G04B17/285

Horological carriage-stop with carriage stop strip
11604434 · 2023-03-14 · ·

A limiting device including an oscillator and capable of blocking this oscillator carried by the carriage of a tourbillon or karussel, which carriage includes a carriage wheel driven by an energy source of the watch or of a movement with a gear train, and carries an escapement mechanism engaging with the oscillator and including an escape pinion, this device includes a control rod, engaging with a control member external to this tourbillon or karussel, in order to push, substantially radially relative to the carriage axis, a resilient strip arranged so as to bear tangentially against the carriage wheel in order to stop the carriage upon passage of the control member from a rest position to an active position, and so as to remain remote from the carriage wheel when the control member is in the rest position thereof.

HOROLOGICAL STOPPING MECHANISM

A horological mechanism (100) including a controller (300) for controlling the stopping or release of a wheel (200), and a stopping lever (10) guided on a structure (400) and which includes a first arm (16) carrying a control finger (12) that can be set by the controller, and a second arm (17) carrying a stopping finger (13) arranged to bear against the wheel (200) or to release it, and a flexible arm (15), more flexible than the first arm (16) and arranged to bear against a first fixed banking (42) of the structure (400), and which allows the movement of the stopping lever (10) in a single configuration for driving the control finger (12) by the controller pushing the control finger (12), to move the second arm (17) and stop the movement of the wheel (200).

Timepiece comprising a tourbillon

The timepiece includes a tourbillon including a carriage that bears a sprung balance and a magnetic escapement device, the latter including an escape wheel set, formed of an annular magnetic structure, and a magnetic element coupled with the magnetic structure and having an oscillating movement that is synchronous with the oscillation of the mechanical resonator. The mechanical escapement is arranged so as to have alternately energy accumulation phases, from a conversion of mechanical energy supplied by the barrel into magnetic potential energy in the magnetic escapement, and transfer phases of energy accumulated in the magnetic escapement to the magnetic resonator. During the energy transfer phases, the magnetic element is subjected to a magnetic force such that the magnetic escapement then converts into mechanical energy magnetic potential energy accumulated in the preceding energy accumulation phase to be able to maintain the oscillation of the mechanical resonator.

HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT COMPRISING A MOVABLE MEMBER PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR VARIABLY ADJUSTING THE INCLINATION
20230185239 · 2023-06-15 · ·

A horological movement including a plate (33) configured to support other parts of the movement, such as a movable member, the member extending at least in part along a second plane and including drive means provided with a gear train (98), an activation toothing, and variable adjustor (30, 40, 130) for variably adjusting the inclination of the member relative to the plate (33), so that the second plane forms an angle of variable value with the first plane of the plate (33).

HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT COMPRISING A MEMBER PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR VARIABLY ADJUSTING THE INCLINATION
20230185243 · 2023-06-15 · ·

A horological movement including a plate (33) extending substantially in a first plane and being configured to support the other parts of the movement, such as a member extending at least in part along a second plane. The horological movement includes variable adjustment means (30, 40, 130) for variably adjusting the inclination of the member (1, 10, 100) relative to the plate (33). The variable adjustment means includes an inclining bridge (7, 57, 107) on which the member (1, 10, 100) is mounted, the inclining bridge (7, 57, 107) being inclining relative to the plate (33), such that the second plane forms an angle of variable value with the first plane of the plate (33).

HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT COMPRISING A REGULATING MEMBER PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR VARIABLY ADJUSTING THE INCLINATION
20230185244 · 2023-06-15 · ·

A horological movement including a plate (33) extending substantially in a first plane and configured to support other parts of the movement, the movement including drive means provided with a gear train (98), a regulating member (1) provided with an inertial mass (3), a guide and an elastic return member (4) for the inertial mass (3) configured to cause it to oscillate in a second plane, as well as an escapement mechanism (25) cooperating with the inertial mass (3), the regulating member (1) being arranged on the plate. A variable adjustment device (30) variably adjusts the inclination of the regulating member (1) relative to the plate (33), such that the second plane of the inertial mass (3) form an angle of variable value with the first plane of the plate (33).

Magnetic or electrostatic pivoting of a mobile timepiece element

A timepiece sub-assembly including a mobile timepiece element including first and second annular and opposite peripheral surfaces of revolution about a same pivot axis, and a device for guiding pivoting about a theoretical axis of a timepiece mechanism. The first surface is magnetically or electrically charged, and the device includes at least three first surfaces regularly arranged around the theoretical axis, oppositely magnetically or respectively electrically charged to the first surface to repulse it at a first interface. In a watch, the second surface is magnetically or electrically charged, and the device includes at least three second surfaces regularly arranged around the theoretical axis, oppositely magnetically or electrically charged to the second surface to repulse it at a second interface.

DEVICE FOR TEMPORARILY STOPPING THE OPERATION OF A MECHANICAL WATCH
20220269220 · 2022-08-25 · ·

A device (100) to temporarily stop the operation of a mechanical watch, in particular when time resetting the watch. The device includes at least three levers (4) assembled and disposed in a circle on a plate of the mechanical horological movement. At least one action member (2) of the levers (4) is provided to switch them together from a rest mode to an active mode to act on a stop lever (17) of the device. The stop lever is arranged to temporarily stop a balance spring (14) of the mechanical movement. The activation of the stop lever (17) is performed by at least one of the levers (4) regardless of the position of the stop lever (17).

TOURBILLON FOR A HOROLOGY MOVEMENT
20220197219 · 2022-06-23 ·

Disclosed is a tourbillon for a horology movement including a cage rotatably mounted on the horology movement, the cage bearing a regulating organ including a balance including a balance pivot pivotally mounted in balance bearings about a balance axis with an anchor including an anchor pivot pivotally mounted in anchor bearings about an anchor axis and arranged to cooperate both with the regulating organ and also with an escapement wheel including an escapement pivot pivotally mounted in escapement bearings about an escapement axis. The anchor and the escapement wheel are positioned relative to the balance so the distance between the anchor axis and the balance axis and the distance between the escapement axis and the balance axis are greater than the outer radius of the balance. Also disclosed is a movement including such a tourbillon as well as to a timepiece including such a movement.

Retrograde tourbillon or karussel for timepieces
11360432 · 2022-06-14 · ·

A timepiece movement with a regulating member which is a tourbillon or carousel, also known as a karussel, and including a drive mechanism, with a pivoting arm subjected to the restoring torque of a first energy source and carrying a mechanism comprising a wheel, a second energy source that subjects to a restoring torque a third wheel set on which the wheel rolls, under the action of the first energy source, the structure carries stop means cooperating with complementary stop means of the third wheel set to hold the latter in position, which are uncouple-able under the action of uncoupling control means of the arm at the end of the forward angular travel of the arm to allow the third wheel set to pivot in a single direction under the action of the second energy source, causing a backward rotation of the arm to the start of its angular travel.