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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8142070 | Timepiece crown including an uncoupling mechanism Winding crown for a timepiece, said crown (32) including an uncoupling mechanism (1) comprising a rigid drive ring (4, 400) secured to the crown (32) and cooperating with at least one elastically deformable element (2; 200) secured... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8092077 | Mechanism for the positioning of wristwatch control elements The invention relates to a mechanism for the positioning of wristwatch control elements, whereas such control element may be implemented as a crown intended for the adjustment of the watch—as well as winding up the energy storage spring, for mechanical watches—o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7959352 | Timepiece crown including an uncoupling mechanism Winding crown for a timepiece, said crown (32) including an uncoupling mechanism (1) comprising a rigid drive ring (4, 400) secured to the crown (32) and cooperating with at least one elastically deformable element (2; 200) secured... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7815365 | Portable timepiece A diver's watch includes a timepiece exterior assembly including a movement, a hand setting stem pipe, a crown for operating the movement, and a cover pipe. A locking face is formed at an outer peripheral portion of a case body provided to the timepiece exterior ass... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7651259 | Watch with rotating element The invention concerns a timepiece including a case (10) and a crystal (22) together defining a housing (18) for a movement (20), and further including an element that is mobile in rotation (30) actuated by a control member (36 | 01/26/2010 |
| 7404669 | Clockwork movement The clockwork movement comprises a crown (12) connected with at least one element of the movement through a connecting organ. It is provided with a selection device (13) that includes a blocking device (15) provided with two blocking spring blad... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401975 | Watch To obtain a degree of freedom in a design of a circumference part of a timepiece armor assembly, and provide a watch whose degree of freedom in a size of a dial is high. A timepiece armor assembly is formed of an armor case of one-piece structure in which a case bot... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7387434 | Lockable push button for portable apparatus such as a watch There is provided portable apparatus capable of maintaining a function of preventing accidental operation of a push button when the apparatus is carried on the wearer's body. The apparatus includes a watch enclosure body (apparatus enclosure body), a pipe, a push bu... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384190 | Crown for timepiece with disconnecting gear device The present invention concerns a crown for a timepiece comprising a disconnecting gear device for preventing damage to the components of the movement of the timepiece in which it is implemented. For this purpose, the crown is provided with a housing which houses a p... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7360944 | Control device with a disengageable crown for a wristwatch A device includes a supporting tube fixed at the case of a watch, a drive shaft with teeth extending inside the supporting tube for controlling at least one function of the watch, a crown having a crown's head and a tube with teeth integral with the crown's head tha... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359289 | Watch provided with push-buttons comprising a mechanism for actuating delocalised control elements of a clockwork The invention concerns a watch including a case having a middle part and housing a watch movement having a time-setting stem in a first peripheral region, said movement further including a first and a second control member which are arranged on either side of the ti... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357569 | Crown lock structure and timepiece having crown lock structure A crown lock structure for a timepiece has a crown having an inner surface provided with a threaded section and a connecting assembly for removably connecting the crown to a case of the timepiece. The connecting assembly comprises a tubular member for integral conne... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350968 | Case for a watch movement A watch case for an analog watch movement has a housing and a setting ring in a rotatably moveable and axially slideable relationship. The setting ring is coupled with a setting stem of the analog watch for rotation of the setting stem by rotation of the setting rin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347620 | Watch equipped with crown locking structure A watch has a crown threadedly locked to a stem pipe mounted to a barrel. The barrel has a pipe installation hole and a threaded hole that extends perpendicular to and in communication with the pipe installation hole. The stem pipe has an insertion portion and a bar... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7329042 | Watch crown with anti-rotation gasket There is provided a watch in which a crown and associated parts, excluding a winding stem pipe, can be replaced when the screw locking function is impaired. The watch includes a case band having a pipe attachment hole, a winding stem pipe, a ring gasket made of elas... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7318670 | Wristwatch push-piece winding button control device The device includes a support pipe driven into a bore of a watchcase, a push-piece crown consisting of a head and an extension mounted into the pipe in mobile manner, a part entraining rotation that is integral with the winding and setting stem of the watch, couplin... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7275860 | Display correcting mechanism and timepiece having display correcting mechanism A timepiece has a train wheel, a display member for undergoing rotation in accordance with rotation of the train wheel, and a display correcting mechanism for correcting a display content of the display member. The display correcting mechanism has a corrector settin... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7255473 | Portable timepiece To provide a portable timepiece having high durability constructed by a constitution capable of promoting operability of attaching and detaching a crown and holding a crown in an unoperated state so as not to rotate the crown unpreparedly. In a winding stem pipe att... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7210845 | Portable electronic instrument including at least one input/output terminal for establishing a communication with an electronic unit arranged within said instrument There is disclosed a portable electronic instrument (1) including a case (2), at least one electronic unit (72, 74) housed inside the case, and at least a first input and/or output terminal (A; B) accessible from the exterior of the case and inc... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7192184 | Portable watch A portable timepiece has a pipe extending from a case and a winding stem for transmitting a rotational force to a timepiece movement in the case. A crown is connected to the winding stem for rotational movement therewith and for detachable engagement with an outer p... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192182 | Winding stem pipe with friction ring To provide a portable timepiece in which the maintenance of a winding stem pipe and its surroundings is facilitated. Basically provided is a portable timepiece comprising a winding stem pipe releasably screwed into a pipe attachment opening of a case band, in which ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182507 | Portable timepiece To provide a portable timepiece capable of interchanging a part at a surrounding of a crown when a screw lock function is deteriorated. A premise is established by a portable timepiece screwing to lock a crown urged in a direction of separating from a case body by a... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175341 | Wrist-portable apparatus To provide a wrist-portable equipment that may prevent malfunction of an internal rotational ring. There is provided a wrist-portable equipment including: a case, an internal rotational ring to be used as a display member for rotating independently and separately fr... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7139300 | Wide-stripe single-mode diode-laser A wide-stripe diode-laser includes a lower cladding region, a lower waveguide region, an active region, an upper waveguide region, and an upper cladding region all comprising semiconductor layers epitaxially grown on a semiconductor substrate. An elongated rectangul... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7118270 | Portable watch A portable watch comprises a case body having a noncircular pipe-attachment hole extending therethrough, and a winding stem pipe removably inserted from outside of the case body into the pipe-attachment hole and having a noncircular outer peripheral portion that coo... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111977 | Portable watch To provide a portable watch enabling components exchange around a crown while retaining the waterproof capability of a winding-stem-pipe attachment section when the screw lock capability is reduced. A winding stem pipe is screwed into a pipe-attachment hole of a cas... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7083325 | Control mechanism for watch part The invention relates to a control mechanism for a timepiece of the type comprising a frame (10) defining a reference plane and, secured to this frame: a control rod (12) furnished with an annular groove (14) h... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7034237 | Portable electronic instrument including at least one control member arranged for also transmitting electric signals There is disclosed a portable electronic instrument (1) including a case (2) and a user interface (11 to 15) for selecting the functions of said portable electronic instrument, this user interface including at least a first control member... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7025494 | Wrist-portable apparatus A wrist-portable apparatus has a case housing a rotational display member and an operational shaft for undergoing rotational movement and sliding movement relative to the case so that the operational shaft may be axially displaced between a pushed-in position, in wh... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7001064 | Push-piece control device for a watch The invention concerns a push-piece control device for a watch comprising a case (10) provided with a middle (12), an arbor (16) integral with a crown (20) and mounted pivoting in the middle (12) and a push-piece (18) mounte... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6980488 | Device for winding and setting the time of a timepiece such as a date-watch including a date disc The present invention concerns a device for winding and setting the time of a timepiece such as a date watch (1) including a date disc (14), characterized in that the device includes a crown (12) arranged in the top plane of the watch (1)... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6935774 | Timepiece external part and method of manufacturing the part A wristwatch case (11) and a method of manufacturing the case, the wristwatch case comprising a wristwatch case body (1) made of titanium or stainless steel and a crown pipe (3) fixed to each other, wherein a stem hole (2) corresponding t... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6902169 | Sealed crown for watch casing The sealing device for a control member (17) is provided with a shaft (16) passing through a sealed casing and comprising a tube (1) driven into a bore (3) of the casing (4) . A shaft (16) of the control member (17) i... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6896403 | Mode selecting assembly for a timepiece The mode selecting assembly comprises a flexible hand, coupled to a frame in the casing, that has extending therefrom fingers that are sufficiently deflectable so as to deflect from first positions where they are not in contact with associated pads on a circuit boar... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6886975 | Watch To provide a watch in which, in case where a screw lock function has decreased, a part exchange around a crown is made possible while ensuring a waterproofness. To an outside winding stem pipe having a bridge portion and brazed to a case band there is passed an insi... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6872899 | Lockable pushbutton actuator for a display device such as a watch There is provided a button capable of entry and exit with respect to a base. The button has a button member, ring member, lock member, and fixed member. The button member has a shaft portion mounted in a manner that allows entry and exit with respect to the base, an... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6830371 | High accuracy timepiece An accuracy adjustment apparatus for a timepiece has an accuracy adjustment data input control section including a case-mounted switch such as a crown of the timepiece. A crown state detection signal is used to determine the state of the crown. When an accuracy adju... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6773157 | Setting assembly for an analog timepiece A time adjustment assembly for a timepiece comprises a fast hour wheel that is movable between a first position where it is not rotationally engageable with the hour wheel and a second position where it is rotationally engageable with the hour wheel; a corrector whe... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6719455 | Method for fixing a crown screwed on a watch case and watch case equipped with same The invention concerns a method for assembling a screwed crown on a watch case, characterized in that it includes the following steps: providing a crown with an inner threading the position of which is set with respect to the logo arranged on the front face o... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6679624 | Device for locking the winding button When using wristwatches for diving or action sports, it is desirable to be able to prevent the winding button from being pulled out inadvertently and the time unintentionally altered. To avoid this, the button (3) has the overall shape of an H and a lever... | 01/20/2004 |
