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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7978566 | Timing apparatus for alerting a user when time has elapsed A timing apparatus for alerting a user when time has elapsed which comprises a base. A post extends vertically and centrally from the base. A mechanism extends through the base and the post, for indicating when a set time has elapsed. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7755977 | Display unit with decorative effects for a portable instrument, such as a watch The display unit (2) equips a portable instrument, such as a wristwatch (1) with hands (13, 14, 15) for indicating the time. The unit comprises at least one display cell (4) which comprises a transparent front substrate (41) having... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7388813 | Time display device A time display device which utilizes light beams to display time is disclosed. The time display device at least comprises a timetable panel, an illuminant module, a counter unit, and a control unit. When the counter unit sends a counting result to the control unit, ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385879 | Radio-controlled clock A radio-controlled clock (RCC) for receiving and decoding a transmitted time signal to display a precise time in accordance with a time standard. A light emitting diode (LED) display emits sufficient light for easy readability under all lighting conditions, includin... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7286445 | Unified digital time displays A unified digital time display is presented in an expanded display field and configured for compatibility with prior balanced, quadribalanced, enhanced quadribalanced or unidirectional segmented displays by positioning hour display elements generally in the center o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7221044 | Heterogeneous integrated high voltage DC/AC light emitter A single-chip integrated LED particularly adapted for direct use with a high voltage DC or AC power sources comprises a plurality of electrically isolated LEDs on a generally transparent substrate and bonded to electrically conductive elements on a thermally conduct... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7180095 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof In a display device including thin film transistors formed on an insulation substrate, the thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode and a gate insulation film which is interposed between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. Th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7152987 | Instrument for vehicle An instrument for a vehicle, by which an instrument board thereof can be seen as well at night as in the daytime is provided. In the instrument, an illuminating panel 50 including a prism sheet 50a transforms light from an LED 50b ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7129529 | Light emitting module The light emitting module includes a substrate, a light emitting element and a driving circuit chip. The light emitting element is attached to the substrate and has a plurality of first contacts on a top surface thereof. The driving circuit chip is attached onto the... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7063429 | Light-emitting display device using light-emitting element and electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus has a light-emitting element and a light-emitting portion. An output light from the light-emitting element is guided by a frame-like member having serrations and radiated toward the light-emitting portion. This causes the light-emitting porti... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7002531 | System and method for driving a display The present invention provides a controller of a panel driver that makes a determination as to the display color by which information to be displayed is displayed, reports a driving method corresponding to this display color to a driving method control circuit, and ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6894440 | Method and device for lighting an electronic or electromechanical apparatus The present invention is a lighting device for an electronic or electromechanical apparatus such as a timepiece of the wristwatch type. The invention including a device displaying time-related or other information, this lighting device including a light source for l... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6690623 | Multi-functional time indicating device with a multi-colored fiber optic display A multi-functional timepiece with multicolor time display is a watch or free-standing clock in which the current time is determined by the use of a series of colored lights around the face of the watch. The face has the current layout associated with conv... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6683822 | Time display device The invention provides an enhanced structure of a time display device includes a circle with 60 display units on the circumference of the clock face, among which 12 display units are made larger for displaying hour of time (hour display units) and the res... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6549179 | LED display assembly Surface mounted LEDs are arrayed in special patterns to provide a relatively high resolution dot-matrix visual display and/or multi-segment character displays. Especially abbreviated solder bonding pads are utilized to obtain a higher density packing of t... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6388642 | Bidirectional multispeed indexing control system A bidirectional multispeed indexing control system for a display unit which has an increment input and a decrement input so as to be controllable to sequentially index through an ordered list of discrete elements. The control system has a two-button user ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6307527 | LED display assembly Surface mounted LEDs are arrayed in special patterns to provide a relatively high resolution dot-matrix visual display and/or multi-segment character displays. Especially abbreviated solder bonding pads are utilized to obtain a higher density packing of t... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6147935 | Transformerless LED digital alarm clock A transformerless LED digital display clock circuitry using AC line voltage as a primary source of power is disclosed. The AC line voltage is substantially reduced to around 10 volts or less and then rectified to provide DC power to the quartz analog cloc... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5917779 | Transformerless LED driving circuit A transformerless oven timer which uses a 20 pin microcontroller connected to light emitting diodes. The microcontroller has 2 Kbytes of 8 bit read only memory and has software etched therein. The microcontroller can transfer power and voltage to the ligh... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5896348 | Method and timepiece for displaying time using grouped binary indicators A novel method or convention of tracking and displaying the passage of time can be implemented in a variety of decorative and interesting timepiece configurations. Three groups of indicators are used. Each group of indicators is distinguishable from the o... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5818798 | Timepiece with integral alphanumeric display A timepiece having a novel display with an integral alphanumeric display is described. The display includes alternating light and dark bands to assist in the determination by a user of the current time. The display includes two columns of a dozen hourly i... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5805534 | Positionally consistent, balanced digital time displays In a balanced digital time display and method which displays current hours with elapsed unit minutes to the right thereof and next hours with remaining unit minutes to the left thereof, complete positional consistency is achieved by displaying nonsignific... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5623273 | Week-day and/or time display system for a data display radio pager A system applicable to a data display radio pager for displaying week-day and/or time by a plurality of elements or segments implemented by light emitting diodes (LEDs) or similar devices. Week-day is represented by two characters, i.e., the first charact... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5410520 | Spatial/digital timepiece A timepiece combines benefits of analog and digital displays in a format that is both easy to read and precise. The face of the timepiece includes a plurality of selectably displayable LCD numbers spaced about its periphery. Driving circuitry activates ce... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5008870 | FIFO clock An electronic timepiece having a display with a center position and twelve columns. Each of the columns having at least five display elements extending in a radial direction from the center position. The display elements of each of the twelve columns defi... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4939709 | Electronic visual display system for simulating the motion of a clock pendulum A visual device for simulating the motion of a clock pendulum consisting of a series of light emitting diodes having the property of emitting two distinct colors and electronic logic arranged to activate sequentially the series in one color in one directi... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4920524 | Multimode digital timepiece The dial of a timepiece is provided with a first circular array of twelve blue LEDs indicating hours, a second next-outermost array of sixty red LEDs indicating minutes, and a third next-outermost array of sixty green LEDs indicating seconds. Every fifth ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4803672 | Electric timepiece An electric timepiece having a square dial with corners at the twelve, three, six and nine o'clock positions has a first array of twelve light sources at one to twelve o'clock positions, a second array of four light sources which are inwardly adjacent the... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4771409 | Electronic analogue display An analogue display has a circle of electrically-energizable elements that are selectively energized so as to represent time. A rotatable setting wheel has a knurled edge that projects from the display casing. A leaf spring engages the knurled edge, the s... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4757484 | Mayan Symbol-bearing clock device The clock device has a hollow housing bearing readily viewable adjacent first, second and illuminatable display panels, the first panel bearing the hour indicator and an inverted V indicating zero, four dots indicating ones and two horizontal bars each in... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4752919 | Clock with digital hour station and line of discrete, binary minute substations The time of day is displayed on clock face (10) through the use of two, two-digit numerical stations (20) and (30) and a minutes scale comprised of marks (40). The left-hand station (20) indicates the actual hour of the day and the right-hand station (30)... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4747086 | Digital watch with fluorescent display and mercury coated crystal A digital watch has a fluorescent display which is selectively actuated by depressing a button which extends through the watch casing. The watch crystal is formed from a scratch resistant mineral glass, and has a thin film mercury coating on the inner sur... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4707141 | Variable color analog timepiece A timepiece includes a variable color display for providing an analog indication of time and a transducer for measuring values of a diverse quantity. The color of the analog indication may be controlled in a plurality of steps in accordance with the outpu... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4702615 | Analog display timepiece A timepiece includes a variable color display for providing an analog indication of time in a color in accordance with the relation of the indicated time to predetermined time limits.... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4597674 | Multiplex digital clock Different from a standard digital display utilizing separate digits for seconds, minutes and hours, an electronic timepiece which uses tow digits composed of triads of red, green and yellow L.E.D.s. Each L.E.D. color is synchronically sequenced and each p... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4459035 | All solid-state complementary electrochromic display device EC display device suitable for drive by means of a charge transfer method which is one of the methods for realizing a constant charge drive, in which all the members comprise solid materials only and a reduction coloration type EC material and an oxidatio... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4448544 | Method and apparatus to digitally display the time of day A simplified dual format time display provides easy-to-read "count up" and "count down" digital readouts which indicate either the hour and the minutes after the hour or the next hour and the minutes before the next hour using conventionally positioned ho... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4290131 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece having time indicating hands driven by a motor through a gear train, and having an analog-to-digital conversion system for time data comprising code disks rotated by the wheel train to provide hours and minutes information in digit... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4258431 | Electronic timepiece having an analog display device and a digital display device An electronic timepiece having both time indicating hands and an electro-optical time display, wherein individual digits of the electro-optical display can be selected for correction and wherein correction of a digit causes the time indicating hands to ad... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4255806 | Display means for chronometers with electro-optical elements A display for an electronic timepiece or the like has an analog electro-optical display comprising a plurality of segment electrodes radially disposed about a center point and at least one first counterelectrode each bridging at least two radial segment e... | 03/10/1981 |
