Horology: time measuring systems or devices inventions 06/07

20070147176 - Mechanism displaying values in variable cycles, particularly in a lunisolar calendar: The invention concerns a lunar month display mechanism, for a lunisolar calendar mechanism. The mechanism includes concentrically a plate, which determines the position of the additional month in the bissextile years. The plate is provided with a hand associated with a scale of twelve months and carries a planetary wheel... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070147174 - Mechanical golf counter: A golf counter is constructed in a completely mechanical manner and includes a first counting mechanism with a display (202) for counting a number of strokes per hole, a second counting mechanism with a display (203) of a total number of strokes, and a third counting mechanism with a display... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070147175 - Daylight saving time support for mobile devices: The invention relates to a method for updating a time marking according to new location, wherein a country related information is detected, a need for time update is determined, and if needed, time rules corresponding to said country related information is retrieved and the time is updated according to said... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070147177 - Calendar watch provided with locking means: The invention concerns a calendar watch arranged to allow time-setting to be carried out without this operation altering the state of the calendar mechanism at the passage to midnight. This mechanism, which is of the instantaneous date type, includes a large lever (2) loaded by a spring and wound by... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070147178 - File management apparatus and image display apparatus: A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a representative image storage device storing representative image data of each of a plurality of content files in association with a creation time of the content file; a rendering unit rendering the representative image data at a position corresponding to the creation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147179 - Timepiece with a constant-force device for acting on an oscillating system: A timepiece, in particular a wristwatch, includes a constant-force device for acting on an oscillating system, the constant-force device including a switching unit and a tensioning module having a primary spring-energy store and a secondary spring-energy store. A seconds shaft bearing a seconds wheel and a cam plate is driven... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070147180 - Mechanical timepiece including means for adjusting the shake of a rotating part or wheel set: The timepiece includes means for adjusting the shake of a rotating part, in particular a balance, one of whose bearings is arranged in a bar (4). This bar includes a first part (16) secured to the bottom plate (14) in a rigid and invariable manner. It further includes a second... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070147182 - Child's training clock and organizer: The Child's Training Clock and Organizer is an apparatus designed to help teach children the concepts of telling and measuring time, scheduling, and time management. This is done with a dual 12 hour clock set up and event markers that can be placed on the clock faces and/or a hanging... Agent: Michael A. Witchey

20070147181 - Time display: A novel time display utilizes emphasized segments of geometric shapes to represent hours. Minutes and seconds are displayed in emphasized lozenges which are arranged around the shapes. Because the number of seconds in a minute is the same as the number of minutes in an hour, the displays can be... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20070147183 - 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 lever (24) fitted with a click (26) which meshes with the teeth of a ratchet detent... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070147184 - Timepiece: To provide a timepiece in which it has been made possible to exchange an edge member, to which a glass has been fixed, without accompanying a case band. A wristwatch comprises an annular case band, a case back, an annular edge member, a glass, and an attaching member. A fitting... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Suite 1231

20070147185 - Timepiece: To provide a timepiece in which it has been made possible to exchange an edge member, to which a glass has been fixed, without accompanying a case band. A wristwatch comprises an annular case band, a case back, an annular edge member, a glass, and a C-shaped spring member. A... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Suite 1231

20070147186 - Control device with a disengageable crown for a wristwatch: A device includes a supporting tube fixed at the case of a watch, a drive shaft with teeth extending inside the supporting tube for controlling at least one function of the watch, a crown having a crown's head and a tube with teeth integral with the crown's head that is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070140063 - Single dynamic source controlled two groups of hands in clockwise/anticlockwise rotating structure: A single dynamic source controlled two hands group in clockwise/anticlockwise rotating structure, which sets two groups of numbered face in reverse direction on face of wristwatch, each numbered face has hour, minute and second hand, wherein active shaft of one hands group is driven by active gear, and passive shaft... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070140064 - Radio-controlled timepiece and method of adjusting the time kept by a radio-controlled timepiece: A radio-controlled timepiece can adjust the time with a short reception process while also reducing the likelihood of incorrect adjustment. The radio-controlled timepiece has a reception control means 31, time information updating means 32, time adjustment storage means 33, and time display means. The reception control means 31 has a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070140061 - Daylight saving time support for mobile devices: The invention relates to a method for updating a time marking according to new location, wherein a country related information is detected, a need for time update is determined, and if needed, time rules corresponding to said country related information is retrieved and the time is updated according to said... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070140062 - Daylight saving time support for mobile devices: The invention relates to a method for updating a time marking according to new location, wherein a country related information is detected, a need for time update is determined, and if needed, time rules corresponding to said country related information is retrieved and the time is updated according to said... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070140066 - Anti-trip device for timepiece escapement: The anti-trip device for a timepiece escapement essentially includes a sprung balance (1), this device preventing the angular extension of said balance beyond a normal angle of rotation. The device is characterized in that the arbour (2) fitted to the balance (1) is provided with a pinion (3) meshing with... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070140065 - Balance wheel, balance spring and other components and assemblies for a mechanical oscillator system and methods of manufacture: The application discloses a method of making a balance spring (100) from continuous fibres or ceramic by winding them around a cylindrical former (90), interspaced with a releasing agent (110). Also disclosed is a method of making a balance spring, preferably of a ceramic material (60), by applying it to... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070140067 - Timepiece with sound generator: A timepiece includes a casing having a casing interior having a viewer's side provided with a viewing opening, a base side provided with a sound aperture, and an annular surface surrounding the sound aperture. A membrane extending over the sound aperture closes the base side of the casing interior, the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070140068 - Three-dimensional dye migration time indicator: The present invention provides a time indicator and method of use for determining and visually displaying the passage of a predetermined period of time. The time indicator of the present invention comprises a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion is a multi-layer segment comprising a dye support... Agent: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.

20070133355 - Timepiece and spring thereof: [Means] A mainspring used as a source to power a drive source is formed from a special titanium alloy and has an S-shape when freely spread out, wherein the inflection point at which the curving direction of the freely spread-out shape changes is formed farther inward than the midpoint of... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070133356 - Alarm system with a plurality of interactive alarm units: An alarm system is formed of a network of alarm units that interact with each other to form a neighborhood watch type of alarm network. Each alarm unit transmits its own alarm condition and separately transmits its own user data to other alarm units in the network and in turn... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070127317 - Recording alarm clock for special occasions: An apparatus for reminding individuals of preselected important times and dates such individuals wish to remember. The apparatus includes a housing member having each of a predetermined shape, a predetermined size and a predetermined color. There is an audio receiving and recording mechanism disposed within such housing member for both... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20070127318 - Time stamping events for fractions of a clock cycle: Generally, the embodiments are directed to circuits and methods for time stamping an event at a fraction of a clock cycle. A time stamping circuit comprises two or more detection circuits. The detection circuits receive an event-in signal and generate event signals based on a clock phase at which the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070127319 - Watch whose movement includes a constant force device: The movement (1) of the watch includes a constant force device (14) inserted in a going rain connecting a spring barrel (2) to an escapement having an escapement wheel and including a third wheel which completes one revolution in several minutes. The input element of the constant force device (14)... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC