on the one hand chronographs equipped with a specific scale indicating directly, for a count of 20 pulses, the number of these pulses per minute; on the other hand, simple central second hand watches, also provided of this specific scale.

Dans ce dernier cas, l'inconvénient majeur se trouve dans l'attente nécessaire pour que la trotteuse atteigne la première graduation de l'échelle pulsométrique, avant de commencer le comptage : cette attente est souvent trop longue.In the latter case, the major drawback lies in the wait necessary for the second hand to reach the first graduation of the pulsometric scale, before starting the counting: this wait is often too long.

La possibilité de remise à zéro à volonté offerte par le chronographe pallie cet inconvénient, mais le coût en est alors élevé, et surtout nécessite pour le déclenchement l'usage de la main droite, elle-même occupée à la prise du pouls au poignet du malade.The possibility of resetting at will offered by the chronograph overcomes this drawback, but the cost is then high, and above all requires for triggering the use of the right hand, itself busy taking the pulse on the wrist of the sick.

Dans la pratique, les infirmières utilisent des montres traditionnelles, qui sont nécessairement munies d'une trotteuse centrale (ou, à défaut, d'une petite seconde) et de la minuterie habituelle sur le pourtour du cadran. L'infirmière qui tâte le pouls prend le poignet du patient dans une main et regarde sa montre en même temps. Comme elle a une main occupée, et que sa montre est habituellement fixée au poignet de l'autre main, il ne lui est guère utile de disposer d'un chronographe qu'elle devrait actionner avec sa main occupée. L'infirmière prend en général le pouls pendant 15 secondes seulement, et multiplie ensuite par 4 le nombre des pulsations qu'elle a comptées, de façon à obtenir le nombre de pulsations par minute. Elle évite ainsi une perte de temps. Pour commencer la mesure, elle doit attendre en pratique que l'aiguille des secondes, ou trotteuse, passe devant un index clairement visible. Autrement dit, elle doit attendre que l'aiguille passe devant l'un des douze index marquant les heures. Avant de commencer le comptage des pulsations, l'infirmière doit donc attendre au maximum 5 secondes. Ce temps d'attente n'est pas excessif. Cependant, un tel sytème présente l'inconvénient majeur que l'infirmière risque d'oublier quel est l'index de départ de la mesure. En effet, de nombreux événements perturbateurs interviennent dans le travail d'une infirmière : bruit, agitation soudaine du malade, manque de concentration dû à la fatigue. En tout état de cause, le fait de devoir mémoriser cette graduation sur un cadran à vocation simplement horaire et non chronographique crée un accaparement de l'attention qui, pour minime qu'il soit, n'en reste pas moins pernicieux parce que se répétant maintes fois dans la journée.In practice, nurses use traditional watches, which are necessarily equipped with a central second hand (or, failing that, a small second) and the usual timer around the periphery of the dial. The nurse who feels the pulse takes the patient's wrist in one hand and looks at his watch at the same time. Since she has a busy hand, and her watch is usually attached to the wrist with the other hand, it is of little use to her have a chronograph that she should operate with her busy hand. The nurse generally takes the pulse for only 15 seconds, and then multiplies by 4 the number of pulses she has counted, so as to obtain the number of pulses per minute. It thus avoids a waste of time. To start the measurement, she must wait in practice for the second hand, or second hand, to pass in front of a clearly visible index. In other words, it must wait until the hand passes one of the twelve hour markers. Before starting the pulse counting, the nurse must therefore wait a maximum of 5 seconds. This waiting time is not excessive. However, such a system has the major drawback that the nurse may forget what is the starting index of the measurement. Indeed, many disruptive events occur in the work of a nurse: noise, sudden agitation of the patient, lack of concentration due to fatigue. In any case, the fact of having to memorize this graduation on a dial with a purely hourly vocation and not chronographic creates a grabbing of attention which, however small it may be, remains no less pernicious because it is repeated many times during the day.

Un autre inconvénient réside dans la nécessité des douze index d'heures, qui condamnent la montre à un aspect très classique, compromettant certaines possibilités de décoration du cadran.Another drawback lies in the need for the twelve hour markers, which condemn the watch to a very classic appearance, compromising certain possibilities for decorating the dial.

Des montres munies de secteurs de couleur définissant et mettant en exergue une durée déterminée, généralement de 15 secondes, ont déjà été sur le marché, mais sans résoudre vraiment le problème de la rapidité de mise en oeuvre de la mesure et sa sécurité.Watches with color sectors defining and highlighting a fixed duration, generally 15 seconds, have already been on the market, but without really solving the problem of the speed of implementation of the measure and its safety.

La présente invention pallie ces inconvénients, en proposant une montre avec un système de comptage des secondes (quinze dans la variante préférée) aisé, de mise en oeuvre extrêmement rapide, sans aucune autre intervention que l'observation du cadran, et offrant en outre deux manières de calcul de ce laps de temps.The present invention overcomes these drawbacks, by proposing a watch with an easy seconds counting system (fifteen in the preferred variant), extremely quick to implement, without any other intervention than observing the dial, and also offering two ways to calculate this time frame.

D'autre part, le système objet de l'invention utilise sur 90° seulement une bande étroite à la périphérie du cadran, de sorte que l'attention est immédiatement focalisée sur cette zone fonctionnelle. L'oeil ne doit pas balayer la totalité du cadran pour trouver le point d'où la mesure doit partir. Cette focalisation immédiate de l'attention est propice à la rapidité et à la clarté, et garantit une sécurité accrue. Le reste du cadran peut demeurer vierge, ou recevoir éventuellement des décorations ou des indications.On the other hand, the system which is the subject of the invention uses, over 90 °, only a narrow strip at the periphery of the dial, so that attention is immediately focused on this functional area. The eye should not scan the entire dial to find the point from which the measurement should start. This immediate focus of attention is conducive to speed and clarity, and guarantees increased security. The rest of the dial can remain blank, or possibly receive decorations or indications.

L'invention est définie dans les revendications.The invention is defined in the claims.

Les dessins représentent, à titre d'exemples, quelques formes d'exécution de l'invention.

  • La figure 1 représente, vu de face, un disque selon l'invention, destiné à être placé sur l'axe de la trotteuse d'une montre.
  • La figure 2 représente le même disque vu de côté.
  • La figure 3 représente une montre selon l'invention, vue de face et sans verre.
  • La figure 4 représente, vu de face, un verre destiné à une montre selon l'invention, avec un cache sur ou sous une partie de sa périphérie.
  • La figure 5 représente une montre selon l'invention, vue de face, munie d'un verre avec cache selon la figure 4.
  • La figure 6 représente, vu de face, un disque destiné à être placé sur l'axe de la trotteuse d'une montre, dans une autre forme d'exécution.
  • La figure 7 représente une montre selon l'invention, vue de face, dans une autre forme d'exécution, sans cache.
  • La figure 8 représente un assemblage d'aiguilles destiné à être utilisé au lieu d'un disque selon la figure 1.
  • La figure 9 représente une autre forme de disque selon l'invention, vu de face.
  • La figure 10 représente, vue de face, une montre selon l'invention, dans une autre forme d'exécution.
  • La figure 11 représente en coupe partielle une montre selon l'invention, pourvue d'un cache mobile circulairement.
The drawings show, by way of examples, some embodiments of the invention.
  • Figure 1 shows, seen from the front, a disc according to the invention, intended to be placed on the axis of the second hand of a watch.
  • Figure 2 shows the same disc seen from the side.
  • FIG. 3 represents a watch according to the invention, front view and without glass.
  • FIG. 4 represents, seen from the front, a glass intended for a watch according to the invention, with a cover on or under a part of its periphery.
  • FIG. 5 represents a watch according to the invention, front view, provided with a glass with cover according to FIG. 4.
  • FIG. 6 represents, seen from the front, a disc intended to be placed on the axis of the second hand of a watch, in another embodiment.
  • Figure 7 shows a watch according to the invention, front view, in another embodiment, without cover.
  • FIG. 8 represents an assembly of needles intended to be used instead of a disc according to FIG. 1.
  • Figure 9 shows another form of disc according to the invention, seen from the front.
  • 10 shows, front view, a watch according to the invention, in another embodiment.
  • Figure 11 shows in partial section a watch according to the invention, provided with a circularly movable cover.

La montre selon l'invention comprend dans la variante préférée, un disque transparent 1 chassé sur l'axe habituellement réservé à la trotteuse, par l'intermédiaire d'un canon en laiton 2. Les aiguilles d'heures et de minutes sont conventionnelles.The watch according to the invention comprises, in the preferred variant, a transparent disc 1 driven out on the axis usually reserved for the second hand, by means of a brass barrel 2. The hour and minute hands are conventional.

Ce disque présente à sa phériphérie extrême quatre index 3 de couleur ou de forme identique, espacés entre eux de 90°, ainsi que quatre autres index, de couleur ou de forme différents des premiers, mais identiques entre eux: ces quatre autres index alternent avec les permiers: les index divisent donc le disque en huit secteurs de 45°. En fait, et pour mieux apprécier la caractéristique essentielle de l'invention, il est préférable de considérer que ce disque est constitué de huit secteurs de 90°, se recouvrant les uns les autres de 45°.This disc presents at its extreme periphery four indexes 3 of identical color or shape, spaced apart by 90 °, as well as four other indexes, of different color or shape from the first, but identical to each other: these four other indexes alternate with the first ones: the indexes therefore divide the disc into eight sectors of 45 °. In fact, and to better appreciate the essential characteristic of the invention, it is preferable to consider that this disc consists of eight sectors of 90 °, overlapping each other by 45 °.

Cette seconde série d'index est disposée selon une circonférence d'un diamètre inférieur à celui de la première.This second series of indexes is arranged along a circumference with a diameter less than that of the first.

La figure 3 représente la montre munie de son seul cadran; la partie hachurée 6 est réalisée d'une couleur telle que les huit index 3 et 4 mobiles du disque transparent s'y détachent nettement. Sa dimension 7 la place sur le passage de tous les index mobiles. Elle couvre un secteur de 90° entre la position "neuf heures" et la position "midi".Figure 3 shows the watch with its single dial; the hatched part 6 is produced in a color such that the eight movable indexes 3 and 4 of the transparent disc stand out clearly there. Its dimension 7 places it in the path of all moving indexes. It covers an area of 90 ° between the "nine o'clock" position and the "noon" position.

Deux index fixes 8 et 9 sont placés respectivement à la position "dix heures" et à la position "onze heures". Le reste du cadran, c'est-à-dire un secteur de 270°, est couvert d'une partie pointillée 10 et d'une partie quadrillée 5. La partie pointillée 10 couvre la périphérie extrême du cadran, de façon à se trouver uniquement sur le passage des index mobiles 4, qui sont à l'extérieur. Cette partie pointillée 10 présente la même couleur que les index mobiles 4. De même, la partie quadrillée 5 est de la même couleur que les index mobiles 3.Two fixed indexes 8 and 9 are placed respectively at the "ten o'clock" position and at the "eleven o'clock" position. The rest of the dial, that is to say a sector of 270 °, is covered with a dotted part 10 and a grid part 5. The dotted part 10 covers the extreme periphery of the dial, so as to be only on the passage of the movable indexes 4, who are outside. This dotted part 10 has the same color as the movable indexes 4. Similarly, the grid part 5 is the same color as the movable indexes 3.

Le fonctionnement est simple le disque mobile transparent 1 chassé sur l'axe de la trotteuse se déplace au rythme de la seconde, mais les index mobiles n'apparaissent que lorsqu'ils passent au-dessus de la partie hachurée 6. En effet, lorsqu'ils se trouvent en un autre endroit du cadran, l'oeil ne les perçoit plus, car ils se fondent dans la zone au-dessus de laquelle ils passent, cette zone présentant la même couleur qu'eux.The operation is simple the transparent movable disc 1 driven on the axis of the second hand moves at the rate of the second, but the movable indexes only appear when they pass over the hatched part 6. Indeed, when 'they are in another place of the dial, the eye does not perceive them any more, because they melt in the zone above which they pass, this zone presenting the same color as them.

L'oeil ne perçoit donc les index qu'au moment de leur passage dans la partie hachurée 6, qui présente une couleur différente. Etant donné que cette partie hachurée couvre un secteur de 90°, elle ne peut contenir à la fois que deux index, chacun d'une couleur différente. Il n'est donc guère possible de se tromper, le secteur hachuré ne contenant jamais qu'un index d'une même série.The eye therefore perceives the indexes only when they pass through the hatched part 6, which has a different color. Since this hatched part covers a 90 ° sector, it can only contain two indexes, each of a different color. It is therefore hardly possible to be mistaken, the hatched sector never containing more than one index of the same series.

Deux manières de mesurer le pouls pendant une période de 15 secondes s'offrent alors dans la variante préférée.Two ways of measuring the pulse during a period of 15 seconds are then offered in the preferred variant.

Tout d'abord, la manière traditionnelle, qui consiste à attendre l'apparition d'un index au début de la zone hachurée, c'est-à-dire à la position "neuf heures", à commencer à compter à ce moment-là, et à arrêter le compte lorsque l'index atteint le bout de la zone, à la position "midi". L'attente maximale peut alors atteindre 7 seconde et demie. Une telle période d'attente, légérement plus longue que la période maximale du système habituel, est encore tolérable. L'invention assure cependant en outre une sécurité et un confort de lecture nettement accrus. Il n'y a pas lieu de mémoriser l'index de départ, car celui-ci est unique, et l'attention est focalisée en un seul secteur limité du cadran, ce qui limite l'effort. De préférence, ce secteur de lecture sera dépouillé graphiquement, pour obtenir une plus grande efficacité.First of all, the traditional way, which is to wait for the appearance of an index at the start of the hatched area, that is to say at the "nine o'clock" position, to start counting at this time. there, and stop the count when the index reaches the end of the zone, at the "noon" position. The maximum wait can then reach 7 and a half seconds. Such a waiting period, slightly longer than the maximum period of the usual system, is still tolerable. The invention however also provides significantly increased security and reading comfort. There is no need to memorize the starting index, because it is unique, and the attention is focused in a single limited sector of the dial, which limits the effort. Preferably, this reading sector will be stripped graphically, to obtain greater efficiency.

Ensuite, une méthode plus rapide, qui consiste à choisir l'un des deux index fixes 8 ou 9, et à compter les pulsations pendant le temps qui s'écoule entre les passages devant l'index fixe choisi de deux index mobiles de la même couleur, ce temps étant bien entendu de 15 secondes dans la forme d'exécution représentée ici.Then a faster method, which involves choose one of the two fixed indexes 8 or 9, and count the pulses during the time that elapses between the passages in front of the chosen fixed index of two moving indexes of the same color, this time being of course 15 seconds in the embodiment shown here.

Cette seconde méthode présente l'avantage d'un temps d'attente maximal de 2 seconde et demie. En outre, il n'y a guère de possibilité de se tromper, du fait que la mémorisation d'un repère de départ de comptage est inutile : il suffit de fixer du regard un index du cadran et d'attendre le passage successif de deux index mobiles de même couleur.This second method has the advantage of a maximum waiting time of 2.5 seconds. In addition, there is hardly any possibility of making a mistake, since the memorization of a counting start marker is useless: it suffices to stare at an index of the dial and wait for the successive passage of two mobile indexes of the same color.

Ce dispositif utilisant des couleurs identiques pour certains index mobiles et certaines parties du cadran, afin de créer l'illusion d'une disparition de ces index lorsqu'ils se superposent à des zones du cadran de même couleur, constitue la variante préférée. Toutefois, il est évidemment possible de renoncer à un tel artifice, sans pour autant sortir de l'invention.This device using identical colors for certain movable indexes and certain parts of the dial, in order to create the illusion of a disappearance of these indexes when they are superimposed on zones of the dial of the same color, constitutes the preferred variant. However, it is obviously possible to renounce such an artifice, without however departing from the invention.

Par exemple, la figure 5 montre un cadran, de teinte uniforme, muni seulement des deux index fixes 8 et 9 de la figure 3. Le verre, représenté seul à la figure 4, présente un cache de 270° imprimé ou rapporté sur son pourtour. Ce cache est d'une largeur appropriée et suffisante pour couvrir les index mobiles 3 et 4. Ce verre est monté de manière tout à fait classique sur le boîtier 12.For example, FIG. 5 shows a dial, of uniform color, provided only with the two fixed indexes 8 and 9 of FIG. 3. The glass, represented alone in FIG. 4, has a 270 ° cover printed or attached around its periphery . This cover is of an appropriate width and sufficient to cover the movable indexes 3 and 4. This glass is mounted in a completely conventional manner on the housing 12.

Une telle forme d'exécution présente l'avantage de permettre l'utilisation d'index mobiles phosphorescents, au lieu d'index de couleur. En pareil cas, il convient de donner aux index d'une série une forme ou des dimensions différentes de celles des index de l'autre série.Such an embodiment has the advantage of allowing the use of phosphorescent mobile indexes, instead of color indexes. In such cases, the indexes of one series should be given a shape or dimensions different from those of the indexes of the other series.

Il est également possible de prendre pour base de comptage une période différente, par exemple 30 secondes. Cela peut se faire soit en modifiant l'espacement des index mobiles, soit en modifiant la grandeur angulaire du secteur 6, soit en modifiant ces deux paramètres.It is also possible to take the counting period for a different period, for example 30 seconds. This can be done either by modifying the spacing of the movable indexes, or by modifying the angular magnitude of the sector 6, or by modifying these two parameters.

La figure 6 montre, à titre d'exemple, un disque présentant deux index diamétralement opposés 14 et 15. Il suffit d'attendre le passage sur un repère fixe du cadran des deux index 14 et 15 qui sont de même couleur, de mêmes dimensions ou de même forme. Dans ce cas, le temps de comptage est de 30 secondes.FIG. 6 shows, by way of example, a disc having two diametrically opposed indexes 14 and 15. It suffices to wait for the passage on a fixed mark of the dial of the two indexes 14 and 15 which are of the same color, of the same dimensions or the same shape. In this case, the counting time is 30 seconds.

De même, la figure 10 montre un exemple d'une montre munie d'un cache dont la valeur angulaire détermine un temps de comptage de 20 secondes.Likewise, FIG. 10 shows an example of a watch provided with a cover whose angular value determines a counting time of 20 seconds.

Une forme d'exécution particulière est montrée à la figure 11. Dans cette forme d'exécution, le cache 20 est indépendant du verre 21 et du cadran 22. Le cache est solidaire d'une couronne dentée 23 engrenée avec un pignon 24 dont l'axe, qui traverse le boîtier radialement, porte à son extrémité une couronne crantée 25 située à l'extérieur, sur le côté du boîtier, de la même manière qu'une couronne de remontoir habituelle. La rotation donnée à la couronne crantée entraîne le pignon et fait ainsi tourner le cache sur la périphérie du cadran. Une telle forme d'exécution permet de positionner le cache à volonté.A particular embodiment is shown in FIG. 11. In this embodiment, the cover 20 is independent of the glass 21 and of the dial 22. The cover is integral with a toothed crown 23 meshed with a pinion 24, the l 'axis, which crosses the housing radially, carries at its end a notched crown 25 located outside, on the side of the housing, in the same manner as a usual winding crown. The rotation given to the notched crown drives the pinion and thus rotates the cover on the periphery of the dial. Such an embodiment makes it possible to position the cover at will.

Elle permet en outre de mesurer des temps de durée plus élevés, en heures ou en minutes, dans la limite de la valeur angulaire du secteur laissé libre par le cache, par le positionnement du bord de cette ouverture sur l'aiguille des heures ou sur celle des minutes pour avoir la position de départ du comptage, le temps de comptage étant écoulé au moment ou l'aiguille arrive à l'autre bord.It also makes it possible to measure longer duration times, in hours or minutes, within the limit of the angular value of the sector left free by the cover, by positioning the edge of this opening on the hour hand or on that of the minutes to have the counting start position, the counting time having elapsed when the needle arrives at the other edge.

Il est possible de donner au disque des colorations diverses. Ainsi la figure 9 montre un disque présentant trois secteurs différemment colorés, en lieu et place des index. Enfin, le disque tranparent peut être remplacé par une série d'aiguilles présentant des aspects différents, mais identiques deux par deux, comme cela est montré à la figure 8.It is possible to give the disc various colors. Thus, FIG. 9 shows a disc having three differently colored sectors, in place of the indexes. Finally, the transparent disc can be replaced by a series of needles with different aspects, but identical two by two, as shown in Figure 8.

Claims (9)

1) Montre pulsométrique à affichage analogique présentant au moins un indicateur rotatif des secondes, et des index fixes devant lesquels passe l'indicateur rotatif, caractérisée en ce que l'indicateur rotatif porte au moins deux séries d'index mobiles, les index mobiles d'une série étant équidistants et identiques entre eux mais différant d'aspect de ceux de l'autre série, la montre présentant en outre les moyens aptes à diminuer sensiblement la visibilité des index mobiles, ou à les cacher, sur une partie du cadran, et des moyens aptes à faire apparaître nettement à la vue les index mobiles sur un secteur déterminé du cadran, la dimension angulaire de ce secteur déterminé étant telle que deux index mobiles au plus peuvent apparaître simultanément et entièrement dans ce secteur.1) Pulsometric watch with analog display having at least one rotary seconds indicator, and fixed indexes in front of which the rotary indicator passes, characterized in that the rotary indicator carries at least two series of mobile indices, the mobile indices d a series being equidistant and identical to each other but differing in appearance from those of the other series, the watch furthermore presenting the means capable of substantially reducing the visibility of the moving indexes, or of hiding them, on a part of the dial, and means capable of clearly showing the movable indexes on a determined sector of the dial, the angular dimension of this determined sector being such that at most two movable indexes can appear simultaneously and entirely in this sector. 2) Montre selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les index mobiles d'une série sont plus éloignés du centre de rotation de l'indicateur rotatif que les index mobiles de l'autre série.2) Watch according to claim 1, characterized in that the movable indexes of a series are more distant from the center of rotation of the rotary indicator than the moving indexes of the other series. 3) Montre selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que les index mobiles d'une série ont une autre couleur que ceux de l'autre série, en ce que le cadran présente un secteur angulaire déterminé d'une autre couleur que celle des index mobiles des deux séries, et en ce que les zones du reste du cadran qui correspondent au passage des deux séries d'index en dehors du secteur angulaire déterminé ont chacune la même couleur que les index mobiles de la série qui passe sur elle.3) Watch according to claim 2, characterized in that the movable indexes of one series have a different color than those of the other series, in that the dial has a determined angular sector of another color than that of the indexes mobile of the two series, and in that the zones of the rest of the dial which correspond to the passage of the two series of indexes outside the determined angular sector each have the same color as the mobile indexes of the series which passes over it. 4) Montre selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le secteur déterminé présente au moins deux index fixes.4) Watch according to claim 1, characterized in that the determined sector has at least two fixed indices. 5) Montre selon les revendications 2 et 4.5) Watch according to claims 2 and 4. 6) Montre selon les revendications 3 et 4.6) Watch according to claims 3 and 4. 7) Montre selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les moyens de cacher les index sont au moins un cache opaque placé au-dessus de l'indicateur rotatif.7) Watch according to claim 1, characterized in that that the means for hiding the indexes are at least one opaque mask placed above the rotary indicator. 8) Montre selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que le cache est mobile rotativement et en ce que la montre est pourvue de moyens permettant de commander une telle rotation.8) Watch according to claim 7, characterized in that the cover is rotatable and in that the watch is provided with means for controlling such rotation. 9) Montre selon la revendication 8, caractérisée en ce que les moyens permettant de commander la rotation du cache sont une couronne rotative commandant un axe qui passe à travers la paroi latérale de la boîte, et une roue dentée fixée au bout de l'axe et qui s'engrène sur une denture solidaire du cache.9) Watch according to claim 8, characterized in that the means for controlling the rotation of the cover are a rotary crown controlling an axis which passes through the side wall of the case, and a toothed wheel fixed to the end of the axis and which meshes on a toothing integral with the cover.
EP19880810864 1987-12-14 1988-12-14 Pulse meter watch Expired - Lifetime EP0321413B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
FR8717687 1987-12-14
FR8717687A FR2624626B1 (en) 1987-12-14 1987-12-14 PULSOMETRIC WATCH

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP0321413A1 true EP0321413A1 (en) 1989-06-21
EP0321413B1 EP0321413B1 (en) 1991-06-26

Family

ID=9358013

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
EP19880810864 Expired - Lifetime EP0321413B1 (en) 1987-12-14 1988-12-14 Pulse meter watch

Country Status (3)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0321413B1 (en)
DE (2) DE321413T1 (en)
FR (1) FR2624626B1 (en)

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2921164A1 (en) * 2007-09-19 2009-03-20 Grisogono Sa De Device i.e. sequential display module, for visualizing e.g. watch complication, has mechanical module and masking disk integrated in casing including visualizable parts and units associated to visualizable parts

Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1097753A (en) * 1913-11-17 1914-05-26 Benjamin F Flegel Culinary timing apparatus.
CH316845A (en) * 1954-05-04 1956-10-31 Gigandet Andre Timepiece
CH1120361A4 (en) * 1961-09-27 1963-08-30
DE1964488A1 (en) * 1968-12-24 1970-10-08 Triebold Agon Uhren Clock with disc display
US3665702A (en) * 1969-12-05 1972-05-30 Zodiac Timepieces
EP0245974A2 (en) * 1986-05-09 1987-11-19 Citizen Watch Co. Ltd. Watch with hand in form of circular film and provided with electrostatic shielding device

Family Cites Families (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CH11203A (en) * 1895-10-07 1896-05-31 Jacob Bernheimer Bicycle with adjustable sprocket and automatically adjustable chain tensioning device
CH492255A (en) * 1967-07-10 1970-02-27 Omega Brandt & Freres Sa Louis Watch, especially diving watch

Patent Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1097753A (en) * 1913-11-17 1914-05-26 Benjamin F Flegel Culinary timing apparatus.
CH316845A (en) * 1954-05-04 1956-10-31 Gigandet Andre Timepiece
CH1120361A4 (en) * 1961-09-27 1963-08-30
DE1964488A1 (en) * 1968-12-24 1970-10-08 Triebold Agon Uhren Clock with disc display
US3665702A (en) * 1969-12-05 1972-05-30 Zodiac Timepieces
EP0245974A2 (en) * 1986-05-09 1987-11-19 Citizen Watch Co. Ltd. Watch with hand in form of circular film and provided with electrostatic shielding device

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2921164A1 (en) * 2007-09-19 2009-03-20 Grisogono Sa De Device i.e. sequential display module, for visualizing e.g. watch complication, has mechanical module and masking disk integrated in casing including visualizable parts and units associated to visualizable parts

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
EP0321413B1 (en) 1991-06-26
FR2624626B1 (en) 1994-03-25
DE3863422D1 (en) 1991-08-01
DE321413T1 (en) 1989-12-28
FR2624626A1 (en) 1989-06-16

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
EP0408512B1 (en) Chronograph wrist-watch
EP0756217B1 (en) Annual calendar mechanism for timepieces
EP1373991B1 (en) Chronograph with two rotational directions
CH686808B5 (en) Piece watch indicating the part of the visible Earth from the moon.
CH684619B5 (en) Timepiece universal time display.
CH672223B5 (en)
EP2392976A2 (en) Mechanism for indication of the lunar phases
WO2010108947A1 (en) Display device
EP1536300B1 (en) Calendar mechanism for a watch comprising two superposed date annuli
EP4526736A1 (en) Chronograph watch
EP0366610B1 (en) Watch, particularly a wrist watch with multiple hands display
CH688497B5 (en) Timepiece with analog display processing means of a decimal number.
EP0321413B1 (en) Pulse meter watch
WO2002010864A1 (en) Timepiece component
EP1254399A1 (en) Analog indicator device for timekeeping clock and use thereof
FR3023935A1 (en) RELIEF WATCH HAVING A MOBILE ROTATING TRAY FOR HOURS AND A MOBILE PLATE SYSTEM AT HEIGHT FOR MINUTES
CH660941GA3 (en) Counting and display device with window, especially for wrist watch or other timepiece calendar, with analogue display
CH535453A (en) Chronograph with multiple counters
CH684769B5 (en) Chronograph.
CH529567A (en) Automatic locking device for a seat belt
EP0509403A1 (en) Clockwork movement
CH689028A5 (en) Display device for timepiece or stop-watch
FR2793568A1 (en) Variation of watch or clock displays has a list of names arranged along regularly spaced radii, e.g. a list of 12 footballers names, to assist in learning a list of names or for a different visual appearance
CH270172A (en) Fruit sorting machine.
CH710890A1 (en) Timepiece with a time zone indicator.

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PUAI Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phase

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009012

17P Request for examination filed

Effective date: 19881214

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: A1

Designated state(s): CH DE GB IT LI

ITCL It: translation for ep claims filed

Representative=s name: STUDIO MASSARI S.R.L.

GBC Gb: translation of claims filed (gb section 78(7)/1977)
DET De: translation of patent claims
17Q First examination report despatched

Effective date: 19900925

GRAA (expected) grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009210

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: B1

Designated state(s): CH DE GB IT LI

ITF It: translation for a ep patent filed
GBT Gb: translation of ep patent filed (gb section 77(6)(a)/1977)
REF Corresponds to:

Ref document number: 3863422

Country of ref document: DE

Date of ref document: 19910801

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: CH

Payment date: 19911213

Year of fee payment: 4

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Payment date: 19920117

Year of fee payment: 4

PLBE No opposition filed within time limit

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009261

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: CH

Ref legal event code: PFA

Free format text: ULYSTAR WATCHES S.A.

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: NO OPPOSITION FILED WITHIN TIME LIMIT

26N No opposition filed
PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: GB

Effective date: 19921214

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: LI

Effective date: 19921231

Ref country code: CH

Effective date: 19921231

GBPC Gb: european patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

Effective date: 19921214

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: CH

Ref legal event code: PL

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Effective date: 19930901

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: IT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES;WARNING: LAPSES OF ITALIAN PATENTS WITH EFFECTIVE DATE BEFORE 2007 MAY HAVE OCCURRED AT ANY TIME BEFORE 2007. THE CORRECT EFFECTIVE DATE MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE RECORDED.

Effective date: 20051214