Horology: time measuring systems or devices inventions 05/07

20070121424 - Arrangement for arranging the measurement of pressure in a wristop instrument: Arrangement for arranging the measurement of external pressure in a wristop instrument, such as a sports computer, a diving computer, a wristwatch, or similar. The arrangement in the instrument comprises an instrument body (1),- at least one watertight space inside the instrument body (1), and at least one circuit board... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121425 - Time zone identifier: A time zone identifier for a geographic location is generated by receiving a request, including a first information portion in the time zone identifier that represents a time difference between a standard time and a local base time for the geographic location, and, if there exists a rule specifying when... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070121426 - 24-hour watch or clock: A watch or clock has a face which is divided along its outer perimeter into 24 one-hour increments. The face is divided along an inner perimeter into incremental indicators for portions of each hour. The watch hands are reversed relative to conventional watch or clock faces, with the length of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070115759 - Time reception apparatus and wave clock: Code data indicated by a time code signal is judged according to the kind of a standard frequency broadcast to be received at the time of decoding the time code signal. For example, in the case of receiving a JJY standard frequency broadcast, the time code signal falls at time... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070115760 - Analog electronic clock: Impact detecting resistors (141), (143) of an impact detecting circuit (104) detect a counter electromotive force of a step motor (105) generated due to an impact. This counter electromotive force is amplified applying a predetermined period and a predetermined chopper-width by a chopper-amplifying waveform shaping circuit (118). Therefore, even a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070109915 - Oil change reminder system: A passive, manually operated counter conveniently displays a set of digits which define the mileage at which an oil change should be performed on a vehicle and a month display which defines the month of the next oil change.... Agent: Tim Cook

20070109916 - Annual calendar mechanism for watch movement: The invention concerns an annual calendar mechanism for a timepiece including a date disc (16) to which are thirty one figures are affixed each corresponding to an indication of a day of the month provided with a first inner toothing (20) including thirty one teeth (20a), a date drive wheel... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070109917 - Method and apparatus for changing mode in a portable terminal using timer: Provided are a method and an apparatus for automatically changing time-setting mode in a portable terminal using a timer. The method for changing a mode in a portable terminal having a timer includes the steps of displaying a time-setting mode and setting the timer of at least one mode with... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070109918 - 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 first transparent electrodes (45) on an interior face, a transparent rear... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070104032 - Watch housing: A watch housing comprising a main body and a data storage device. The data storage device has an internal memory and an interface to connect the internal memory to a computer for the exchange of data between the computer and the internal memory. The data storage device is securable to... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20070104033 - Sandglass assembly: A sandglass assembly comprises a seat having a stand shaft; a bottle being a transparent body and containing with sands; two symmetrical receiving grooves being formed within the bottle for receiving sands; a sand hole being formed between the two symmetrical receiving grooves for communicating the two receiving grooves; a... Agent: Lin Yuan-hsin Tsai

20070104034 - Lcd panel meter for a generator: The LCD panel meter simultaneously displays four items: 1) power output as a percentage of the generator's continuous rated output, 2) the graphical bar that corresponds to the percentage shown in item #1, 3) a non-resettable timer displaying the total run time of the generator since manufacture, and 4) a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (seattle Office)

20070104035 - Jewelry with detachable accessory: A watchcase assembly comprising a watchcase for housing a watch mechanism, a generally planar member or a generally ring-shaped member, and means for releasably connecting said member to the front of said watchcase, wherein said releasably connecting means comprises operable means manually actuable or depressible by one or more fingers... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070097792 - System of increasing outpatient medication compliance using reminder devices attached to containers at point of filing and associated methods: The present invention is a method of continuously increasing patient compliance with medication dosing regimen that does not rely on incremental effort, investment, and/or other patient resource. The method includes uploading compliance data from one or more electronically enhanced containers to a database, analyzing said uploaded compliance data, generating one... Agent: Mark Burrows

20070097793 - Electronic timer: An electronic timer having a memory for storing programming information including astronomical sunset, sunrise, evening, dawn or twilight data for at least one geographic location, a processor for generating a time controlled signal; and a switch, responsive to the time controlled signal, for receiving an input power from a power... Agent: Ketan S. Vakil, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070097794 - Timepiece with a fan-shaped hand motion display mechanism: There is provided a timepiece that has less number of components of a fan-shaped hand-motion display mechanism and provides greater freedom of the position where the fan-shaped hand-motion display mechanism is disposed. The timepiece with a fan-shaped hand-motion display mechanism according to the invention includes a column wheel having a... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Suite 1231

20070097795 - Timepiece with a calendar function and/or a time setting function, and method of assembling the timepiece: A timepiece with a calendar function. The timepiece includes a main plate (19) has a plurality of holes (76) arranged along the outer periphery of a ring-like day indicator (26) when the same is disposed concentrically on the main plate. When positioned, the day indicator (26) is disposed substantially concentrically... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070097796 - Antenna apparatus, receiving apparatus and watch using magnetic sensor: The antenna circuit 42 includes: an MI magnetic sensor having an electric property which changes in accordance with a magnetic field change; a radio-frequency signal generator S1 to apply a radio-frequency signal to the MI magnetic sensor Z1; an inverter 92 to invert the radio-frequency signal; an adder 94 to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070097797 - Tourbillon watch winder: A watch winder includes a watch carrier having a longitudinal axis, a continuous outer wall having a plurality of detectable features, and a watch holder to support the watch relative to the longitudinal axis so that the watch rotates upon rotation of the carrier about the longitudinal axis; a drive... Agent: William J. Mason Maccord Mason PLLC