Patents Examined by Michael James Walker
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Patent number: 12613498Abstract: An electronic device including a first contact member, a second contact member which is arranged opposing the first contact member, a resilient conductive member which electrically connects the first contact member with the second contact member, and a resilient guide holding member having a guide portion which guides the resilient conductive member in opposing directions of the first contact member and the second contact member, and a resilient holding portion which holds the guide portion such that the guide portion is resiliently movable in the opposing directions of the first contact member and the second contact member.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroki Igi
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Patent number: 12607969Abstract: A module which enables slimming down and a timepiece provided with the module are provided. The timepiece module includes a timepiece movement which is a driving section that moves pointers, and a liquid crystal display panel which has an opening section where the timepiece movement is arranged, and is arranged in parallel with the timepiece movement. Since the timepiece movement is arranged in the opening section of the liquid crystal display panel and positioned in parallel with the liquid crystal display panel, the timepiece movement and the liquid crystal display panels do not vertically overlap with each other, whereby the slimming down of the entire timepiece module can be achieved, which enables the slimming down of the entire wristwatch.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiko Enta
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Patent number: 12602008Abstract: A regulating member (1) for a horological movement including an oscillating weight, for example a balance, and a balance spring including a flexible strip (2) wound about itself in a plurality of turns, the strip (2) having a predefined rigidity to allow the oscillating weight to undergo a rotary oscillatory motion, the strip (2) including an outer end (9), wherein the regulating member (1, 10) includes a temperature-compensating resilient device configured to adapt the stiffness thereof as a function of the temperature to compensate for the effect of temperature on the regulating member (1, 10), the resilient device including a resilient element (5) connecting the outer end (9) to a first support (7) that is stationary relative to the horological movement, as well as preloading means (6) for applying a variable force or torque to the resilient element (5) as a function of the temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development LtdInventors: Gianni Di Domenico, Baptiste Hinaux, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Jean-Luc Helfer, Pascal Winkler
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Patent number: 12596332Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a watch face using NFC tagging performed by at least one server includes obtaining watch face request information from a user terminal based on uniform resource locator (URL) information corresponding to a strap; and providing information about a watch face matching the strap based on the URL information to the user terminal. The URL information is obtained from a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag mounted on the strap via an NFC reader installed in the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: APPOSTER INC.Inventor: Sung Hyun Kyung
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Patent number: 12591208Abstract: The present invention provides a time display method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The time display method is applied to the electronic device, including: displaying a time dial, where the time dial includes a target pointer; and adjusting a display mode of the target pointer according to a first parameter of the electronic device, where the display mode of the target pointer includes at least one of the following: a color of the target pointer, a color filling amount of the target pointer, and a display attribute of a target element associated with the target pointer; and in a case that the display mode of the target pointer includes the display attribute of the target element, in a process of adjusting the display attribute of the target element, controlling a position relationship between the target element and the target pointer to remain unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenbin Ji, Yun Chen, TikFan Chan
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Patent number: 12585230Abstract: A timepiece module includes a digital display screen, an antenna device and a metallic component. The antenna device includes an antenna pattern relevant to communication and an antenna component connected to and extending from the antenna pattern. In a plan view, the antenna pattern has a curved shape and overlaps the digital display screen. The antenna device is disposed such that either one side or other side on a virtual line does not overlap the metallic component. The virtual line is an extending direction in which the antenna component, which extends from the antenna pattern, extends.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyohei Hasebe, Daisuke Ikeda, Shinya Cho
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Patent number: 12566407Abstract: A device for automatic winding of a barrel spring of a watch includes an oscillating mass, an entry disk kinematically linked to the oscillating mass, two reduction disks and a ratchet driving disk, each reduction disk including a reduction wheel bearing at least four planetary wheels, and a transmission pinion about which the reduction wheel is loosely mounted, the entry disk being kinematically linked to the two reduction wheels such that, regardless of the direction of rotation in which it is driven by the oscillating mass, it rotates the two reduction wheels in mutually different directions, the planetary wheels forming, in each of the reduction disks, ratchets to connect in rotation the transmission pinion and the reduction wheel only when the reduction wheel pivots in a predefined direction of rotation, the predefined direction of rotation being identical for either of the reduction wheels.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.Inventor: Jean-Philippe Rochat
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Patent number: 12566410Abstract: A timepiece (1) intended to transmit commands to an external device (70), including: a digital display (6); a wireless communication circuit (82); a manual selection interface (5, 6); a microphone (87); and a processing unit (81) configured to: transmit a command to an external device (70) depending on an audible signal received on the microphone (87); depending on a history of previously selected commands, environment criteria, behavioural criteria, physiological criteria of the wearer of the timepiece, or state criteria of the external device, define a list of command suggestions to be displayed; display on the digital display (6) a command interface comprising the command suggestions (cmd1, cmd2, cmd3, cmd4, cmd5, cmd6, cmd7) of the defined list.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSEInventor: Pascal Lagorgette
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Patent number: 12560894Abstract: A wearable device configured to be positioned on a user's wrist, includes a rechargeable battery configured to provide energy for the wearable device, the rechargeable battery including a first pole and a second pole, an enclosure, a crown protruding through the enclosure, the crown being a hardware input for the user, and a case back configured to be at least partially in contact with the skin of the wrist, wherein the crown is configured to be electrically connected to the first pole and wherein the enclosure is configured to be electrically connected to the second pole.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: WITHINGSInventors: Victor Pimenta, Manon Navellou, Thomas Droze, Samuel Clerc
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Patent number: 12547124Abstract: A management server serving as an information processing apparatus includes ROM or RAM that stores programs, and at least one processor executing the stored programs. The processor is configured to execute processing including: acquiring the component information comprising at least one selected from the 24-hour meter or the small clock or the 24-hour meter or the date window or the function display board provided on the board surface of the timepiece, which points a symbol indicating certain information or displays the certain information, and the component image such as the 24-hour meter image or the small clock image or the 24-hour meter image or the date window image or the function display board image corresponding to the component information; and setting the component image which is common to a plurality of types of timepieces by associating the component information with the plurality of types of the timepieces.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Kameda, Eriko Miura, Yuki Niino
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Patent number: 12535775Abstract: An apparatus, intended for use in indicating time interval durations of particular events in an augmented reality display, includes a computer system with a processing system having a hardware processor and a memory accessible to the processing system, a user interface controller under control of the processing system, a display controllable by the user interface controller to show a user interface, and logic, under control of the processing system. The logic has modules that control the user interface controller to cause the display to show a first clockface that indicates a time interval duration for at least a first event and an augmented reality background appearing behind the first clockface.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: Samrat Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Samrat Dudhat
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Patent number: 12535772Abstract: A timepiece component includes a base material including silicon as a main component, and a light reflecting layer formed on the base material and including a first silicon oxide layer, a silicon layer, and a second silicon oxide layer stacked in this order, when the light reflecting layer is viewed in plan view, the light reflecting layer includes a first region and a second region, and at least one of the thicknesses of the first silicon oxide layer in the first region and the second region and the thicknesses of the second silicon oxide layer in the first region and the second region is set such that the thicknesses are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takeo Funakawa
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Patent number: 12517472Abstract: An electrode terminal which facilitates the housing of a battery, a module equipped with the electrode terminal, and a timepiece equipped with the electrode terminal and the module.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masataka Iida
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Patent number: 12517464Abstract: A mechanism including a rotary element and a magnetic device for guiding this rotary element in rotation arranged so as to exert a radial magnetic biasing force on the rotary element when a central axis of this rotary element undergoes a radial movement relative to a given axis of rotation. The magnetic device includes a pair of annular magnets the first annular magnet of which is carried by the rotary element and the second annular magnet is carried by a structure of the mechanism. The second annular magnet is parallel and axially superimposed with the first annular magnet when the central axis of the rotary element is coincident with the axis of rotation, the first and second annular magnets being arranged in magnetic attraction so as to impart on one another an axial magnetic force and a radial magnetic force.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development LtdInventors: Milan Calic, Jean-Pierre Mignot
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Patent number: 12517466Abstract: A method that prints a functional element on a surface of a receiving area of a timepiece component of a timepiece contributing to regulating the rate of this timepiece includes preparing a solution containing a material constituting the functional element and depositing the prepared solution onto the surface of the receiving area. Specific properties of the solution are defined as a function of preparation criteria and include at least one structural modification feature of the timepiece component, at least one construction feature of the functional element on the receiving area, at least one structural feature of the material to be applied to the receiving area, and at least one feature of the receiving area of the component.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA—Recherche et développementInventors: Sébastien Lani, Raphael Pugin, Nicholas Raymond Hendricks
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Patent number: 12498673Abstract: Watch with quartz movement with oil bath lubrication, comprising a case body (2) arranged between a transparent cap (3) and a closure element (18) so as to delimit a fluid-tight capsule (1) in an oil bath; a dial (11) arranged inside the capsule (1) below the cap (3); a motor body (10) arranged inside the oil bath capsule (1) and comprising an electrically powered motor for performing the movement of the watch and gears (12) for transmitting the movement to the dial (11); a seat (13) arranged externally and fluid-tight with respect to said capsule to house an electric battery (8) for powering the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 16, 2025Assignee: HI TEK OFFICE S.R.L.Inventor: Italo Fontana
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Patent number: 12481246Abstract: A barrel (1) for self-winding timepiece including a drum (11) provided with an inner lateral wall (12) and a mainspring (2) forming a winding including an outer coil (21) the end (22) of which is friction coupled with the inner lateral wall and free to slip against the inner lateral wall in the event of overtension of the mainspring (2). The end of the outer coil includes an external face (23) having two friction surfaces (24, 25) disposed in the top and bottom portion of the outer coil and arranged to be in contact with the inner lateral wall in such a way that the portion between the friction surfaces, referred to as central portion (26), is not in contact with the inner lateral wall, the central portion forming a reservoir (27) for a lubricant between the two friction surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: NIVAROX-FAR S.A.Inventors: Gerard Vorpe, Laurent Jeanneret, Pierre Cusin
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Patent number: 12461490Abstract: A horological display mechanism (100) for displaying variables on separate unit display supports (10), each enclosing a display indicator (901; 902) which is a first display (901) capable of moving in translation, or a second display (902) capable of moving in rotation, all of these unit supports (10) include indicators (901; 902) of the same kind, which are either first displays (901) for displaying a first variable, or second displays (902) for displaying a second variable, or both first displays (901) and second displays (902), all visible to the user, the display mechanism (100) includes a control mechanism (300) arranged to drive wheels or rod systems for driving the different display wheel sets and includes a first carrier (111) for driving, by itself, all of the first displays (901), and/or a second carrier (112) for driving, by itself, all of said second displays (902).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: Harry Winston SAInventors: Berhnard Karl Lederer, Cyrille Bernard
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Patent number: 12443143Abstract: A train wheel holding structure includes a main plate, a train wheel bridge, a pointer hand wheel or a pointe wheel supported by the main plate and the train wheel bridge, and a rotation hand movement train wheel or a fan-shaped/sector hand movement train wheel driving the pointer hand wheel, the train wheel bridge includes support holes corresponding to different two positions to support the pointer hand wheel, and between the two support holes of the train wheel bridge, a bush supporting the pointer hand wheel or the pointer hand wheel without looseness is provided in the support hole or the support hole by which the pointer hand wheel or the pointer hand wheel is supported and the bush is not provided in the support hole or the support hole by which the pointer hand wheel or the pointer hand wheel is not supported.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoichiro Morita, Daisuke Yamada
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Patent number: 12436501Abstract: A solar watch includes a dial at a solar cell, wherein a decorative member is provided at the dial, the dial includes a subdial, a transflective plate is provided between the solar cell and the dial, the transflective plate has a first region selectively provided at a portion overlapping the subdial, a second region provided at a portion overlapping an outer periphery of the dial, and a third region coupling the first region and the second region, and the third region is selectively provided at a portion overlapping the decorative member.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shoki Mukaide