Global Patent Index - EP 0644468 B1

EP 0644468 B1 19980121 - Analogical timepiece giving one or several alphanumerical informations according to a function mode or a programmed event

Title (en)

Analogical timepiece giving one or several alphanumerical informations according to a function mode or a programmed event

Title (de)

Analoguhr zum Anzeigen von einer oder mehreren alphanumerischen Informationen gemäss einer Funktionsart oder einem programmierten Ereignis

Title (fr)

Pièce d'horlogerie à affichage analogique pouvant fournir une ou plusieurs informations alphanumériques sur l'état d'un mode de fonctionnement ou d'un événement programmé

Publication

EP 0644468 B1 19980121 (FR)

Application

EP 94114128 A 19940908

Priority

CH 279093 A 19930916

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0644468A1] The invention relates to a timepiece with analogue display having at least one mode of operation, time-related or time-unrelated, and able to provide an information item relating to the state of this mode and/or to the state of a programmed event linked therewith. This timepiece includes: - at least two analogue display members constructed in the form of an hour hand (H) and a minute hand (MN), - electronic means of supervision (22) conformed in order to manage the mode of operation, and - means of displaying states capable of providing a user with at least one alphanumeric message informing him as to the state of the said mode and/or as to the state of the said event, this timepiece being characterised in that the means of displaying states consist of the hands (H,MN) themselves which, depending on their relative angular position determined on command by the electronic means of supervision (22), are able to act structurally on the said message in order to render it intelligible in the chosen angular position of the hands. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

G04C 3/14; G04B 45/00; G04B 19/04

IPC 8 full level

G04B 19/00 (2006.01); G04B 19/04 (2006.01); G04B 45/00 (2006.01); G04C 3/00 (2006.01); G04C 3/14 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G04B 19/04 (2013.01 - EP US); G04B 45/0007 (2013.01 - EP US); G04C 3/146 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0644468 A1 19950322; EP 0644468 B1 19980121; CH 685588 B5 19960229; CH 685588G A3 19950831; CN 1050677 C 20000322; CN 1102486 A 19950510; DE 69408062 D1 19980226; DE 69408062 T2 19981029; HK 1008443 A1 19990507; JP 3677062 B2 20050727; JP H07151870 A 19950616; US 5465239 A 19951107

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 94114128 A 19940908; CH 279093 A 19930916; CN 94115886 A 19940915; DE 69408062 T 19940908; HK 98109121 A 19980714; JP 22192594 A 19940916; US 30346094 A 19940909