Patents by Inventor Julien Peter
Julien Peter 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).
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Patent number: 11842713Abstract: The resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part is made from a copper alloy with more than 70% of copper in the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Laurane Chevallier, Julien Peter
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Patent number: 11774910Abstract: A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of palladium or platinum with more than 51% of palladium or platinum in the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Laurane Chevallier, Julien Peter
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Patent number: 11681259Abstract: A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of tungsten or tantalum or rhodium or hafnium with more than 51% of tungsten or tantalum or rhodium or hafnium in the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Laurane Chevallier, Julien Peter
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Patent number: 11435696Abstract: Timepiece with a movement driving an output wheel set, a passing strike or minute repeater mechanism, including a strike drive wheel set including a release ratchet with which cooperates a click for execution of a strike function, a strike uncoupling lever for moving any click away from the strike wheel set, including a first lever carrying the click and its spring, the output wheel set activating a second lever, the pivoting of which causes the first lever to pivot, the striking mechanism includes a torque smoothing jumper, which is returned by a first spring into abutment on the output wheel set, in order to use, when the second lever is not in mesh with the output wheel set, an equivalent torque to that which it uses when meshed with this output wheel set.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Julien Peter, Cedric Reymond
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Patent number: 11372370Abstract: Timepiece wheel set with a unidirectional wheel rotating in only one direction in cooperation with a ratchet wheel, which is movable inside a ratchet wheel chamber, comprising a click that rotates integrally with this wheel, which forms a one-piece component comprising at least one spring-arm, at the end of which, on a first side, a beak cooperates directly with the toothing of a ratchet wheel in an operating position in which this spring-arm is free, and on a second side, a first hook can cooperate with a second hook of complementary shape, comprised in this one-piece click, in a rest position in which this spring-arm is in an extended position, the elasticity thereof allowing this first hook to be hooked or unhooked with respect to this second hook by the action of an operator, by maximum elongation of this spring-arm and/or by the tilting of this end.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Blancpain SAInventor: Julien Peter
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Patent number: 11372373Abstract: Watch with a time setting mechanism with an uncouplable motion work lever, with a striking mechanism having a governor, including at least one control piece set in motion by a movement or on user command, and a governor mechanism arranged to regulate to a substantially constant value the rotational speed of a strike function actuator, this striking mechanism including, for at least one control piece, a governor trigger piece arranged, according to the angular position of this control piece, to operate a governor stop jumper able to block or allow the rotation of this governor mechanism, and, by means of an articulated connection, to isolate the motion work lever in an uncoupling position or place it in a coupling position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Mehdi Denden, Julien Peter
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Patent number: 11188031Abstract: A timepiece with a striking mechanism having a detent ratchet cooperating with a passing strike actuation click controlled by a movement or a repeater click operable by a user, including an uncoupling lever preventing access of the click to the ratchet under the action of a reversing lever operable by a hand-setting stem, or by a main strike function or tune selection control member, or by a stopping mechanism, and including a safety device for preventing release during a strike mode or tune selection, arranged to prevent the release of any strike function by the movement or by a user, and which includes a release-prevention lever, the pivoting of which, under action on the main control member, moves any click away from the detent ratchet.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Julien Peter, Mehdi Denden
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Patent number: 10890878Abstract: A striking mechanism for a watch including an hour snail driven by a movement, a strike wheel set including a detent ratchet and a repeating rack pinion, a pivoting hour-rack for reading the snail and driving the pinion, a click set in motion at each passing strike to drive the detent ratchet, with a mode selector mechanism for selection by the user of a particular strike mode, among distinct modes including a silent mode, defining the angular position of a cam having an external profiled surface, wherein, in silent mode, the largest radius pushes back a beak of a silencing lever, to orient it into a position where its main arm moves the click away from the ratchet in order to disable every passing strike function.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Mehdi Denden, Julien Peter
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Patent number: 10761485Abstract: Striking mechanism for a watch including: an hour snail driven by a movement, a strike wheel set including a detent ratchet and a repeating rack pinion, a pivoting hour-rack for reading this snail and driving this pinion, a click set in motion at each passing strike to drive this detent ratchet, with a mode selector mechanism for selection by the user of a particular strike mode, among distinct modes including a silent mode, defining the angular position of a cam having an external profile, wherein, in silent mode, the largest radius pushes back a beak of a silencing lever, to orient it into a position where its main arm moves this click away from this ratchet in order to disable every passing strike.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Mehdi Denden, Julien Peter
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Patent number: 10732570Abstract: Stopping mechanism for a striking mechanism comprising energy storage means including a power reserve transmission wheel set, a strike wheel set comprising a detent ratchet, a main click for the passing strike function and/or a repeater release click, the stopping mechanism includes an uncoupling lever for moving the clicks away from the strike wheel set, by an instantaneous jump of a lever changing the position of the uncoupling lever, when the level of energy of the storage means crosses a predefined threshold, through the cooperation between a finger, driven by the power reserve transmission wheel set, and a jumper returned by a first spring, to bring the finger to bear on a fork of the lever to cause it to pivot abruptly by instantaneously changing the position of a lug with respect to a second spring.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Julien Peter, Edmond Capt
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Publication number: 20200168199Abstract: The resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part is made from a copper alloy with more than 70% of copper in the alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Laurane CHEVALLIER, Julien PETER
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Publication number: 20200166893Abstract: A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of tungsten or tantalum or rhodium or hafnium with more than 51% of tungsten or tantalum or rhodium or hafnium in the alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Laurane CHEVALLIER, Julien PETER
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Publication number: 20200166892Abstract: A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of palladium or platinum with more than 51% of palladium or platinum in the alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Laurane CHEVALLIER, Julien PETER
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Patent number: 10514660Abstract: Timepiece movement with a carillon striking mechanism, striking the hours and quarter-hours with different melodies, the striking mechanism including a quarter surprise-piece coaxial to and superposed on the quarter-snail, in a limited angular travel with respect to the quarter-snail, arranged to ensure the sequential playing of the melodies of the four quarter-hours on the full hour, in the first minute of the new hour, and further including, in the plane of the quarter surprise-piece, a quarter surprise-piece jumper, arranged to drive and/or to lock this quarter surprise-piece.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Blancpain SAInventors: Julien Behra, Mehdi Denden, Julien Peter
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Publication number: 20190361401Abstract: A timepiece with a striking mechanism having a detent ratchet cooperating with a passing strike actuation click controlled by a movement or a repeater click operable by a user, including an uncoupling lever preventing access of the click to the ratchet under the action of a reversing lever operable by a hand-setting stem, or by a main strike function or tune selection control member, or by a stopping mechanism, and including a safety device for preventing release during a strike mode or tune selection, arranged to prevent the release of any strike function by the movement or by a user, and which includes a release-prevention lever, the pivoting of which, under action on the main control member, moves any click away from the detent ratchet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Julien PETER, Mehdi DENDEN
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Publication number: 20190187617Abstract: Timepiece with a movement driving an output wheel set, a passing strike or minute repeater mechanism, including a strike drive wheel set including a release ratchet with which cooperates a click for execution of a strike function, a strike uncoupling lever for moving any click away from the strike wheel set, including a first lever carrying the click and its spring, the output wheel set activating a second lever, the pivoting of which causes the first lever to pivot, the striking mechanism includes a torque smoothing jumper, which is returned by a first spring into abutment on the output wheel set, in order to use, when the second lever is not in mesh with the output wheel set, an equivalent torque to that which it uses when meshed with this output wheel set.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Julien PETER, Cedric Reymond
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Publication number: 20190163134Abstract: Timepiece wheel set with a unidirectional wheel rotating in only one direction in cooperation with a ratchet wheel, which is movable inside a ratchet wheel chamber, comprising a click that rotates integrally with this wheel, which forms a one-piece component comprising at least one spring-arm, at the end of which, on a first side, a beak cooperates directly with the toothing of a ratchet wheel in an operating position in which this spring-arm is free, and on a second side, a first hook can cooperate with a second hook of complementary shape, comprised in this one-piece click, in a rest position in which this spring-arm is in an extended position, the elasticity thereof allowing this first hook to be hooked or unhooked with respect to this second hook by the action of an operator, by maximum elongation of this spring-arm and/or by the tilting of this end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: Blancpain SAInventor: Julien PETER
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Publication number: 20190155220Abstract: Watch with a time setting mechanism with an uncouplable motion work lever, with a striking mechanism having a governor, including at least one control piece set in motion by a movement or on user command, and a governor mechanism arranged to regulate to a substantially constant value the rotational speed of a strike function actuator, this striking mechanism including, for at least one control piece, a governor trigger piece arranged, according to the angular position of this control piece, to operate a governor stop jumper able to block or allow the rotation of this governor mechanism, and, by means of an articulated connection, to isolate the motion work lever in an uncoupling position or place it in a coupling position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Mehdi DENDEN, Julien Peter
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Publication number: 20190033788Abstract: Striking mechanism for a watch including: an hour snail driven by a movement, a strike wheel set including a detent ratchet and a repeating rack pinion, a pivoting hour-rack for reading this snail and driving this pinion, a click set in motion at each passing strike to drive this detent ratchet, with a mode selector mechanism for selection by the user of a particular strike mode, among distinct modes including a silent mode, defining the angular position of a cam having an external profile, wherein, in silent mode, the largest radius pushes back a beak of a silencing lever, to orient it into a position where its main arm moves this click away from this ratchet in order to disable every passing strike.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Mehdi Denden, Julien Peter
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Publication number: 20190033789Abstract: Striking mechanism for a watch including: an hour snail driven by a movement, a strike wheel set including a detent ratchet and a repeating rack pinion, a pivoting hour-rack for reading the snail and driving the pinion, a click set in motion at each passing strike to drive the detent ratchet, with a mode selector mechanism for selection by the user of a particular strike mode, among distinct modes including a silent mode, defining the angular position of a cam having an external profiled surface, wherein, in silent mode, the largest radius pushes back a beak of a silencing lever, to orient it into a position where its main arm moves the click away from the ratchet in order to disable every passing strike function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Blancpain SAInventors: Mehdi DENDEN, Julien PETER