Patents Assigned to Chopard Technologies SA
  • Publication number: 20230263278
    Abstract: The invention relates to an article of jewelry comprising a transparent wall which forms a housing provided to receive a precious or semi-precious stone which is immersed and movable in a substantially transparent liquid in the housing and at least one piece which is movable in the liquid and which has the same refractive index as the liquid, the piece immersed in the liquid being substantially optically indiscernible. The housing is delimited by two walls the internal faces of which are preferably mutually parallel, and the stone is inserted into the piece in order to form a movable decorative element, the piece immersed in the liquid being substantially optically indiscernible and comprising an axis of revolution and two guiding surfaces which are adjacent to the internal faces, respectively, and which allow the movable decorative element to move freely in terms of translation and rotation in the liquid about the axis of revolution inside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: CHOPARD TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Francisco DIAS, Sergio DOS SANTOS
  • Patent number: 10362844
    Abstract: A movable decorative element, intended to be freely rotated and translated between two walls (5, 6) whose inner faces are parallel to each other, at least one of which is transparent, includes a precious or semi-precious stone (2) mounted in a socket (1). The socket (1) includes a closed bottom (4) whose outer face is bulged to promote the rotation of the decorative element when this bulged outer face (7) is applied against the inner face of one of said walls, and an open outer (7) opposite to the bottom (4) which is flush with or which protrudes relative to the stone (2) to form a bearing surface against the other of said walls (5, 6) when the decorative element is disposed between the two walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CHOPARD TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Guy Bove, Richard Hiltbrunner
  • Patent number: 8662741
    Abstract: The horological movement comprises a regulating device having an oscillation frequency (f) and an escapement for maintaining the oscillations of the regulating device. The escapement comprises an escape wheel having (N) teeth. The frequency (f) is at least equal to about 5 Hz, and the ratio between the number (N) of teeth and the frequency (f) is substantially equal to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Chopard Technologies SA
    Inventors: Christophe Gigandet, Francisco Dias, Armin Behrend
  • Patent number: 8628234
    Abstract: The horological movement comprises a regulating device having an oscillation frequency (f) and an escapement for maintaining the oscillations of the regulating device. The escapement comprises an escape wheel having (N) teeth. The frequency (f) is at least equal to about 5 Hz, and the ratio between the number (N) of teeth and the frequency (f) is substantially equal to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Chopard Technologies SA
    Inventors: Christophe Gigandet, Francisco Dias, Armin Behrend
  • Patent number: 8342739
    Abstract: The horological movement comprises a regulating device having an oscillation frequency f and an escapement (11, 12) for maintaining the oscillations of the regulating device. The escapement comprises an escape wheel (11) having N teeth. The frequency f is at least equal to about 5 Hz, and the ratio between the number N of teeth and the frequency f is substantially equal to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Chopard Technologies SA
    Inventors: Christophe Gigandet, Francisco Dias, Armin Behrend
  • Publication number: 20120124797
    Abstract: The horological movement comprises a regulating device having an oscillation frequency (f) and an escapement for maintaining the oscillations of the regulating device. The escapement comprises an escape wheel having (N) teeth. The frequency (f) is at least equal to about 5 Hz, and the ratio between the number (N) of teeth and the frequency (f) is substantially equal to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CHOPARD TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Christophe GIGANDET, Francisco DIAS, Armin BEHREND
  • Publication number: 20120127836
    Abstract: The horological movement comprises a regulating device having an oscillation frequency (f) and an escapement for maintaining the oscillations of the regulating device. The escapement comprises an escape wheel having (N) teeth. The frequency (f) is at least equal to about 5 Hz, and the ratio between the number (N) of teeth and the frequency (f) is substantially equal to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CHOPARD TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Christophe GIGANDET, Francisco DIAS, Armin BEHREND
  • Patent number: 8118480
    Abstract: The driving and transmitting element (10, 50) is in the form of a ring (20) having an outer face (32) from which a stud (40) extends radially. Application to a roller table (60, 70) of a lever escapement (80) for a timepiece (90) including such a driving and transmitting element (10, 50) for rotating the anchor (84) and for transmitting an impulse from the anchor (84) to the roller table (60, 70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Chopard Technologies SA
    Inventors: Christophe Gigandet, Francisco Dias, Armin Behrend
  • Publication number: 20110005056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for assembly of a hard part (12) made in a material the hardness of which is higher than 500 Vickers on a fixed support (10) consisting in being: equipped of a plate (18) in malleable material arranged to be tightly positioned on the support; equipped of a hard part (12) further including a geometrical shut-off element positioned so as to be able to cooperate with the plate; and equipped of a clamping element for sandwiching between the latter and the support, the plate and the hard part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: CHOPARD TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Christophe GIGANDET, Armin BEHREND, Francisco DIAS
  • Publication number: 20110005055
    Abstract: A method for assembling a hard part made of a material the hardness of which is higher than 500 Vickers, a pivot organ, includes: having a pivot organ including a tubular portion and a bearing surface extending around the tubular portion; introducing the hard part freely on the pivot organ around the tubular portion, the hard part having at least one structure built in advance, defining an entry and pulling the hard part in contact with a malleable organ also set on the pivot organ around the tubular portion, so that it is positioned over the entry of the structure, this assembly being formed by the hard part and the malleable organ being brought to bear the support surface; deform irreversibly the malleable organ to create catches formed by the washer and housed inside the structure without any degree of freedom, the malleable organ made integral with the pivot organ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: CHOPARD TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Christophe GIGANDET, Armin BEHREND, Francisco DIAS
  • Patent number: D663646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Chopard Technologies SA
    Inventors: Christophe Gigandet, Armin Behrend, Francisco Dias