EP2034376B1 - Armbanduhrgehäuse - Google Patents

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EP2034376B1
EP2034376B1 EP20070405272 EP07405272A EP2034376B1 EP 2034376 B1 EP2034376 B1 EP 2034376B1 EP 20070405272 EP20070405272 EP 20070405272 EP 07405272 A EP07405272 A EP 07405272A EP 2034376 B1 EP2034376 B1 EP 2034376B1
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    • 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
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    • 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
    • G04B23/00—Arrangements producing acoustic signals at preselected times
    • G04B23/02—Alarm clocks
    • G04B23/028—Sounding bodies; boxes used as sounding cases; fixation on or in the case
    • 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
    • G04B23/00—Arrangements producing acoustic signals at preselected times
    • G04B23/02—Alarm clocks
    • G04B23/12—Alarm watches to be worn in pockets or on the wrist
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/0075—Cases with means to enhance sound transmission

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  • the subject of the present invention is a watch case, preferably a resonant wristwatch box, in particular a resonant box for a striking watch.
  • the bell wristwatches are provided with a sound generating member which may typically consist of at least one stamp or gong struck by a hammer, or even a disc or pin roll actuating lamellae at the same time. way of a music box.
  • a sound generating member which may typically consist of at least one stamp or gong struck by a hammer, or even a disc or pin roll actuating lamellae at the same time. way of a music box.
  • the watch may be able to produce sounds or melodies on demand or at regular intervals of time.
  • Such watches are for example repeating watches, so-called big rings, chimes or gongs.
  • the document FR 2,777,095 suggests a sound watch comprising, inside its housing, at least one resonance chamber on the wall of which the sound production unit is directly mounted thereon.
  • a plurality of such chambers may be interconnected by tubular transmission members.
  • some of these rooms may even be provided with openings to the outside of the housing.
  • the bottom and the middle of the watch case are connected to each other by means suitable for damping the vibrations generated by the sound production unit. Thus, these vibrations are not transmitted or only weakly to the middle part and the parts connected thereto.
  • the main disadvantage of this device lies in the fact that one or more voids, closed by walls, must be reserved for within the housing to be able to create the corresponding resonance chamber or chambers. This results in a loss of space to the detriment of that occupied by other organs or the need to have to use larger volume watch cases.
  • the resonance of a watch case is a property generally related to watches called ringing. However, this quality could also be appreciated by collectors for watches devoid of any ringtone or specific melody. In such a case, it will be sought that the housing can at best transmit and sound the clicking of the mechanism and the regular beats of the balance. This is the reason why the object of the present invention is not limited to the use of the object described below for ringtones, but also relates to its use for other mechanical watches, essentially .
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy at least in part the aforementioned drawbacks by suggesting a watch case formed of three main distinct parts, namely a bezel, a middle and a bottom.
  • this bottom has the particularity of being connected to the bezel outside the caseband, trapping the latter inside a protective zone, preferably perforated.
  • the middle part can consist essentially of a wall of small or very thin, while remaining immune to any impact from the outside of the housing.
  • the document CH 645236 discloses a watch having assembly means arranged outside the middle part.
  • the object of the present invention is preferably to equip wristwatch watches.
  • the subject of the present invention is a watch case according to claim 1.
  • the arrangement of a middle part of very small thickness makes it possible to minimize the sound barrier effect existing between the interior and exterior environments of the case.
  • the present watch case has characteristics that best promote the transmission of sound waves through the middle part, without having amplified them by successive reflections.
  • the sound box role played by the watch case in the amplification of sound is further improved in the present invention by the specific arrangement outside the middle part of the assembly means that hold the middle part, the bottom and the bezel.
  • this arrangement also constitutes a means or a protection zone of the middle part against any possible impact.
  • the watch case can nevertheless be sealed to liquids and fine dust particles, through seals disposed between the middle part, the bezel and the bottom.
  • this watch case is intended to receive a ringing movement whose sound generating member may be either integral with the movement or held directly on the middle part so as to maximize the perceived loudness outside. of the case.
  • the object of the present invention is intended to be worn on the wrist by means of a bracelet maintained with hooking horns.
  • the latter are each formed of one or two parts attached to the telescope and / or the bottom. Alternatively, this or these parts may constitute with the bezel and / or the bottom of the same part machined in the mass.
  • the present invention also refers to a use of said case for a ring watch or a wristwatch, preferably a ringing wristwatch.
  • FIGS 1a and 1b these schematically illustrate a resonant housing according to the present invention.
  • This housing 1 is formed of three distinct main parts, namely a middle part 10, a bezel 20 and a bottom 30.
  • the caseband is immobilized between the bezel and the bottom themselves held together by assembly means 40.
  • the telescope 20 and the bottom 30 are connected to each other outside the middle part 10 surrounding the latter.
  • the telescope and / or the base comprise excrescences, for example in the form of portions of uprights 21, 31. These amounts respectively fill the periphery of the telescope and that of the bottom, so as to face to assemble in pairs, preferably in the horizontal plane of the middle part 10.
  • the middle part is trapped and partly protected by the assembly bezel-bottom.
  • This assembly is held together by a plurality of screws 42 whose heads preferably appear on the bottom of the housing 1.
  • these assembly means do not pass through the space located inside the middle part 10, nor this middle part itself, but instead are arranged close to the outer periphery of the middle part.
  • the portions of uprights 21, 31 are further apart from the middle part, so that a gap 9 exists between these uprights and this middle part.
  • this one illustrates by a schematic view, an exploded perspective of the watch case represented in Figures 1a and 1b .
  • the bezel 20 is closed by an upper window 2 inserted in a shoulder 22.
  • the latter is located on the upper inner edge of the opening in the bezel.
  • a seal 4 takes place between the upper window 2 and the shoulder 22.
  • the upper window makes it possible to see the dial 8 illustrated here as an indication.
  • the housing 1 is closed at its bottom by a lower window 3, clamped in the same manner in a second shoulder 32, itself provided on the inner edge and upper of the opening made in the bottom 30 A second seal 5 is inserted between the lower window 3 and the shoulder 32.
  • This second mirror makes it possible to see the non-illustrated movement of the watch, in particular the wheel side which comprises the plate supporting the gear trains and the bridges. .
  • this lower window 3 is optional and could be replaced by an opaque closure, which could still be one with the bottom 30 so as to constitute one and the same piece.
  • the middle part 10 which is wrapped at least partially by the bezel and the bottom.
  • the middle part 10 may advantageously consist of a wall 11 of small or very small thickness, to promote as much as possible the transmission of all the sounds from the inside of the housing.
  • sounds are typically those emitted by conventional, non-illustrated organs, such as the movement and / or timbres of a ring.
  • the middle part consists substantially of a wall of thickness less than 2 mm, preferably less than 0.5 mm, for example equal to 0.35 mm.
  • the thickness of the wall 11 is intended to be as thin as possible.
  • this wall is, in practice, limited only by the mechanical stresses to which the housing 1 must resist. These constraints are in particular those related to the pressure / depression in the case of a sealed housing. Therefore, we will favor the use of a material that has, for a thickness as small as possible, the best compromise between its mechanical strength, its sound transmission coefficient, its vibration properties or its fidelity in terms of acoustic wave transmission.
  • the middle part could be made, at least in part, in a mineral such as sapphire in order to increase its ringing power, without however excluding other materials such as ceramics, a metal or an alloy made of metals or different materials.
  • the figures 3 , 4, 4a and 4b represent such a middle, respectively in a perspective view, a plan view from below and views in vertical sections along the lines AA and BB of the figure 4 .
  • the outer surface of the wall 11 of this middle part is substantially that of a cylinder, preferably that of a cylinder of revolution.
  • the wall 11 could equally well have a square, rectangular, polygonal or circular shape.
  • this shape could still be conical, of hyperbolic section or approaching that of a barrel for example.
  • the cylinder shape of revolution has advantageous acoustic properties which gives it a preferential status.
  • the opposite ends or edges of the wall 11 are preferably provided with an upper flange 16 and a lower flange 17 in which upper and lower sealing gaskets 7 may be fitted.
  • Figures 5a and 5b these seals are intended to come into contact with the telescope 20 and the bottom 30.
  • a circular middle Fig. 4, 4a, 4b
  • these soles then take the form of a crown or a circular seat.
  • the caseband 10 is provided, on the inner surface of its wall 11, with a plurality of projections 12, 13 and 14.
  • the first ones constitute supports 12 intended to maintain at least one stamp through 'a clog conventional (not shown), to be fixed by means of threads 12a machined in this support.
  • the sound generator member will be advantageously fixed directly on the middle of the housing, thereby promoting the transmission to the outside of all the vibrations it produces.
  • the second projections 13 refer to supports in the form of tabs or fins adapted to receive the movement of the watch.
  • the latter is intended to rest on these supports and to be positioned by a shoulder 13a, visible in the figure 3 , especially in the figure 4a . Fixing the movement is obtained by screwing or pinning the latter through the holes 13b provided for this purpose in the supports 12, 13.
  • the last projecting portions 14 constitute reinforcements or so-called bosses allowing the drilling of at least one hole 14a passing through the thin wall 11 of the middle part. By this means, it will be possible to hunt a tube 14b ( figure 2 ).
  • the protrusions 12, preferably 13 and 14 inclusive, together with the caseband 10 constitute the same part machined in the mass.
  • the acoustic rendering of the middle part was, both in terms of the purity of the transmitted sounds and in terms of their intensity, better than if these parts were simply reported against the case, by example by welding on the inner surface of the wall 11 as could also be suggested by way of variant.
  • the figure 5 gives an illustration, in a plan view, of the bottom 30 shown in perspective at the figure 1b .
  • the Figures 5a and 5b respectively give vertical sectional views along the lines AA and BB of the figure 5 .
  • the middle part 10 is immobilized, without play, in its two opposite ends or edges.
  • the latter correspond to the upper flange 16 and the lower flange 17 in which the seals 6 and 7 can respectively be positioned.
  • This immobilization is obtained by at least one groove 26 and / or 27 , arranged at least in correspondence in the telescope and / or in the bottom.
  • a groove 27 can be arranged for one half in the sole 16, 17 of the middle part 10, and for the other in the bezel 20 and the bottom 30 as illustrated in FIGS. Figures 5a, 5b .
  • the assembly means 40 which make it possible to immobilize the middle part, the bezel and the base, are preferably constituted by threads 41 and corresponding screws 42.
  • the threads are machined at least in the amount portion 21, while the screws 42 may be advantageously embedded in the bottom.
  • the figure 6 presents a variant of the object of the present invention in which the watch case 1 appears as a battery snare drum.
  • the assembly means 40 furthermore comprise intermediate connecting elements 45 in the form of uprights which are independent of the telescope 20, the bottom 30 and, of course, the middle part 10. According to the method of preferred embodiment, these amounts or small columns are arranged between the bezel and the bottom, preferably at regular intervals all around the middle part without ever touching it. They are connected by their ends to the telescope and to the bottom by means of the screws 42 arranged in one or both of their ends.
  • pairs of horns 50 can be part of the housing of the present invention, especially when the latter is of course intended for a wristwatch.
  • the horns 50 provided for the attachment of the bracelet are either each formed of one or two parts 25, 35 attached to the telescope 20 and / or respectively the bottom 30, or constitute with this bezel and / or the bottom of the same piece machined in the mass.
  • the horns are not made integral with the middle part 10, but are instead linked, in part or in whole, to the bezel and / or the bottom of the housing.
  • the bracelet is intended to be connected to the horns in a conventional manner, for example by means of a spring bar can be inserted into the holes 51 formed on the inner faces of the horns of the same pair.
  • the present watch case 1 also finds a use dedicated to wristwatches.
  • the watch case 1 can also be sealed at pressures such as one typically encounters at depths of 35 m or 50 m at the below the level of a body of water.
  • it could be chosen to remove, at least in part, the seals to reduce as much as possible the sound absorption level of the housing and thereby minimize the acoustic dampening effect of the suggested means for immobilizing the middle part between the telescope and the bottom.
  • the middle part of the present invention also aims to transmit as closely as possible all of these waves to the outside of the case. This transmission is advantageously increased by the optional arrangement of the stamp or stamps directly on this middle, unlike a traditional arrangement of the latter on the movement.
  • the assembly of a movement in such a housing is substantially complicated. This complication is particularly the fact that the hammers, which are intended to hit the stamp or stamps accurately, are linked to the movement while the stamps are in turn integral with the middle case.

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  1. Uhrengehäuse (1), das aus drei unterschiedlichen Hauptteilen gebildet ist, nämlich aus einem Gehäuserahmen (10), aus einer Lünette (20) und aus einem Boden (30), wobei der Gehäuserahmen (10) mittels eine Rückhaltemittels (26, 27) unbeweglich zwischen der Lünette (20) und dem Boden (30) angeordnet ist, die durch Verbindungsmittel (40) miteinander verbunden sind, die an der Außenseite des Gehäuserahmens (10) vorhanden sind und diesen in einem Abstand umgeben, wobei der Gehäuserahmen (10) eine schwingende zylinderförmige Wand (11) mit einer Dicke von weniger als 2 mm aufweist.
  2. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die Wand (11) eine Dicke von vorzugsweise weniger als 0,5 mm oder gleich 0,35 mm aufweist.
  3. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 2, wobei die außenseitige Oberfläche der Wand (11) des Gehäuserahmens (10) im Wesentlichen der eines Zylinders, vorzugsweise der eines Drehzylinders, entspricht.
  4. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 2, wobei der Gehäuserahmen (10) auf der innenseitigen Oberfläche seiner Wand (11) mit vorstehenden Teilen (12, 13, 14) ausgestattet ist, die dazu eingerichtet sind, wenigstens ein Klangwerk und/oder ein Uhrwerk zu halten, und/oder mit wenigstens einem durchgehenden Loch (14a) durchbrochen zu sein, um eine Stange (14b) durchtreten zu lassen.
  5. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 4, wobei die vorstehenden Teile (12, 13, 14) an dem Gehäuserahmen (10) angefügt oder mit diesem durch Herstellen aus einem Stück einstückig sind.
  6. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Gehäuserahmen (10) spielfrei an dessen gegenüberliegenden Enden (16, 17) durch wenigstens eine Einschnürung (26, 27) fixiert ist, die entsprechend wenigstens in der Lünette (20) und/oder in dem Boden (30) eingebracht ist.
  7. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 6, wobei in der Einschnürung (27) wenigstens eine Dichtung (6, 7) zwischen dem Gehäuserahmen (10) und der Lünette (20) und/oder dem Boden (30) vorhanden ist.
  8. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Verbindungsmittel (40) aus Gewinden (41), Schrauben (42), Stiften oder Zapfen, die durch Versetzen oder durch Drehen aufgebracht sind, gebildet sind.
  9. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 8, wobei die Verbindungsmittel (40) weiterhin zwischenliegende Verbindungselemente (45) aufweist, die zwischen der Lünette (20) und dem Boden (30) angeordnet sind.
  10. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Lünette (20) und/oder der Boden (30) die Gestalt eines durchbrochenen Zylinders aufweisen.
  11. Uhrengehäuse nach Anspruch 1, wobei Befestigungshörner (50) für ein Armband jeweils aus einem Teil oder zwei Teilen (25, 35) gebildet sind, die an der Lünette (20) und/oder an dem Boden (30) angebracht sind oder mit dieser und/oder mit diesem durch Herstellen aus einem Stück einstückig sind.
  12. Verwendung des Uhrengehäuses (1) nach Anspruch 11 für eine Armbanduhr.
  13. Verwendung des Uhrengehäuses (1) nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche für eine einen Klang erzeugende Uhr.
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