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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174936 | Timepiece with ringing mechanism A timepiece includes a movement and a current-time ringing mechanism that includes: an hour cam (40) for providing information on the hour of the current time to an hour sampler, quarter cam (28) for providing information on the quarters of the current... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7773463 | Timepiece comprising a minute repeater mechanism For a timepiece movement, a striking train mechanism having: at least one resonant element (32) which can emit at least two sounds of different frequencies, at least two pallets (36), and at least two hammers (34) which are designed to be driven... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7590030 | Governor and a power generating device and an apparatus using the governor It is intended to provide a governor that is small, does not produce wear particles or noise, is low cost, is not affected by differences in attitude, is not affected by magnetism, and has outstanding durability. The governor has a rotor that rotates using energy su... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7477574 | Decorative body driving mechanism A decorative body driving mechanism having a decorative body therein and at least one openable and closable door arranged in front of the decorative body, the mechanism includes a door open and close mechanism and a decorative body operating mechanism. The door open... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7443769 | Timepiece with a striking work including dual function locking lever The timepiece includes a striking mechanism (20) which includes a mobile part (60, 70), and a time-setting mechanism (16). The time-setting mechanism (16) cooperates via a first arm (72) with the mobile part (60) of the stri... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7420885 | Timepiece provided with open dial plate A watch with a clockwork comprising a ringer whose actuation is controlled from outside the watch by means of a control unit, a dial plate comprising an opening, a shutter (10) movable between a first position covering the opening and a second position leavin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420882 | Timepiece with a striking work including an isolating lever The timepiece includes a striking mechanism (20) which includes a mobile part (60, 70), and a time-setting mechanism (16) which cooperates with a winding stem (26). The time-setting mechanism (16) includes a pull-out piece (50 | 09/02/2008 |
| 7339855 | Timepiece A mechanical timepiece has an ornamental portion and a plurality of movable units operable to expose and hide the ornamental portion. Each of the movable units includes a divisional segment for exposing and hiding the ornamental portion by inward and outward movemen... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330403 | Timepiece including a striking mechanism with a single click The invention proposes a timepiece comprising a repeater striking mechanism (14), the striking mechanism being released either automatically, or manually by a manual control member (22), wherein the striking mechanism (14) includes a release lev... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7280440 | Timepiece including a control device for a striking mechanism fitted with a resilient transmission element The invention proposes a timepiece (10) including a striking mechanism (20), and including a control device (28) for activating an element (22) releasing the striking mechanism (20), via a control surface (64) carried by a p... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7187625 | Shofar timekeeping apparatus and method Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for audibly playing through a speaker (12) of a timekeeping apparatus (1) comprising a visual replica of a shofar (11), at least one shofar call sound (14) in response to a timing device (17 | 03/06/2007 |
| 6966779 | Educational audio/visual clock An educational audio visual clock having an image window adjacent each numeral on the clock face to show the images of twelve Presidents of the United States at any given time. Images are on an image plate behind the clock face and display the images of the first tw... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6898153 | Musical circle of fifths clock A musical circle of fifths clock that allows a user to tell practical time as well as hear musical scales at the turn of each hour. The clock has a housing having a face portion and a rear surface. A music generator, positioned within the clock housing, stores the m... | 05/24/2005 |
| 5959527 | Time triggered chime A chime activated by a clock to sound a pleasing sound every hour, by attaching a clock to an electrical controller that operates a striker mechanism. The striker mechanism, comprising a striker ball that strikes the chime elements when rotated provides a... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5506819 | Ornamental clock with sound-producing means An ornamental clock capable of producing motion and sounds including a vehicle frame having a base installed at its bottom. A clock slot is provided at an appropriate position of the vehicle frame for receiving a clock actuated by a clock movement. The or... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5452270 | Melody alarm timepiece Melodies are changed over sequentially in accordance with hours at each of which an alarm melody is to be played as a time signal so that predetermined melodies are always played at predetermined hours, respectively. In addition, even if the hours and the... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5402396 | Sunrise alarm clock radio In order to avoid erroneous manipulation of alarm ON/OFF and sleep buttons, on a clock radio type alarm, a night light is provided to illuminate at least these two buttons when the alarm ON/OFF button is set to it's ON position. An illumination level cont... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5363349 | Clock assembly having a rotating device A clock includes a base, a seat and a frame fixed above the base, a motor fixed on the seat, a tape device for telling time being disposed in the base and coupled to the motor so as to be driven by the motor. A head, a body, an arm, a leg are supported on... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5337291 | Easy setting hour repeating device An easy setting hour repeating device comprising mainly of a transmission shaft, a slot (or flange), a minute wheel, a cam claw, a short spring and a long spring, wherein the slot is provided at the side edge of the hand assembly section on the top of the... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5293356 | Vocal reporting device for pointer type timers with photoelectric calibration device A vocal reporting device for pointer type timers comprising a printed circuit board which converts the positions of the pointers into electric signals and sends the same to a microprocessor to broadcast the time associated therewith with a voice synthesiz... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5047998 | Timepiece with mobile decorations A timepiece with mobile decorations comprises: a roof disposed over a case body having a timepiece unit built therein; driving means to make said roof up and down while turning the same in response to a signal from the said timepiece unit; and mobile deco... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4896308 | Digital clock for giving acoustic time-indicating signals at predetermined moments A digital clock for giving acoustic time-indicating signals having an oscillator, a time integrated circuit driven by the oscillator, a first display element connected to the time integrated circuit to show hour and minute and, a second display element co... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4699518 | Musical scale generating circuit A musical scale generating circuit comprises an oscillator, a programmable frequency divider for frequency-dividing an output signal from the oscillator, a tone generating circuit for generating a tone, and a frequency dividing ratio data output circuit f... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4488820 | Time signalling device for a timepiece which produces musical sounds A device for generating musical time signalling signals for a timepiece in which combination of the data in ROM installed in the time signalling sound selecting circuit and the controlling action of the time signalling control circuit can simplify the cir... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4488272 | Musical door chime preferably also combined with a clock for annunciating the time A musical door chime which includes a repertoire of musical tunes one of which is played when a door pushbutton, preferably the front door pushbutton, is actuated. The musical tune which is played may be selected by means of a keyboard connected to a micr... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4472065 | Time read-out device for electronic clocks A device for converting pulses generated by a 7-segment, 12-hour clock unit of a standard electronic timepiece into a sequence of nonoptical time-indicating signals. The device comprises binary counter means for counting minutes and groups of 5-minute mul... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4464059 | Speech synthesizer timepiece with advance announcement In a preferred aspect of the present invention, there is provided a speech synthesizer timepiece with an alarm function or a remaining interval counting function. The timepiece is adapted to set advance announcements at different intervals depending upon ... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4391530 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece, which comprises a circuit for encoding an externally supplied voice and a semiconductor memory for memorizing the encoded voice data. The voice data memorized in the semiconductor memory is read out when a preset time is reached, ... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4386856 | Miniature electronic device having time informing sound generating function In a miniaturized electronic device having two time informing sound generating functions, namely time signaling and alarm sound generating functions, the volume of the sound produced is automatically controlled such that it is different at the time of the... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4358838 | Electronic timepiece with a time striking device An electronic timepiece with a time striking device including an electric preliminary signalling means, an electric time striking means, an electric contact means, a time striking selecting means, and a time striking timing circuit in which a timer circui... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4357692 | Bell-striking clock An electronic clock emitting half-hourly time signals corresponding to sh' bells comprises an electromagnetic striker driven by a crystal-controlled oscillator via a multistage binary frequency divider whose last several stages, with the exception of the... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4349899 | Music box having time-sounding function A music box having time-sounding function characterized in that a chime-zone with a row of chiming pins and a time-sounding zone with a row of time-sounding pins are formed on the periphery of a single rotatable drum in its rotating direction, said rows o... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4323995 | Chime unit for electric clock and mechanical clock The chime unit of pre-programmed melody type and that of programmable melody type for the electric clock and the mechanical clock. The chime units consist of the hour and the minute hands position sensing means using magnetic Reed switches or photo-transi... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4293940 | Time sound generating device A time sound generating device which generates a time announcement sound by detecting a change of time from a portion of a display element driving signal supplied to a time display element of a digital electronic clock and by driving an audio sound signal... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4279030 | Speech-synthesizer timepiece A speech-synthesizer timepiece is adapted to produce audible sounds indicative of updated time information at a desired point in time through the use of the speech synthesizing technique. To avoid the user's failure to listen to the audible sounds or to a... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4276625 | Bell-striking clock An electronic clock emitting half-hourly time signals corresponding to the strokes of ships' bells comprises an electromagnetic striker driven by a normally blocked astable multivibrator whenever the closure of contacts operated by an associated clockwork... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4271495 | Electronic clock with a chime system An electronic clock with a chime system has exclusively electronic processing for production of a variety of tone signal sequences consisting of known melodies or portions thereof and time-identifying sequences of strokes. The characteristic values of the... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4251877 | Clock, especially striker clock A signal-generating system for a striker clock comprises a clockwork-driven hour disk (12) having conductor tracks which coact with respective contact springs of an hour switch (13) whose pattern of energization changes from one quarter hour to the next, ... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4245336 | Electronic tone generator A digitized multifrequency tone generator comprising a memory having N readable word locations with each location containing an amplitude representing binary word, and with the total N binary words sequentially and collectively representing a period T | 01/13/1981 |
| 4234945 | Electronic timepiece with hourly strike mechanism An electronic timepiece having an acoustic hour information function in which a photosensitive switch mechanism essentially comprising a photosensitive element is provided to detect a quantity of light below a predetermined value in the surrounding enviro... | 11/18/1980 |
