Patents by Inventor Fabrice ROCHAT

Fabrice ROCHAT 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).

  • Publication number: 20230146626
    Abstract: A device (1) for displaying a succession of indications of a time variable for a timepiece, this display device (1) including an indicator which carries the succession of indications of the time variable to be displayed, and is arranged to be driven by a horological movement to move from an initial position to a final position through a succession of intermediate positions in which the display of the time variable passes from one indication to the next indication at a required frequency. Also included is a mechanism (22; 72) for positioning the indicator in a reference position and an actuating device, the mechanism including a cam on which acts, when actuated, the actuating device such that the mechanism brings the indicator back to its predetermined reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Fabrice ROCHAT, Polychronis Nakis KARAPATIS
  • Publication number: 20220342369
    Abstract: A horological mechanism including a barrel drum mounted pivotally free around a barrel shaft, a barrel spring being housed inside the barrel drum, this barrel spring including a first external coil wherein it is attached to the barrel drum, and a last internal coil, the barrel spring being attached to the barrel shaft, the winding of the barrel spring being done by a winding rod which meshes with the barrel drum, a barrel ratchet being fixedly mounted on the barrel shaft, the horological mechanism also including a finishing geartrain which includes a first finishing wheel with which the barrel ratchet meshes and which transmits a driving force from the barrel drum to an escapement mobile the purpose of which is to maintain the oscillations of a regulating member which, by its oscillations, regulates the rate of the horological mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventor: Fabrice ROCHAT
  • Patent number: 11467539
    Abstract: Timepiece display mobile component (1) comprising at least one resilient strip (4) returned to a display axis (DA), to cooperate in a friction drive with an arbor (2) of a drive mobile component (3) of a movement (100) or a mechanism, about the axis (DA), this mobile component (1) includes a flange (5) comprising, facing each resilient strip (4), an aperture (6) for the insertion and guidance of a manual or robotic tool to allow the tool to move the resilient strip (4) away from its rest position, and to insert the mobile component (1) on an arbor (2) when the resilient strip (4) is sufficiently far away to allow this mobile component to pass, and to ensure a constant friction value of all the resilient strips (4) on the arbor (2) when they are in frictional cooperation with the arbor (2) and when the tool is no longer in contact with the resilient strips (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Montres Breouet SA
    Inventors: Fabrice Rochat, Alain Zaugg
  • Patent number: 11287023
    Abstract: A correction mechanism for a function of a movement for a timepiece, notably a display function, including a corrector, and at least one clockwork part, notably a gear wheel, in which the clockwork part can be driven by a movement cooperating with a flexible transmission end of a movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Fabrice Rochat, Deirdre Lenoir
  • Patent number: 11089847
    Abstract: A device for attaching a bracelet or strap to a watch case includes a bar secured to the watch case by at least one horn and an insert integral with the end of the bracelet. The bar and the insert are complementary in order to cooperate by fitting one inside the other to form a removable assembly to make the bracelet interchangeable. The bar is formed by a cylindrical arbor having at least one flat portion. The flat portion cooperates by fitting with a housing made in the insert. The housing has a substantially rectangular opening for receiving the flat portion. The bar includes a control member for pivoting the bar from a first position A, in which the insert is positioned on the arbor, to a second position B, in which the insert is locked onto the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Patrice Golay, Fabrice Rochat
  • Patent number: 11022943
    Abstract: A device for attaching a bracelet or strap to a watch case includes a bar secured to the watch case by at least one horn and an insert integral with the end of the bracelet. The bar and the insert are complementary to cooperate by interlocking or fitting with each other to form a removable assembly to make the bracelet interchangeable. The bar is formed by a cylindrical shaft having a flat portion, the flat portion being arranged to cooperate by interlocking or fitting with at least one housing made in the insert, the housing having a substantially rectangular opening for receiving the flat portion. The shaft is telescopic to move from a first position, in which the insert is positionable on the shaft, to a second position, in which the insert is locked on the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Orane Romano, Fabrice Rochat, Alain Zaugg
  • Patent number: 11022944
    Abstract: A device for fixing a bracelet to a watch case includes at least one horn and a bracelet strand. The horn and the bracelet are held together by a bar. The horn includes a rigid blade arranged to fit together with at least one recess made in the bracelet strand. The at least one recess has an opening for receiving the blade during the placement of the bracelet strand so as to form a rigid link once the bar is put in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventor: Fabrice Rochat
  • Patent number: 10993512
    Abstract: A device for attaching a bracelet or strap to a watch case includes at least one horn integral with the watch case, and an insert integral with the end of a bracelet strand. The horn and the insert are complementary to cooperate by interlocking with each other to form a removable assembly able to make the bracelet interchangeable. The insert includes at least one stud subjected to the action of a spring, at least one stud being arranged to cooperate with at least one housing in the horn, the horn including a control member projecting radially with respect to the horn, in order to move the stud from a deployed position in which the stud holds the strand on the horn, to a retracted position in which the strand is released from the horn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventor: Fabrice Rochat
  • Publication number: 20200192295
    Abstract: Timepiece display mobile component (1) comprising at least one resilient strip (4) returned to a display axis (DA), to cooperate in a friction drive with an arbor (2) of a drive mobile component (3) of a movement (100) or a mechanism, about the axis (DA), this mobile component (1) includes a flange (5) comprising, facing each resilient strip (4), an aperture (6) for the insertion and guidance of a manual or robotic tool to allow the tool to move the resilient strip (4) away from its rest position, and to insert the mobile component (1) on an arbor (2) when the resilient strip (4) is sufficiently far away to allow this mobile component to pass, and to ensure a constant friction value of all the resilient strips (4) on the arbor (2) when they are in frictional cooperation with the arbor (2) and when the tool is no longer in contact with the resilient strips (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Montres Breguet SA
    Inventors: Fabrice ROCHAT, Alain ZAUGG
  • Publication number: 20200183334
    Abstract: A device for fixing a bracelet to a watch case includes at least one horn and a bracelet strand. The horn and the bracelet are held together by a bar. The horn includes a rigid blade arranged to fit together with at least one recess made in the bracelet strand. The at least one recess has an opening for receiving the blade during the placement of the bracelet strand so as to form a rigid link once the bar is put in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventor: Fabrice ROCHAT
  • Publication number: 20190162288
    Abstract: A correction mechanism for a function of a movement for a timepiece, notably a display function, including a corrector, and at least one clockwork part, notably a gear wheel, in which the clockwork part can be driven by a movement cooperating with a flexible transmission end of a movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Fabrice ROCHAT, Deirdre LENOIR
  • Publication number: 20190121295
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for attaching a bracelet or strap to a watch case, the device comprising, on the one hand, a bar secured to the watch case by means of at least one horn, and on the other hand, an insert integral with the end of the bracelet, wherein the bar and the insert are complementary to cooperate by interlocking or fitting with each other to form removable assembly means able to make the bracelet interchangeable. According to the invention, the bar is formed by a cylindrical shaft having a flat portion, the flat portion being arranged to cooperate by interlocking or fitting with at least one housing made in the insert, the housing having a substantially rectangular opening for receiving the flat portion, the shaft being telescopic to move from a first position A, in which the insert is positionable on the shaft, to a second position B, in which the insert is locked on the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Orane Romano, Fabrice Rochat, Alain Zaugg
  • Publication number: 20190116945
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for attaching a bracelet or strap to a watch case, the device comprising on the one hand, at least one horn integral with the watch case, and on the other hand, an insert integral with the end of a bracelet strand, wherein the horn and the insert are complementary to cooperate by interlocking with each other to form removable assembly means able to make the bracelet interchangeable. According to the invention, the insert includes at least one stud subjected to the action of elastic return means, said at least one stud being arranged to cooperate with at least one housing in the horn, the horn including a control member projecting radially with respect to the horn, in order to move the stud from a deployed position in which the stud holds the strand on the horn, to a retracted position in which the strand is released from the horn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventor: Fabrice ROCHAT
  • Publication number: 20190000195
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for attaching a bracelet or strap to a watch case, the device comprising, on the one hand, a bar secured to the watch case by means of at least one horn, and on the other hand, an insert integral with the end of the bracelet, wherein the bar and the insert are complementary in order to cooperate by fitting one inside the other to form removable assembly means able to make the bracelet interchangeable. According to the invention, the bar is formed by a cylindrical arbor having at least one flat portion, the flat portion cooperating by fitting with a housing made in the insert, the housing having a substantially rectangular opening for receiving the flat portion, and the bar including a control member for pivoting the bar from a first position A, in which the insert is positioned on the arbor, to a second position B, in which said insert is locked onto the bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Patrice GOLAY, Fabrice ROCHAT