Patents by Inventor Léonard Testori

Léonard Testori 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).

  • Publication number: 20230198429
    Abstract: A rotary piezoelectric motor (1), in particular for a timepiece, including a rotor (3) configured to rotate and actuate a mechanical device, and a stator (2) configured to rotate the rotor (3), the stator (2) including a piezoelectric actuator provided with a resonator (29) arranged to perform an oscillatory motion, and a fixed element (4). The resonator in a movable element (5) arranged at a distance from the fixed element (4) and connected to the fixed element (4), the piezoelectric actuator being configured to move the movable element (5) against the rotor (3) to make it rotate, the movement of the movable element (5) making the rotor (3) rotate in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques BORN, Yvan Ferri, Alexandre Didier, Lionel Paratte, Léonard Testori
  • Publication number: 20230195040
    Abstract: A method for compensating the rate as a function of the temperature of a watch (1). A water-resistant case (2) contains a movement (3) with an oscillator (4), in an internal volume V occupied by n moles of a gas of constant R, where the pressure coefficient Cp and the humidity coefficient Ch of the movement (3) are determined, an optimal value Cto of the thermal coefficient Ct of the oscillator (4) is calculated defining the relatively linear variation of the rate thereof as a function of the temperature T, compensating the pressure and humidity deviations. The pressure P and/or the constant R and/or the quantity of gas and/or the temperature T are varied in the case. In the factory, the thermal coefficient of elastic return, and/or the quantity and/or the nature of the gas in the watch, and/or the internal volume of the case (2) are modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: OMEGA SA
    Inventor: Léonard TESTORI
  • Patent number: 11073798
    Abstract: A bearing (1a) for guiding a timepiece shaft about an axis, notably a guide bearing for a portion of a timepiece resonator shaft, comprising at least one pressing element (13a) arranged in such a way as to constantly exert an action on the shaft, radially or substantially radially with respect to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: ROLEX SA
    Inventors: Raphaël Cettour-Baron, Olivier Hunziker, Léonard Testori
  • Publication number: 20180284698
    Abstract: A bearing (1a) for guiding a timepiece shaft about an axis, notably a guide bearing for a portion of a timepiece resonator shaft, comprising at least one pressing element (13a) arranged in such a way as to constantly exert an action on the shaft, radially or substantially radially with respect to the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: ROLEX SA
    Inventors: Raphaël Cettour-Baron, Olivier Hunziker, Léonard Testori