Horology: time measuring systems or devices inventions 10/08

20080259734 - Systems and methods for creating personalized calendars: In one embodiment, a system or system for creating a personalized calendar includes prompting a user to select a date cell of a representation of a calendar to indicate a desire to add user content to that date cell, receiving the date cell selection, prompting the user to select user... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259735 - Time control apparatus and method of terminal: A time control apparatus, which is not equipped with an auxiliary batter for real time control, includes a time information memory for storing real time information updated for a user; and a real time controller, in response to powering on, if the real time information stored in the time information... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080259736 - User interface for timer: A timer has a dial, a captured tripper, and/or a retainer. The captured tripper has active and inactive positions on the dial. In the inactive position, the captured tripper is captured to the dial but is free to move independently of the dial. Alternatively or additionally, in the inactive position,... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080259737 - Escapement including two escape wheels: The escapement includes first (1) and second (2) escape wheels each driven by independent gear trains and barrels. The system includes a brake lever (8) cooperating with an impulse pin (7) of the roller (4) and with the escape wheels via locking pallet stones (12, 13). The roller carries pallet... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259738 - Direct impulse escapement for timepiece: The timepiece escapement includes first (3) and second (4) impulse pallet stones secured to the balance (2) directly cooperating with the teeth of the escape wheel set (1) and a brake lever (5) periodically driven by the balance, said brake lever being provided with first (6) and second (7) locking... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259739 - Lever escapement for a timepiece: The lever escapement includes at least one escape wheel (2). The pallet assembly (5) is fitted with locking pallet stones (6, 7) and a first impulse pallet stone (8) cooperating with the teeth of the wheel (2). The pallet assembly (5) drives an auxiliary wheel set (9) carrying a second... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259740 - Correcting device for a timepiece: The invention concerns a corrector device for a timepiece for correcting a piece of information provided by an indicator mechanism (46), the timepiece comprising a case (1) delimiting a volume (8), the device being characterised in that it includes a control lever (14) located outside the volume (8) of the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259741 - Timepiece comprising an improved time-setting device: According to the invention, the time-setting device (18) of the timepiece includes a time-setting lever (62) which carries a coupling device (64) and the pivoting of which is controlled between an uncoupled position and a coupled position corresponding to the time-setting position of the winding stem (22). The coupling device... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259742 - Methods and systems for controlling alarm clocks: Methods for controlling an alarm clock, employed in a mobile electronic device, are provided. An embodiment of a method for controlling an alarm clock comprises the mobile electronic device sounding when reaching a preset alarm time. The mobile electronic device stops sounding the alarm when detecting a first signal. It... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259734 - Systems and methods for creating personalized calendars: In one embodiment, a system or system for creating a personalized calendar includes prompting a user to select a date cell of a representation of a calendar to indicate a desire to add user content to that date cell, receiving the date cell selection, prompting the user to select user... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259735 - Time control apparatus and method of terminal: A time control apparatus, which is not equipped with an auxiliary batter for real time control, includes a time information memory for storing real time information updated for a user; and a real time controller, in response to powering on, if the real time information stored in the time information... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080259736 - User interface for timer: A timer has a dial, a captured tripper, and/or a retainer. The captured tripper has active and inactive positions on the dial. In the inactive position, the captured tripper is captured to the dial but is free to move independently of the dial. Alternatively or additionally, in the inactive position,... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080259737 - Escapement including two escape wheels: The escapement includes first (1) and second (2) escape wheels each driven by independent gear trains and barrels. The system includes a brake lever (8) cooperating with an impulse pin (7) of the roller (4) and with the escape wheels via locking pallet stones (12, 13). The roller carries pallet... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259738 - Direct impulse escapement for timepiece: The timepiece escapement includes first (3) and second (4) impulse pallet stones secured to the balance (2) directly cooperating with the teeth of the escape wheel set (1) and a brake lever (5) periodically driven by the balance, said brake lever being provided with first (6) and second (7) locking... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259739 - Lever escapement for a timepiece: The lever escapement includes at least one escape wheel (2). The pallet assembly (5) is fitted with locking pallet stones (6, 7) and a first impulse pallet stone (8) cooperating with the teeth of the wheel (2). The pallet assembly (5) drives an auxiliary wheel set (9) carrying a second... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259740 - Correcting device for a timepiece: The invention concerns a corrector device for a timepiece for correcting a piece of information provided by an indicator mechanism (46), the timepiece comprising a case (1) delimiting a volume (8), the device being characterised in that it includes a control lever (14) located outside the volume (8) of the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259741 - Timepiece comprising an improved time-setting device: According to the invention, the time-setting device (18) of the timepiece includes a time-setting lever (62) which carries a coupling device (64) and the pivoting of which is controlled between an uncoupled position and a coupled position corresponding to the time-setting position of the winding stem (22). The coupling device... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080259742 - Methods and systems for controlling alarm clocks: Methods for controlling an alarm clock, employed in a mobile electronic device, are provided. An embodiment of a method for controlling an alarm clock comprises the mobile electronic device sounding when reaching a preset alarm time. The mobile electronic device stops sounding the alarm when detecting a first signal. It... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080253232 - Electronic device and electromagnetic wave timepiece: An electronic device includes: a timer which measures a current time; a display which displays information based on the time; a receiver which, by receiving and decoding a signal, including time information indicating a standard time, which is encoded by means of a predetermined communication system, acquires the time information;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080253233 - Orgasm clock: The Orgasm Clock is a clock that chimes every hour with a different female orgasm sound each hour and is intended for entertainment. The Orgasm Clock has a clock face with female figures on every hour in the place of numbers.... Agent: Patrick Michael Dinkfeld

20080253234 - Elapsed time device: An elapsed time and remaining time liquid crystal measuring device having a display face around the periphery of which there are a plurality of numerical indicia marks arranged in a generally clockwise pattern with successive numerical indicia marks decreasing in numerical value in a clockwise direction from a twelve o'clock... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080253235 - Timepiece display apparatus, movement, and timepiece: A timepiece display apparatus causes a day hand to move reciprocally by means of center wheel, driven day wheel, cam, lever, and rack. These wheels, cam, lever, and rack can be easily arranged to fit the available space on the main plate of the movement, and the construction of the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080253236 - Motor drive control circuit, semiconductor device, electronic timepiece, and electronic timepiece with a power generating device: A motor drive control circuit that operates using a primary power supply and controls driving a motor has a drive circuit that drives the motor, a power supply circuit that is disposed between the primary power supply and the drive circuit, and uses electrical energy supplied from the primary power... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080247276 - 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.

20080247277 - Correction device for timepiece display mechanism and wheel fitted thereto: The invention concerns a correction device (10) for a timepiece display mechanism of the type including a display member (12) fitted with a toothing (16) of pitch P, the correction device (10) including a pinion (26) provided with a toothing (30) of pitch p, mounted on a winding stem (24)... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080247278 - Programmable watch winder: An automatic watch winder that is user-programmable via USB (Universal Serial Bus) and/or wireless IrDA (Infrared), IEEE 802.11, or IEEE 802.15 connections to a computer, such as a laptop or notebook computer. The watch winder also includes a user programmable, high intensity LED illuminator used to charge the luminous material... Agent: Erickson & Kleypas, L.L.C.

20080239880 - Radio-wave timepieces and time information receivers: When lack of a part data on a time code included in a received standard radio wave is detected, the lack is filled up with a corresponding data part of another time code. The time of a radio-wave timepiece is corrected in accordance with the time code whose lack has... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080239879 - Time information receiver and radio controlled watch: A time information receiver and radio controlled watch that receives a time code in which different data pulses are disposed one in a unit period. A composite signal waveform of a plurality of detected signals of the time code shifted sequentially by a unit period of 1 second is obtained... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080239881 - Clock provided with function of raising alarm at more than one time and alarming method: In order to make it possible to set up an alarm method which is rich in variation, a mobile phone is configured so that a plurality of alarm times are related to the same group, the group to which a plurality of alarm times are related is set to activation... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239882 - Signaling timepiece: A novel timepiece that uses color and/or shape and/or symbols to provide a toddler, child or other individual who hasn't learned to tell time or the concept of time to determine if a specified time or time period has been reached. The timepiece can illuminate and/or display a color and/or... Agent: West & Associates, A PC

20080239883 - Timepiece: A timepiece having a mainspring, an output wheel that is rotated by torque output from the mainspring, a lever that pivots synchronously to the output wheel, and a pressure member that pushes the lever. The pressure member pushes the lever so that the output torque of the output wheel increases... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080239884 - Timepiece having openable and closable dial plate: A timepiece having an openable and closable dial plate, includes a stationary segment included in the dial plate, and a movable segment included in the dial plate and reciprocating between an open position and a closed position, the movable segment being positioned at the closed position by abutting with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC