Patents by Inventor Aurele Maire

Aurele Maire has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4422776
    Abstract: The correction device of the invention makes it possible to activate, in the same axial position of the crown, two different modes of correction of the data displayed by the watch, it being possible to make those corrections in both directions, depending on the direction of rotation of the crown.The second correction mode is activated only after a reversal of direction of the correction made according to the first mode.This device contains, notably, memory means 11, 12, associated with each direction of rotation of the crown, and selection means 21, 31, 22, 32, for choosing the mode and the direction of correction activated in accordance with the direction of rotation of the crown, on the one hand, and a possible reversal of that direction, on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.
    Inventors: Aurele Maire, Norbert Perucchi
  • Patent number: 4398832
    Abstract: The timepiece comprises a first motor (8) driving the seconds hand (s) independently from the other hands indicating the minutes and the hours which are driven by a second motor (4). A logic circuit (5) is capable of controlling the first motor (8) in response to the actuation of control elements (C,S1, S2) external to the electronic circuit of the timepiece or by means (6) internal to this electronic circuit and in response to time base signals delivered by a frequency divider (2) so that the seconds hand indicates informations which are different from the ones for the display of which it is normally provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Compagnie des Montres Longines Francillon SA
    Inventors: Aurele Maire, Jean-Georges Michel, Jean-Claude Robert-Grandpierre