Patents by Inventor Raphaël Loeffel

Raphaël Loeffel 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: 9176476
    Abstract: Autonomous control mechanism (100) for a movement, comprising a control stem (10) moveable relative to a bar (80) between stable stem positions, for controlling the pivoting, in each of said positions, of a single control train of the control trains of said mechanism (100). It includes, on a first side (81) of said bar (80), a first control train (810), and on a second side (82) opposite said bar (80), a second control train (820). Every stable position of the control stem (10) drives a stable position of a pull-out piece (20) fitted to one of said sides and moveable relative to a boss (210) of said bar (80). In said stable pull-out piece position, any movement applied to the control stem (10) causes the pivoting movement, of either a single first control train (810), or a single second control train (820).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE
    Inventors: Raphael Loeffel, Ivan Villar, Marco Bettelini
  • Patent number: 8926168
    Abstract: Timepiece barrel with a drum coaxial to a barrel arbour in a direction arranged to confine a barrel spring hooked to the drum and to a core coaxial to the barrel arbour and guided thereon. The core pivots in a bore of the drum, and includes a first stopping surface limiting the axial travel of the core, in the direction, relative to an inner face of the drum, and a second stopping surface opposite the first and limiting the axial travel of the core, relative to an outer face of the drum, which is arranged, on the one hand, imprisoned between the first stopping surface and the second stopping surface, and on the other hand to pivot freely about the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Christophe Cattin, Raphael Loeffel, Gael Feusier
  • Patent number: 8483015
    Abstract: The invention concerns an AM/PM display disc (1), rotating in one day about an axis of rotation (2), including two different juxtaposed surfaces (3, 4). It is characterized in that the surfaces are delimited, between a hub (5) and the periphery (6) of said disc (1) by two boundary curves (7, 8), each tangential to said periphery (6) and having a single concavity from said periphery (6) towards said hub (5), the concavities of said curves (7, 8) having the same direction relative to the direction of rotation (A) of said disc (1), and any radial line originating from said axis (2) intersecting, in succession, one of said two surfaces, then the other, and only passing through one of said curves between said hub (5) and said periphery (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.
    Inventors: Olivier Mahler, Raphael Loeffel
  • Publication number: 20130051194
    Abstract: Autonomous control mechanism (100) for a movement, comprising a control stem (10) moveable relative to a bar (80) between stable stem positions, for controlling the pivoting, in each of said positions, of a single control train of the control trains of said mechanism (100). It includes, on a first side (81) of said bar (80), a first control train (810), and on a second side (82) opposite said bar (80), a second control train (820). Every stable position of the control stem (10) drives a stable position of a pull-out piece (20) fitted to one of said sides and moveable relative to a boss (210) of said bar (80). In said stable pull-out piece position, any movement applied to the control stem (10) causes the pivoting movement, of either a single first control train (810), or a single second control train (820).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE
    Inventors: Raphaël LOEFFEL, Ivan VILLAR, Marco BETTELINI
  • Publication number: 20110310707
    Abstract: The invention concerns an AM/PM display disc (1), rotating in one day about an axis of rotation (2), including two different juxtaposed surfaces (3, 4). It is characterized in that the surfaces are delimited, between a hub (5) and the periphery (6) of said disc (1) by two boundary curves (7, 8), each tangential to said periphery (6) and having a single concavity from said periphery (6) towards said hub (5), the concavities of said curves (7, 8) having the same direction relative to the direction of rotation (A) of said disc (1), and any radial line originating from said axis (2) intersecting, in succession, one of said two surfaces, then the other, and only passing through one of said curves between said hub (5) and said periphery (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.
    Inventors: Olivier MAHLER, Raphaël Loeffel