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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364352 | Time measurement device and method A mechanism having at least a function of measuring an arbitrary elapsed time is provided, which disables the function from being reset after the function is started, and enables the function to be reset after the function is stopped. The function is continuously he... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7273135 | Low cost magnetic brakes and motion control devices manufactured from conductive loaded resin-based materials Magnetic brake components are formed of a conductive loaded resin-based material. The conductive loaded resin-based material comprises micron conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination of conductive powder and conductive fibers in a base resin host.... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7255452 | Plastic mirror assembly A mirror assembly particularly adapted for use with an exterior automotive fender includes a plastic housing and plastic reflective surface element or lens. The housing has a slot formed therein which receives a tab formed on the lens to enable the housing and the l... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7172302 | Electronic device with UV illumination arrangement An indicator hand illumination arrangement for use in an electronic device that comprises a casing, a dial positioned in the casing, at least one indicator hand positioned intermediate the dial and a cover for at least in part protecting the at least one indicator h... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170827 | Timepiece, having bearing portion formed of resin and wheel train The invention relates to a timepiece which has a resin bearing section. Moreover, the invention relates to a wheel train apparatus which has a resin bearing section. The invention is constituted by the timepiece provided with a gear wheel and supporting members whic... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167417 | Time correction system, time correction instruction device, pointer type timepiece, and time correction method A time correction system has a timepiece with pointers for displaying the time, and a correction instruction device. The correction instruction device has a timing section for timing reference time data, a time input section for inputting pointed time data correspon... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167420 | Timepiece including base plate formed of resin and wheel train The invention relates to a timepiece which has a resin substrate, rotors, and wheel trains, and relates to a wheel train apparatus which has a resin substrate, bearing members, gear wheel, and the like. The invention is constituted by a timepiece comprising; a gear ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7136327 | Teaching hands for an analog timepiece Novel hour and minute hands for teaching reading and passage of time on an analog timepiece. The invention comprises hour and minute hands located centrally and pivotally on the timepiece. The hour hand having at its outer tip a shape through which the hour numerals... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134784 | Rotating bezel watch The present invention discloses a rotating bezel watch including a watch face having an hour hand, minute hand and second hand connected at substantially a center of thereof and a rotatable bezel connected to the watch face. The watch further includes means for rota... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7061833 | Clocks with unique time displays which are interpreted by the use of traditional clock interpretation means Apparatus for the display of time with a distinctive aesthetic character that includes clear, rigid rotating indicator rings (22) and (24) which are externally driven by a clockwork (30). The clockwork (30) rotates drive wheels (26... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7038975 | Luminous hands and display device including the same, particularly in a timepiece 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... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031226 | Electronic timepiece including a game mode There is disclosed an electronic multi-function wristwatch one of whose operating modes is a memory game which uses the time display means of the watch. In the preferred version comprising an analogue time display, the watch randomly generates a sequence of visual i... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6999383 | Clock with luminous hands A clock with luminous hands has a clock panel with a front clock surface and a rear surface to which a hand-driving assembly and a power inverter are mounted. The hand-driving assembly has a pin protruding through the clock panel and extending from the front clock s... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6965543 | Radio controllable clock A radio controllable clock includes an analog display having a plurality of clock hands each fastened to a uniquely associated one of a plurality of clock hand shafts that each rotate about a common axis. The clock also includes a plurality of rotary gears each uniq... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6928031 | Alarm clock system, method of operation and program product therefor A programmable alarm clock system, method of operation and program product therefor with sleep analysis to identify and wake a person during non-REM sleep patterns, resulting in less subsequent drowsiness and better day-to-day functioning. The programmable alarm clo... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6831880 | Bowling ball slice display face A display face is created by cutting or slicing a bowling ball wherein a portion of a weight block or core center of the bowling ball is displayed. The weight block or core is different in different balls. Accordingly, a slice of the bowling ball with the weight blo... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6809993 | Electronic timepiece including a time related data item based on a decimal system The present invention relates to an electronic timepiece allowing the display of at least one first time related data item (H1) conventionally based on the Hour-Minute-Second system, and at least one second time related data item (H2) based on ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6798722 | Hand and timepiece using the hand To provide a hand, free from hand deviation and disengagement, having integrated engaging and wing portions and formed of a low-density material. A hand body has a wing portion for pointing a position and an engaging portion for engagement with a spindle of a... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6580665 | Electronic timepiece having power generating function An electronic timepiece is formed of a power generating device for generating power, a control device for driving on receipt of a power supply from the power generating device, a display device for displaying a time by an operation of the control device, ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6525997 | Efficient use of display real estate in a wrist watch display A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (e.g., a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from the network and a variety of other devices. The mobile computing device/appliance includes a user in... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6519853 | Method of manufacturing hand for analog electronic timepiece A pair of parallel rectangular windows are punched out in a thin sheet base material having the same thickness as that of a short hand part (13) including a weight part (13a) of a second hand (10) so as to form a hand forming part between the pair of wind... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6327226 | Clock with cam device To the spindles of the mechanism (1) of a wall clock or a table clock are mounted, in substitution of the hands, two couples of cams (8, 9 and 6, 7) which transmit respectively to hands (11 and 12) of the minutes and the hours rotating around a spindle (1... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6286991 | Crown control for enhanced quadribalanced digital time displays Quadribalanced digital time displays and methods comprising increasing digital minutes displayed on the right flank of centrally positioned digital present hours, in relatively upper and lower positions during the first and second quarter hours, followed ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 5797345 | Illuminated pointer for instrument gage Electrical instrument gage that has a pointer indicator member mounted on a rotatable shaft extending from the gage and including an electrically energizable light source mounted on and extending along the pointer portion of the indicator member. The ligh... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5751662 | Illuminating timepiece An illuminating timepiece includes: a casing having a plurality of hour numerals circumferentially disposed on a chapter ring of a dial of the casing, a plurality of stator illuminators each formed on each hour numeral on the dial, a first pointer or an h... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5697322 | Analog display having electroluminescent pointer An analog display includes a dial and a movable EL pointer positioned adjacent the dial for indicating a measured value. The pointer is an elongated EL lamp having a conductive pin extending through one end of the lamp and about which the lamp pivots. The... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5696740 | Timepiece for converting between military and civilian time A timepiece having an analog format with a face that has a first series of numbers and a second series of numbers, with the second series of numbers being concentrically aligned within the first series. Both series of numbers indicate civilian time and mi... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5673239 | Clock movement power transmission union An improved clock movement power transmission union is disclosed for saving space and providing flexibility of design options. It comprises: (a) a casing having main input and main output holes, wherein the main input and main output holes are disposed su... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5623456 | Electroluminescent indicator hand An improved electroluminescent indicator hand which is capable of emitting light from its entire surface area consists of an annular support member mounted on the hand shaft of a timepiece, an electroluminescent indicator hand secured on the support membe... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5602803 | Clocks with unique time displays Apparatus for the display of time, which includes a support frame and a driven gear having external teeth mounted to the support frame. The apparatus further includes a rigid annular member with internal teeth for engagement with the external teeth of the... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5323732 | Watch pointers with means for setting therein variable-size diamonds or other stones The present invention relates to watch pointers in which it is possible to set variable-size diamonds or other stones, the pointers including at least a recess in which it is possible to engage one or more stones, and also including fixing elements for fi... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5280461 | Single hand timepiece with sinusoidal display A timepiece is provided in the form of a body having a face which displays a sinusoidal path of multiples of twelve wavelengths within a circular periphery, and concentric rings on the face which intersect the path. An arm rotates about the center of the ... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5172350 | Timekeeping device Timekeeping devices such as clocks and watches have an aesthetically attractive single-hand indicator for the time-of-day. The single hand moves to indicate changing time relative to a substantially immobile face, preferably marked with an aesthetic desig... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5130956 | Clock A driving mechanism is arranged in a hand for relatively rotating the hand in relation to a shaft which supports the hand, and clocking is thereby performed.... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5105398 | Three hands type clock with belt drive A three-handed clock has a single movement to rotationally drive the second, minute and hour hands. The rotary output of the movement is transmitted directly to the second hand and is transmitted through a transmission belt to the minute and hour hands. T... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5103434 | Single-handed analog timepiece An all analog timepiece having a face with a center-point and a periphery and a single distinguishable time indicating hand rotatably mounted to the face at a periphery point. The single hand rotates about the periphery point at a first rate while the fac... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5025429 | Electric power supply device for hand with load A timepiece has rotatable hour, minute and second hands each carrying an energizeable element. Electric power is supplied to the elements carried by the hour and minute hands through sliding contacts and is supplied to the element carried by the second ha... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4993005 | Power supply system for luminous hands A power supply system for luminous hands wherein an hour and a minute hand have electroluminescence elements and a second hand has a light-emitting diode. The power supply system comprises a drive signal generator for generating a mixed signal consisting ... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4885731 | Child's easy-to-read timepiece An analog timepiece face that contains a smaller hour portion (A) concentrically positioned within a larger minute portion (B). The hour portion has a hour hand (C) and hour division marks (F) marking each interval of time on the peripheral hour track (E)... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4858210 | Apparatus with synthetic resin hand shaft An apparatus has a hand shaft formed of synthetic resin which has a first hand shaft portion and a second hand shaft portion having an insertion hole into which the first hand shaft portion is inserted to be rotatable. The first hand shaft portion is form... | 08/15/1989 |
