Patents by Inventor Elias LAFORGE

Elias LAFORGE 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).

  • Patent number: 12072632
    Abstract: A method for fabricating metal decorations on a domed dial made of insulating material, wherein the method includes the steps of forming a photosensitive resin mould by a UV LIGA type process, and electrodepositing a layer of at least one metal starting from the conductive layer to form a block, which substantially reaches the upper surface of the photosensitive resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Elias Laforge, Alexandre Haemmerli, Benjamin Tixier, Pascal Grossenbacher, Pierry Vuille
  • Publication number: 20230185242
    Abstract: The piezoelectric balance spring (3) is provided for a circuit (10) for self-regulating an oscillation frequency of an oscillating mechanical system (2, 3), or an energy recovery circuit or a motor circuit for actuating the movement or for the automatic maintenance thereof. The piezoelectric balance spring (3) comprises at least one piezoelectric layer (7, 7?, 17, 17?, 27, 27?) disposed on a top face (20) or bottom face of a certain number of coils of the spring in a plane, and at least two pairs of electrodes (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d), whereby the electrodes of each pair are disposed on two opposing faces of the same piezoelectric layer or respectively two piezoelectric layers so as to apply a reverse bias voltage on each pair of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Alexandre DIDIER, François Gueissaz, Elias Laforge
  • Patent number: 11547187
    Abstract: A method for assembling a stone on a setting support, the stone being cut to exhibit a table, a crown, a girdle and a pavilion, including the steps of: providing a substrate coated with a pattern including an electrically conductive layer covered with a resin layer, the pattern having an inner contour delimiting a hole through the coated substrate and an outer contour corresponding to the outer contour of the desired setting support; removing the resin layer; after dissolution of the resin layer, positioning the stone in the through hole, the stone resting on the electrically conductive layer; and electrodepositing a metal layer on the electrically conductive layer to form the setting support, in order to make the stone integral with the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventor: Elias Laforge
  • Patent number: 11499242
    Abstract: A method for producing metal decorations on a curved dial made of insulating material includes forming, by a method of the LIGA-UV type, a mould made of photosensitive resin and of galvanically depositing a layer of at least one metal from the conductive layer in order to form a block substantially reaching the upper surface of the photosensitive resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Elias Laforge, Simon Springer
  • Publication number: 20210054518
    Abstract: A method for producing metal decorations on a curved dial made of insulating material includes forming, by a method of the LIGA-UV type, a mould made of photosensitive resin and of galvanically depositing a layer of at least one metal from the conductive layer in order to form a block substantially reaching the upper surface of the photosensitive resin
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Elias LAFORGE, Simon SPRINGER
  • Publication number: 20210030124
    Abstract: A method for assembling a stone on a setting support, the stone being cut to exhibit a table, a crown, a girdle and a pavilion, including the steps of: providing a substrate coated with a pattern including an electrically conductive layer covered with a resin layer, the pattern having an inner contour delimiting a hole through the coated substrate and an outer contour corresponding to the outer contour of the desired setting support; removing the resin layer; after dissolution of the resin layer, positioning the stone in the through hole, the stone resting on the electrically conductive layer; and electrodepositing a metal layer on the electrically conductive layer to form the setting support, in order to make the stone integral with the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventor: Elias LAFORGE
  • Publication number: 20190278182
    Abstract: A method for fabricating metal decorations on a domed dial made of insulating material, wherein the method includes the steps of forming a photosensitive resin mould by a UV LIGA type process, and electrodepositing a layer of at least one metal starting from the conductive layer to form a block, which substantially reaches the upper surface of the photosensitive resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Elias LAFORGE, Alexandre HAEMMERLI, Benjamin TIXIER, Pascal GROSSENBACHER, Pierry VUILLE