Patents by Inventor Siegfried Grau

Siegfried Grau 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: 20140247699
    Abstract: A wearable device comprising a display arrangement for displaying moon phases. The image of the one or more moons is provided in the dial and a rotating member is provided above the dial to provide images of a full, waning, new and waxing moon. The device provides for both bi-directional and uni-directional rotation of the rotating member. The device can simultaneously or selectively display moon phases consistent with views from the northern hemisphere and/or southern hemisphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Timex Group USA, Inc.
    Inventors: BORIS SEMBRITZKI, SIEGFRIED GRAU
  • Publication number: 20130322218
    Abstract: A wearable timepiece having at least one rotateable elongated member, preferably a ring, under the dial, having a plurality of time zone indications thereon, wherein a controller controls the rotation of the at least one elongated member and causes an indicator to rotate in response to a selected time zone indication positioned in a viewing window in the dial, wherein the indicator points to indicia on the dial assembly that indicates to a user the time indicated by the selected time zone indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Burkhardt, Roland Burghausen, Louis M. Galie, Siegfried Grau, Gerhard Stotz
  • Patent number: 7027361
    Abstract: A timepiece comprising a date display, comprising a date display assembly comprising a date ring, a first gearing assembly being meshingly coupled to the date ring for causing the rotation of the date ring; and a stepping motor comprising a rotor, wherein the rotor of the stepping motor is rotateably coupled to the at least one or more wheels of the first gearing assembly, wherein the rotation of the rotor causes the date ring to rotate; a date-keeping assembly operatively coupled to the date display assembly, comprising: at least a second gearing assembly comprising at least an hour wheel and a detection wheel assembly, wherein at least certain rotational increments of the detection wheel, and the clockwise or counterclockwise direction thereof, causes the rotor of the stepping motor to rotate so that the date ring can be rotated in one of a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; whereby the rotation of the hour wheel through a predetermined midnight position results in that the stepping motor causes the d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Timex Group B.V.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Burkhardt, Louis M. Galie, Michel G. Plancon, Helmut Zachmann, Gerhard Stotz, Siegfried Grau
  • Patent number: 6896403
    Abstract: The mode selecting assembly comprises a flexible hand, coupled to a frame in the casing, that has extending therefrom fingers that are sufficiently deflectable so as to deflect from first positions where they are not in contact with associated pads on a circuit board to second positions where they are in contact with their associated pads on the circuit board. A setting stem comprises an annular ring for selectively contacting and deflecting the fingers from their respective first positions to second positions, wherein the integrated circuit is operable in a selected modes depending on which finger is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Timex Group B.V.
    Inventor: Siegfried Grau
  • Publication number: 20050105398
    Abstract: A timepiece comprising a date display, comprising a date display assembly comprising a date ring, a first gearing assembly being meshingly coupled to the date ring for causing the rotation of the date ring; and a stepping motor comprising a rotor, wherein the rotor of the stepping motor is rotateably coupled to the at least one or more wheels of the first gearing assembly, wherein the rotation of the rotor causes the date ring to rotate; a date-keeping assembly operatively coupled to the date display assembly, comprising: at least a second gearing assembly comprising at least an hour wheel and a detection wheel assembly, wherein at least certain rotational increments of the detection wheel, and the clockwise or counterclockwise direction thereof, causes the rotor of the stepping motor to rotate so that the date ring can be rotated in one of a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; whereby the rotation of the hour wheel through a predetermined midnight position results in that the stepping motor causes the d
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Wolfgang Burkhardt, Louis Galie, Michel Plancon, Helmut Zachmann, Gerhard Stotz, Siegfried Grau
  • Patent number: 6773157
    Abstract: A time adjustment assembly for a timepiece comprises a fast hour wheel that is movable between a first position where it is not rotationally engageable with the hour wheel and a second position where it is rotationally engageable with the hour wheel; a corrector wheel, mounted on the setting stem, for rotating the fast hour wheel; and a setting spring selectively engageable with the fast hour wheel to move the fast hour wheel between the fast hour wheel's first position and second position; wherein when the fast hour wheel is in rotational engagement with the hour wheel the setting stem is out of engagement with the setting wheel and an hour hand is movable independently of the minute hand via the rotation of the setting stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Timex Group B.V.
    Inventor: Siegfried Grau
  • Patent number: 5349574
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to a horological movement provided with shaft guide means.This movement has horometric means (H) capable of supplying a time information and at least one control member (34) composed of the shaft and adapted to act on the horometric means (H), this control member (34) being guided axially and/or in rotation by the intermediary of guide means, this movement also being characterized in that said guide means are composed of three guide pieces (38, 40, 42) mounted and maintained sandwiched on one another to form therebetween a seating in which the control member (34) is freely received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: ETA S.A. Fabriques D'Ebauches
    Inventors: Jakob Edwin, Siegfried Grau