Patents Assigned to Eta Sa Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
  • Publication number: 20240081493
    Abstract: A removable bracelet that can be connected to the body of a portable object, the bracelet being provided with a flexible body and including at least one end for fastening the bracelet to this body of the portable object, the fastening end including an attachment area provided with two rigid fastening parts and a deformable part configured to contribute to reversibly fastening the bracelet to the body of the portable object, the deformable part being arranged between the two rigid fastening parts of the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Dohan SCHLICHTIG, Marc SCHENK
  • Patent number: 11921466
    Abstract: A method for updating (500) the date for a watch implemented by an updating device (100). The updating method (500) including storing in memory the current date (171) according to a perpetual calendar programmed on a time zone (175), receiving a second signal (181) before verifying a first signal (131) after having received the second signal (181). A comparison is carried out between the second signal (181) and the current date (171) in order to control the driving of at least one date-disc (120) with a drive member (160) if the second portion (127) is different from the current date (171) until the first sensor (130) detects a first portion (126) of the at least one date-disc (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE
    Inventor: Pascal Lagorgette
  • Publication number: 20240069493
    Abstract: A balance spring (1) of a sprung balance assembly of a mechanical horological movement, formed by a succession of coils (S1, . . . , Sn) which extend between a first free end, referred to as inner first coil (2), and a second free end, referred to as outer last coil (6). The are arranged off-centre when the balance spring is in the free state, the outer last coil (6) terminating in a stop means for the attachment thereof to a stud (14). The balance spring (1) is centred and its spires concentric when the spring (1) is in the mounted state inside the sprung balance assembly, the coils being rearranged concentrically when the spring is in the mounted state. The attachment of the spring to the stud inducing, in the coils, a resilient stress as a result whereof the stop is attached in a captive manner to the stud (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Julien CHRISTAN, Raphael COURVOISIER
  • Patent number: 11914327
    Abstract: A timepiece indexing element (10), coaxially cooperating with a component (20) including an indexing relief (30), including indexing parts (13) cooperating with this indexing relief (30) for their relative indexing in a plurality of indexing positions, and carried by first elastic arms (14) each including a first indexing surface (15), each first elastic arm (14) being arranged to exert a pushing force that is substantially radial relative to this component (20), and this indexing element (10) includes at least a first bearing surface (11) arranged, in the free state in a service position, to remain at a distance from a second complementary bearing surface (21) that a component (20) includes, and in the event of impact, to cooperate in abutment and/or guide bearing with the second complementary bearing surface (21), each first bearing surface (11) being carried by a second elastic bearing arm (40) cantilevered in the indexing element (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE
    Inventor: Julien Saglini
  • Patent number: 11903459
    Abstract: A wearable object including a middle of a case, a bracelet, and a fastening system for removably securing the bracelet to the middle, the middle including two longitudinal cavities configured to form a slide-bar and receive a hooking head of the bracelet of complementary shape and configured to cooperate by sliding. The fastening system includes elastic casing elements to bolt the axial movement of the hooking head inside the longitudinal cavity, the elastic casing elements including: a rigid bolting protrusion, arranged on an inner wall of each of the longitudinal cavities, cooperating with; two obstacles arranged in the vicinity of an elastic portion of the hooking heads, the obstacles delimiting an inter-obstacle space designed to receive the bolting protrusion and form locking elements of the bolting protrusion; the elastic casing elements being configured to elastically distort the elastic portion of the hooking head during the insertion of the bracelet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Dohan Schlichtig, Roger Willemin
  • Patent number: 11906935
    Abstract: A removable case back of an electronic or electromechanical watch case, the case back allows the wireless charging or recharging of a power source. The case back includes a first multi-function sub-assembly having a buzzer, an inductive coil on or integrated in a printed circuit board, the inductive coil being covered by a magnetic shield on an inner side of the watch case, and a second multi-function sub-assembly on the first multi-function sub-assembly having an enclosure structure for accommodating the power source, such as a battery or an accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Marc Schenk, Laurent Mouche
  • Patent number: 11906938
    Abstract: A method for permutation of a time display mode of an electronic watch with an analogue display, including, after manipulation of a control member of the watch, a permutation of the position of main time indicating means of the watch, such that the device changes from indicating a first time to indicating a second time, the position of secondary time indicating device of the watch, such that the device changes from indicating the second time to indicating the first time, the position of an analogue time display mode indicator of the watch, such that the indicator changes from a first position characteristic of the first mode to a second position characteristic of the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Francois Klopfenstein
  • Patent number: 11899403
    Abstract: A method (P1) for coding a solar time, called the initial solar time (Hs1), associated with a geographical location (Loc) and with a day (J1) of the year, wherein the method includes selecting SEL(Href, Nb1) a reference time (Href) and an initial number of bits (Nb1) as a function of the type of initial solar time (Hs), computing CALC(Nm1) a number of minutes (Nm1) separating the initial solar time (Hs1) and the reference time (Href), coding COD(Hs1) the number of minutes (Nm1) in the initial number of bits (Nb1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Thierry Bonnet, Jiri Husak
  • Patent number: 11899404
    Abstract: A device for assembly and alignment on a first bridge, particularly a timepiece movement plate, arranged in a first plane, the device including a second bridge arranged in a second plane, the second bridge being intended to carry a component, in particular a moving component of a timepiece resonator mechanism, the device including a device for aligning the second bridge on the first bridge, the alignment device including at least two bearing faces of the second bridge arranged orthogonally to the second plane in two different directions, the alignment device further including at least two movable adjustment pieces connected to the first bridge, the adjustment pieces each being configured to contact with one of the bearing faces to position the second bridge in a position on the first bridge, the movable pieces defining a plurality of positions of the second bridge on the first bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Pascal Winkler, Jean-Luc Helfer, Raphaël Courvoisier
  • Publication number: 20240043714
    Abstract: An article including a substrate and a corrosion inhibiting coating present on at least part of a surface of the substrate, wherein the corrosion inhibiting coating is a cross-linked inorganic organic hybrid coating comprising at least one functional group R1, wherein R1 comprises one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of C1-C20 alkyl, C1-C20 cycloalkyl, C1-C10 aryl, amide, amine, mercapto, and epoxy, and substituted with at least one halogen atom, wherein the coating comprises silicon and/or titanium, and is covalently bonded to the metallic element or the alloy thereof by oxygen-silicon bonds or oxygen-titanium bonds, respectively. Also, a method for producing such an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventor: Raheleh PARTOVI NIA
  • Patent number: 11886151
    Abstract: A rotary wheel set system of a horological movement with a rotary wheel set, a first and a second bearing, for a first and a second pivot of the arbor of the rotary wheel set, the wheel set including a mass center in a position of its arbor, the first bearing including an endstone including a main body equipped with a pyramidal cavity configured to receive the first pivot of the arbor of the rotary wheel set, the cavity having at least three faces giving its pyramidal shape, the first pivot being capable of cooperating with the cavity of the endstone to rotate in the cavity, at least one contact zone between the first pivot and a face being generated, the normal at the contact zone or zones forming a contact angle (?h) relating to the plane perpendicular to the arbor of the pivot, wherein the contact angle (?h) is less than 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Helfer, Dominique Lechot
  • Patent number: 11880170
    Abstract: A watch with annual calendar setting, the watch including at least one setting member configured to displace an hour hand and/or a minute hand, at least one detecting member configured to detect the date change, and at least one central processing unit configured to deduce the set date, to actuate the motor and to implement the annual calendar setting method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventor: Pascal Lagorgette
  • Patent number: 11874633
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the operating frequency of an electronic watch via a computer application installed in a portable electronic device, the adjustment method including the following steps, performed by the computer application: generating a pulsed reference signal in the portable electronic device, converting the pulsed reference signal into a modulated optical signal consisting of light pulses, transmitting the modulated optical signal to the electronic watch via the light source or via a modulation of the light emitted by the screen of the portable electronic device, and the following steps, performed by the electronic watch: reconstituting the pulsed reference signal from the modulated optical signal received by the optical sensor, correcting an inhibition value stored in the memory of an adjustment circuit of the electronic watch as a function of the pulsed reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventor: Francois Klopfenstein
  • Patent number: 11868093
    Abstract: A method that is for manufacturing a timepiece provided with a personalized decoration, visible in particular when the timepiece is worn, includes constructing the timepiece and producing the personalized decoration on all or part of a body of the timepiece. Producing the personalized decoration includes selecting from a human-machine interface of an electronic device a single portion of a reference digital graphical representation, in particular of an ephemeral reference digital graphic representation, and applying a coating of decorative material on all or part of the body of the timepiece as a function of the descriptive characteristics of the selected single portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Stefan Stark
  • Patent number: 11860578
    Abstract: An indicator anti-correction system for a timepiece, the system including a correction mechanism of the indicator and a correction gear configured to mesh with the indicator, the correction mechanism being configured to be connected to a manual correction actuation system and to mesh with the correction gear in a first correction position, the correction mechanism being movably mounted between the first correction position and a second non-correction position, wherein the system further includes a component mounted movable in rotation about an axis, the component having a first end configured to cooperate with at least one protuberance provided on the date indicator or the hour wheel, the component having a second end configured to cooperate with the correction mechanism so as to block the mechanism in an anti-correction position when the first end of the component cooperates with the at least one protuberance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventor: Stéphane Bachmann
  • Publication number: 20230416473
    Abstract: An article made from a material having a density between 2 and 7 g/cm3, the material comprising by weight for a total of 100%: a filler (2) made from a metal and/or ceramic material; at least one polymer (4); optionally at least one coupling agent (3) present in a percentage greater than or equal to 0% and less than 10%; optionally at least one reinforcement present in a percentage between 0 and 10%; optionally at least one pigment present in a percentage between 0 and 5%; optionally at least one diluent and/or a plasticiser present in a percentage between 0 and 5%. The polymer (4) is bonded to the filler (2) and the coupling agent (3) is respectively bonded to the polymer (4) and to the filler (2) by one or more bonds chosen from a hydrogen bond, a coordinate bond and an ionic bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE
    Inventors: Julien DAHAN, Benoît SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20230418235
    Abstract: A combined device applies an axial force to a timepiece component, and simultaneously measures the axial distance between a reference and a surface of the component. The device includes a support carrying a measuring body which includes a measuring unit for carrying out an axial measurement of the position of this surface, and a controller operated by a user or by an automated manipulator, for applying to this surface, a characterised axial force transmitted to the bearing and measuring point by a calibrated axial resilient return device. The device is used by having a stack of flat, specific resilient elements, which are characterised by the combined force characteristic thereof as a function of the applied axial stroke, impart to the controller the rotational or axial stroke which corresponds to the specific axial force to be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Fabrice GANGUIN, Erich WELZ
  • Patent number: 11853012
    Abstract: A winding machine includes motorization means arranged to move a support, carrying at least one watch or one horological movement, along a path in a plane. The motorization means are arranged to move each support parallel to a starting position corresponding to the loading or unloading of a watch or of a movement on the support, the axes of a three-dimensional frame of reference specific to the support always remaining parallel to the oriented directions that the axes occupy in the starting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Helfer, Cédric Decosterd, Nicolas Loetscher, Philipp Schneider
  • Publication number: 20230408979
    Abstract: A balance-spring stud holder includes a clamping part defining three contact zones intended to press against a lateral wall of a projecting part of the balance bridge, a first contact zone being connected to a second contact zone by a first part and to the third contact zone by a second part of the clamping part. The first part has a first stiffness at a second median point of the second contact zone, relative to a first median point of the first contact zone, which is greater than three times a second stiffness that the second part has at a third median point of the third contact zone relative to the first median point of the first contact zone. The first stiffness can be seven times greater than the second stiffness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Olivier MERTENAT, Jean-Luc HELFER
  • Publication number: 20230408981
    Abstract: A gripper (100) with radial clamping, provided for a timepiece component, including a plurality of jaws (1) distributed about an axis (D), which defines a direction of insertion and/or of extraction for the timepiece component, and connected to a support (2) of the gripper, each jaw including a bearing surface (10) arranged to ensure a radial contact, relative to the axis, with a counter surface of the component and to be able to apply on this counter surface a radial clamping force, at least one the jaw being radially movable, in relation to the axis, and having an essentially radial travel in relation to the axis (D). Each mobile jaw is connected to the support by a radial elastic return means (3) that extends in a general plane (P) perpendicular to the axis and that is preferably arranged between the mobile jaw and the axis (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE
    Inventor: Basile GIGON