Horology: time measuring systems or devices inventions 09/07

20070223317 - Printed circuit board having battery holder: A printed circuit board includes a board, an electronic component mounted on the board, and a battery holder for holding a battery that has a positive pole and a negative pole. The battery holder includes a housing, and two contacts assembled to the housing and respectively electrically connected to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070223315 - Article wrapped in a protective film: An article such as wristwatch that has a contoured front face and a rear face that is generally flat or can be presented in a generally flat configuration can be intimately wrapped in a close-fitting transparent protective film of skin-wrapped plastics material. The wrapping extends continuously over the article's front... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070223316 - Watch displaying the date and indicating astronomical information: In order to display alternately various parameters in the same aperture (46) of a dial or possibly in distinct apertures, the watch is provided with a rotating display disc (51) which includes a series (60) of numbers, representing the dates (1-31) on one part of its circumference and, on the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070223318 - Watch with generator: Watch including an electric generator module actuated by an oscillating mass following the wearer's movements. The oscillating mass is visible behind a glass of the dial next to the time display. The watch also includes a display mode of the run reserve and of the energy balance.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070223319 - Interlockable watchwinder: A watchwinder adapted for home use or in a retail store environment includes a horizontal dovetail groove or channel on the top, bottom and side surfaces of the watchwinder housing which cooperates with a removable interlocking bar or rail of mating dovetail shape to selectively and detachably interconnect adjacent watchwinders... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070217290 - Lights out alarm clock assembly: An alarm clock assembly of an embodiment of the present invention is provided that also turns off a non-integrated, connected lamp or other electrical device based on pushing a button on the clock. The alarm clock assembly also has input means for setting a timer to turn off the connected... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070217291 - Device and method for managing time information: Disclosed is a device and method for managing time information in a mobile communication terminal. To this end, the present invention provides a plan in which time information of a terminal can be automatically set with the local time of a corresponding time zone as a reference in accordance with... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070217292 - Digital calendar: A novel digital calendar is disclosed for the retention of a user's schedule and events, and for displaying and communicating the user's schedule and events pursuant to an instruction set that manages the operations of the digital calendar. The digital calendar comprises an oversized display that is retained in a... Agent: Christopher D. Harrington

20070217293 - Decorative product and timepiece: A decorative product having a base member composed of primarily an Fe—Cr alloy, and an austenite layer that is austenitized by adding nitrogen atoms near the surface of the base member.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070211575 - Clock with selected audio messages: A clock, preferably a clock radio, has a solid state memory or other storage medium such as a CD player, containing many messages, each of which preferably is appropriate to a particular date, time of day, week, season, etc. The clock is self-contained, without connection to any network for source... Agent: Thomas M. Freiburger

20070211576 - Electronically controlled water clock that includes visual displays for the passage of hours, minutes and seconds: An electronically controlled water clock designed to visually display the passage of hours, minutes and seconds by the gravitationally induced flowing away of liquid material inside transparent vessels, with each unit of time displayed in a separate vessel. Each vessel consists of an upper and lower chamber and an air... Agent: Chris Borg

20070211577 - Shock-activated switch device: A shock-activated switch device comprises a piezoelectric buzzer having a body for receiving a mechanical shock and a terminal for outputting an electrical output signal when the body receives a mechanical shock, and an output circuit connected to the terminal for converting the output signal into a logic signal for... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070211578 - Watch and clip: A watch clip includes a back plate having front and back surfaces, and a spring body having first and second ends and an arched shape, the first end being coupled to the back surface of the back plate. The clip also includes a compression latch rotatably coupled to the second... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070206442 - Method of updating daylight saving time information in wireless terminal: Provided in a method of updating DST information in a wireless terminal, whereby the wireless terminal correctly and conveniently provides world time in consideration of the DST information. The method includes the steps of: transmitting, by a second server receiving DST information in real-time, the received DST information to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070206443 - Method and system for providing user interface of calendar planner application in mobile phone: A method and system for providing a user interface for a calendar planner application in a mobile phone. The method includes determining whether a string of digits is input, displaying the string of digits if at least one digit is input, counting the number of digits in the string, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070206444 - Clock diagnostics: Disclosed is a clock for use in a master/slave clock system, including a system and method for semi-automatically performing diagnostic self-tests on the status and operability of a plurality of components of one or more secondary clocks. The invention addresses a multitude of diagnostic and problem detection issues, including “no... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070206445 - Clock diagnostics: Disclosed is a clock for use in a master/slave clock system, including a system and method for semi-automatically performing diagnostic self-tests on the status and operability of a plurality of components of one or more secondary clocks. The invention addresses a multitude of diagnostic and problem detection issues, including “no... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070206446 - Clock diagnostics: Disclosed is a clock for use in a master/slave clock system, including a system and method for semi-automatically performing diagnostic self-tests on the status and operability of a plurality of components of one or more secondary clocks. The invention addresses a multitude of diagnostic and problem detection issues, including “no... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070206447 - Chronograph timepiece: The chronograph watch 1 according to the present invention includes an hour counting wheel 25, a second counting wheel 40, and a minute counting wheel 60 distant from each other in a planar direction, and is provided with a hammer 160 for substantially simultaneously and mechanically zero-resetting the hour counting... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP