Abstract: A ground terminal 10, 10A is plate-like and provided with a base portion 11 to be fixed to a body 80, a wire connecting portion 12 arranged to be placed on a plate surface of the base portion 11, and a folded portion 13 shaped by being folded in a direction intersecting an extending direction of a wire 90 from the wire connecting portion 12 and connecting the base portion 11 and the wire connecting portion 12. Either one of the base portion 11 and the wire connecting portion 12 includes a protrusion 25, 25A projecting toward the other. The other includes a contact portion 32 facing the protrusion 25, 25A to be able to butt against the protrusion 25, 25A in the extending direction.

Abstract: Time is appropriately corrected without needlessly consuming power. In step S101 and step S102, a CPU of an electronic timepiece determines whether to correct a time measured by a timekeeping circuit. Then, when a determination is made to correct the time measured by the timekeeping circuit, in step S111 and step S112, the time measured by the timekeeping circuit is corrected on the basis of time information held by a wireless device.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes an obtaining circuit, a first processor and a second processor. The obtaining circuit obtains information on current time from outside. The first processor measures time. The second processor is connected to the obtaining circuit. The first processor obtains a synchronization signal corresponding to the current time, obtains the current time, which the second processor obtains from the obtaining circuit, and based on the current time and the synchronization signal, corrects the measuring time, which the first processor is measuring.

Abstract: A connector structure that includes a housing, at least one pin located within the housing, and a moveable protection plate located within the housing, and moveably connected to the housing. The moveable protection plate includes at least one opening through which the at least one pin extends therethrough. The moveable protection plate is configured to protect the at least one pin before the connector structure is connected with a receptacle, and the moveable protection plate is configured to be moved within the housing to allow the at least one pin to be exposed when the connector structure is mated with the receptacle.

Abstract: A diaphragm type deployment device including a first rigid armature and a second deformable armature, the first rigid armature and the second deformable armature being connected to one another, such that the second deformable armature switches from a first extended configuration to a second compact configuration, and vice versa, the device defining a first geometry when the second deformable armature is in the first extended configuration, and defining a second smaller geometry than the first geometry, when the second deformable armature is in the second compact configuration, the device extending substantially in the same plane when the second armature is in the first or in the second configuration, wherein at least a first part of the first rigid armature and at least a first part of the second deformable armature form a first one-piece assembly, preferably from the same material.

Abstract: A case including a first case which has a retaining portion provided on an outer circumference thereof, an exterior member which has an engaging portion with which the retaining portion engaged, and covers the outer circumference of the first case, a second case which is arranged on upper parts of the first case and the exterior member, and a fastening member which attaches the second case to the first case by fastening the second case to the exterior member.

Abstract: A watch (50) including an electromechanical movement provided with a stepper motor (2) and a control circuit (20) of the motor, and configured to communicate with an external communication device (100), including an antenna formed by the coil (18) of the motor and arranged to receive an amplitude-modulated magnetic signal according to the encoded data. The communication involves the generation of electrical detection pulses supplied to the coil of the motor with a pulse frequency corresponding to an encoding frequency of the magnetic signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods for an electronic timepiece are described. The electronic timepiece can include a first processor that controls a clocking operation and a second processor that has an arithmetic processing capacity higher than an arithmetic processing capacity of the first processor. The electronic timepiece can further include an information acquisition circuit that is controlled by the second processor.

Abstract: A method for optimising an operation of setting and winding a watch or the timepiece movement thereof including initially making a measurement of the operation of the watch or of the timepiece movement followed by an activation of an operation of low-amplitude reciprocating movements of the watch or of the timepiece movement on the jig of the device, or initially implementing an activation of an operation of low-amplitude reciprocating movements of the watch or of the timepiece movement before making a measurement of the operation of the watch or of the timepiece movement, and resuming low-amplitude reciprocating movements in phase or a synchronisation step being implemented at the end of the first two steps. The first oscillating signal of movements includes a change in sign of the absolute rotation speed in each successive oscillation period, the oscillating signal having a positive part and a negative part of the rotation speed.

Abstract: A connector connecting a line to a printed circuit board. The connector has a section of the line that has a first end, has a connection element that is joined to the end of the section of the line by a first end and is joined to a printed circuit board by a second end, has an insert part that receives the first end of the connection element and the end of the section of the line, the insert part has a recess through which the connection element projects or in which the first end of the connection element and the end of the section of the line are arranged, and has a cured casting compound that fills the recess so as to enclose the connection element or so as to enclose the first end of the connection element and the end joined thereto of the section of the line.

Abstract: The rotating bezel (10) for a timepiece case includes: a first axis (A10), and a single frustoconical surface (1a) centered on the first axis and to be acted on by at least one press element (51) at an interface (110) between the bezel (10) and the middle (3) of the timepiece case.

Abstract: A zeroing device 100 for a chronograph, having at least one zeroing heart 110, 120, a zeroing unit 200, which has a zeroing lever arm 210 and a zeroing lever bar 220, a first end 221 of which contacts the zeroing heart 110, 120, and a control means 130 which interacts with the zeroing lever arm 210. A zeroing of the zeroing unit 200 is effectuated by actuating the control means 130. This enables low production and maintenance costs and allows the counter hands to be reset to the zero position in a safer, more durable, and user-friendly manner. The zeroing device 100 includes a first compression spring 140 which is supported on the zeroing lever arm 210 and is) operatively connected to the control means 130. The control means 130 interacts indirectly, via the first compression spring 140, with the zeroing unit 200.

Abstract: A visual timer includes a back shell, a PCB board, an encoder, a color display screen, an adjusting knob, a knob sleeve and a lens. The PCB board is arranged on the front of the back shell, the encoder is arranged at the bottom of the front of the PCB board, the color display screen is arranged on the front of the PCB board, the adjusting knob is arranged on the front of the encoder, the knob sleeve is arranged on the front of the adjusting knob, and the lens is arranged on the front of the color display screen. The timer has the characteristics of time visualization, low efficacy and convenient time adjustment by the adjusting knob, and the maximum timing range can be switched to 120 minutes and 60 minutes.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including an antenna and a device case. The antenna has a top plate and a side wall. The top plate is annular in a plan view from a first direction and has at least an outer peripheral edge and an inner peripheral edge. The side wall is connected to at least a part of the top plate and extending along the first direction. The device case includes a dielectric and accommodating at least the side wall of the antenna.

Abstract: A wearable electronic apparatus includes a body and a band. The body includes a shaft hole, and the band includes a connection part, two spring bar pins, two first springs, a button, two second springs, and a cover. The connection part includes an accommodation cavity, and the accommodation cavity includes two first openings and one second opening. Each spring bar pin is slidably disposed in the accommodation cavity at the first opening. Each spring bar pin includes a matching end and a mounting end that are opposite to each other. The matching end is configured to cooperate with the button, and the mounting end is configured to be accommodated in the shaft hole.

Abstract: An elastic fastening element for holding a timepiece component on a support element, including an opening the contour of which includes at least four contact areas for receiving and clamping the support element in the opening, the contact areas each being included on an inner face of a deformable portion provided with a through-hole of the fastening element.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a generally planar metallic substrate having a surface with an electrically nonconductive coating and an electrical connector having a contact tab extending therefrom that is in mechanical and electrical contact with the metallic substrate. The contact tab defines two sharp points that are formed by two triangular portions of the contact tab that pierce the electrically nonconductive coating. An electrical shield incorporating the contact tab and a method of forming the electrical shield are also provided herein.

Abstract: An escapement device for a mechanical timepiece having an escapement wheel cooperating with a rocker and a mobile element, the rocker cooperates with the escapement wheel by blocking arms and with the balance plate by a release fork, the mobile element having a spring cooperating with the teeth of the escapement wheel by a winding arm and with the balance wheel plate by an impulse arm. This space-saving escapement device is able to supply the balance wheel with an almost constant quantity of energy within a variable barrel torque range.

Abstract: An electronic device, a method and a computer program product for managing alarms. The method includes detecting, via a processor of an electronic device configured with alarm functionality, activation of a first alarm. The first alarm set to trigger at a first time. The method includes monitoring for receipt of incoming communications that are not attended to by a user of the electronic device and identifying that an incoming communication contains information that warrants performing an alarm modification corresponding to the first alarm. In response to identifying that the incoming communication contains the information that warrants performing an alarm modification, the method includes determining a time adjustment period based on the at least one information message. The method includes adjusting the first time, by the time adjustment period, to generate a second time and updating the first alarm to be triggered at the second time.

Abstract: An assembly (1) for attaching a free end (8) of an outer last coil (10) of a balance spring (12) for a horological movement, this attachment assembly (1) including a stud (2) and a blocking element (14), the stud (2) being provided with a groove (6) in which the free end (8) of the outer last coil (10) of the balance spring (12) is engaged, the blocking element (14) also being engaged in the groove (6), in contact with the outer last coil (10) of the balance spring (12), the attachment assembly (1) further including a clamping member (16) which presses the blocking element (14) against the free end (8) of the outer last coil (10) of the balance spring (12), such that the free end (8) of the outer last coil (10) of the balance spring (12) is immobilised in the groove (6) of the stud (2).