Patents by Inventor Pascal Derivaz

Pascal Derivaz 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: 6809993
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic timepiece allowing the display of at least one first time related data item (H1) conventionally based on the Hour-Minute-Second system, and at least one second time related data item (H2) based on a decimal system in which the time is divided at least into thousandths of a day. For this purpose the timepiece according to the present invention includes generating means (14) which, from auxiliary control pulses (IL) originating from the time base (2), allow second control pulses (I2) to be supplied allowing said second time related data item (H2) to be formed and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Swatch AG
    Inventors: Jacques Müller, Pascal Derivaz, Roger Marquis
  • Patent number: 6052339
    Abstract: Watch with visual and touch horometric functions, including:a case (1) sealed by a crystal (4) arranged above an analogue dial (5) surrounded by a fixed bezel (8)a time-keeping circuit (10), a stepping motor (11);a non-acoustic vibration generating device (20);a power source (24) supplying the circuit (10), the motor (11) and the vibration generating device (20);twelve sensors (C.sub.1 to C.sub.12) facing the twelve time positions and a control element (9);an electronic coding circuit (25) associated with the circuit (10), the sensors (C.sub.1 to C.sub.12) and the control device (9) to control the vibration generating device (20);wherein the bezel (8) has twelve projections (R.sub.1 to R.sub.12) being arranged between the twelve sensors (C.sub.1 to C.sub.12) which extend radially beyond the bezel (8) and the case (1), said projections (R.sub.1 to R.sub.12) to guide a user's finger towards a determined sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Asulab S.A.
    Inventors: Erik Jan Frenkel, Pascal Derivaz