With Calendar Indicator Patents (Class 368/28)
  • Publication number: 20090185453
    Abstract: A timepiece, includes a frame supporting a drive element, a time base and drive trains pivotably mounted on the frame and arranged so as to drive at least one display train intended to carry an element displaying information, such as the time. The movement also includes a fixed gear, firmly attached to the frame, with which a toothed element of the display train is arranged to mesh, and a drive element having first and second kinematic links, respectively, with one of the drive trains and with the toothed element so as to drive the latter in translation in a first direction along the fixed gear. Preferably, the drive element is embodied in the form of a deformable element, and the movement also includes a retrograde mechanism for driving the toothed element rapidly in the opposite direction by means of the drive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: AGENHOR SA
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, Paul Junod
  • Publication number: 20090168607
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for multiple reminder and sub-events for calendar items. Exemplary embodiments include a method including creating an event having an event time in the electronic calendar, creating a first reminder associated with the event and configured to activate at a first time prior to the event and creating another reminder associated with the event and configured to activate at a second time prior to the event and after the first time. Additional exemplary embodiments include a method including identifying deadlines associated with the sub-events, setting a reminder for each of the deadlines associated with the sub-events, setting a sound attribute for each of the reminders, and activating the reminder for each of the deadlines associated with the sub-events. An activation two reminders having a common deadline can have a unique sound attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T DELAWARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC.
    Inventors: Jerry Liu, Darryl Moore, Steven Tischer
  • Patent number: 7535802
    Abstract: The invention concerns an annual calendar mechanism, including: a date ring including a lug and 31 teeth, and a date wheel set arranged for rotating the date ring through one step per day, an intermediate wheel set cooperating with the lug such that the date wheel set drives the intermediate wheel set through a first step when the date passes from the 30th to the 31st of the month, via the date ring, an annual wheel set meshed with the intermediate wheel set and cooperating with the date wheel set, the date, intermediate and annual wheel sets being arranged such that the date wheel set drives the intermediate wheel set through a second step when the date passes from the 31st to the 1st of the month, for the months of 31 days, via the date ring, and such that the date wheel set drives the intermediate wheel set through a second step after the date has passed from the 30th to the 31st of the month, for the months of less than 31 days, via the annual wheel set, the intermediate wheel set then driving the date
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventor: Loïc Pellaton
  • Patent number: 7532545
    Abstract: The inventive timepiece provided with a date dial comprises a date disc driven step by step once per 24 hours. The dial of the time piece is provided with unit figures distributed along a circular sector and crossed by a window which is embodied in the form of a circular arc and extends through the entire angular length of the circular sector. A display member connected to the date disc appears in the window and comprises an index of units, figures 1 and 2 of tens and a window for figure 3 of tens. A screen associated to a return spring is positioned between the dial and the display member provided with an element for driving the movable screen oppositely to the return spring in order to position it in front of the index when said index is situated in front of the figure 0 of units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Inventor: Sylvain Boileau
  • Patent number: 7532546
    Abstract: A timepiece with calendar mechanism has a time indicator that indicates time by undergoing rotation in accordance with a driving operation of a drive mechanism, and first and second separate and independent date indicators each having date characters and each mounted to undergo intermittent rotation so that combinations of the date characters of the first and second date indicators indicate a units numeral of a date. A third date indicator has date characters and is mounted to undergo rotation for indicating a tens numeral of the date. A program wheel intermittently rotates the first, second and third date indicators in accordance with a driving operation of the drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeo Suzuki, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7522476
    Abstract: The invention is a timepiece calendar mechanism for displaying the date and the day of the week, including a date indicator in the form of an internally toothed crown. The date indicator is driven by a first drive wheel having an external toothing so as to be able to be driven about an axis of rotation by a wheel set secured to an hour wheel of the timepiece. The toothing includes a prominent tooth, longer than the others, which abuts against a tooth of the inner toothing of the date indicator to move it forward one day in a time interval located around a determined time of the day. The mechanism also includes a day of the week indicator that moves forward one day during the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Marc Kuepfer, Marco Bettelini
  • Publication number: 20090059729
    Abstract: A reminder system has a user interface with a microphone, display and at least one manually operable control. A processor that is coupled to the user interface has a memory and an input for receiving image information signifying at least one predetermined image for storage in the memory. The processor can display simultaneously on the display a calendar image and the predetermined image. In another mode the processor can display at least the predetermined image without displaying the calendar image. In yet another mode the screen can display a conventional clock face with minute and hour hands. As an option, the user can upload a number of images that can then replace the hours numerals on the clock face. Using the user interface and the microphone one can store in the memory at least one pair of a spoken message and a scheduled time. The processor can make the spoken message automatically available at the scheduled time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jonah Olayinka, Thomas James Formanes
  • Patent number: 7492669
    Abstract: A timepiece is provided with a calendar mechanism having a first date indicator for indicating a units position of a date and a second date indicator for indicating a tens position of the date. The first date indicator has a drive cam for rotating the second date indicator and determining a position of the second date indicator. The second date indicator includes a first date character indicating face having numerals “1”, “2”, “3”, and “0”, and a second date character indicating face having a fan-like shape and including four pieces of trapezoidal-shaped portions formed by a pitch interval of (2*360/31) degrees through (3*360/31) degrees, three pieces of notched portions formed by a pitch interval of (2*360/31) degrees through (3*360/31) degrees, and a set of numerals comprising a numeral of “1”, a numeral of “2”, a numeral of “3”, and a numeral of “0”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7492671
    Abstract: It is made possible to display a time instant and a reception sensitivity even during a standard radio signal is received, without adding a special constitution as much as possible. A reception circuit receives and outputs a time code included in the standard radio signal, through an antenna, and a control circuit corrects a time instant being clocked to a time instant corresponding to the time code. In a case where the reception sensitivity of the standard radio signal is displayed, the control circuit judges the reception sensitivity of the standard radio signal on the basis of the time code from the reception circuit, and controls such that, by rotation-controlling a date indicator by referring to a reception sensitivity versus date indicator position correspondence table, the reception sensitivity is displayed by date letters of the date indicator and a time instant display is performed by time instant hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 7480211
    Abstract: The secular perpetual calendar comprises an additional mechanism (4 to 13) integrated in a conventional perpetual calendar mechanism comprising a last wheel (13) making one revolution in 400 years, this wheel (13) carrying a cam (13?) of which the steps cooperate with a lever (9) on which pivots a wheel (6) which carries a satellite (7?) on which is attached the February cam (7) and the cam (13?), which makes one quarter turn every century, presenting three low steps enabling the lever (9) to move back in such a way that the cam (7) on which the multiple lever (2) will press is in the same position as for a conventional 28-day month of February three times in succession for the years 2100, 2200 and 2300, and then a high step to restore the 29th of February of the year 2400.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Franck Müler Watchland S.A.
    Inventor: Pierre-Michel Golay
  • Patent number: 7480212
    Abstract: A motion-activated reminder calendar (1) having a front panel (38) and a rear panel (39) connected to one another by a plurality of sides (40), a calendar display (47) located on the front panel (38), a date display (4) having a plurality of day displays (9), a motion-activated sensor (5) electrically connected to a voltage source (34), a data storage means (42) electrically connected to the sensor (5), a record button (11) located on each day display (9) and electrically connected to the data storage means (42) and located on each day display (9) wherein the data storage means (42) records and stores the verbal reminders and a speaker (6) electrically connected to the data storage means (42) wherein the verbal reminder is transmitted through the speaker (6) on the selected day display (9) when motion is detected by the motion-activated sensor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Inventor: Marc C. DuBreuil
  • Publication number: 20090003138
    Abstract: A data acquisition system is disclosed. The data acquisition system includes one or more remote machines, and an off-board system in communication with the one or more remote machines. The off-board system is configured to display a calendar interface having a plurality of selectable entries each corresponding to a different period of time, receive a user's selection of one of the plurality of selectable entries corresponding to a desired period of time, receive a user's selection of one of the one or more remote machines, and receive a user's selection of one of a plurality of available operational parameters monitored by the selected one of the one or more remote machines. The off-board system is further configured to update a configuration of the selected one of the one or more remote machines based on the desired period of time and the selected one of a plurality of available operational parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Donnelli, Daniel Craig Wood, Anthony Dean McNealy, Alan Lewis Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20080304367
    Abstract: Methods, systems and machine readable media for operating a calendar in a data processing system. In one exemplary method, a calendar interface is displayed on a device, wherein the calendar interface is capable of zooming between a first or current time frame and a target time frame containing an invitation while preserving contextual continuity for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Manuel Colom
  • Patent number: 7463556
    Abstract: A programmable, microprocessor-based alarm clock apparatus provides seven independent alarms each one of which is specifically tied to one of the seven days of the week. Each alarm may be independently set in terms of appointed alarm-sounding time and active state (either on or off).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: American Innovative, LLC
    Inventor: Adam B. Hocherman
  • Patent number: 7460764
    Abstract: An apparatus for programming recording of a TV program and/or a radio program and a control method therefor performs displaying an analog clock; and displaying programmed recording information at a corresponding time position of the displayed analog clock in a superposed manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Eiichi Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 7457202
    Abstract: A date display mechanism has a first driving wheel that rotationally drives a first date indicator for displaying places of units and a second driving wheel that rotationally drives a second date indicator for displaying places of tens. The second driving wheel causes the second driving wheel to rotate by one tooth when the date shifts from a 9th day to a l0th day, from a 19th day to a 20th day, and from a 29th day to a 30th day. A program wheel performs one revolution in 31 days and controls rotation of the first date indicator and the second date indicator so that from the 1st day to the 31st day, the first date indicator is rotated by one tooth every day, and so that when the date shifts from the 31st day to 1st day, the first date indicator is retained to a position of the 31st day and the second date indicator is rotated by one tooth to thereby cause the 1st day to be displayed by the date display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Masaaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20080285389
    Abstract: An electronic calendar provides a large area switch array with multiple dedicated date entry buttons and multiple date entry modes to substantially reduce operator access time. Lightweight low profile circuitry allows the calendar to be easily attached by a consumer to the front of a refrigerator or the like and audio messaging eliminates time-consuming handwritten entries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Robert F. Borovsky, John P. Downs, Patrick A. Downs, Burton J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 7436737
    Abstract: An electric watch is characterized by including a transmitting circuit 6 for generating a plurality of transmitted signals, transmitting electrodes 1 and 2 for outputting the output signals generated by the transmitting circuit 6, a signal modulating member 3 composed of a rotor arranged adjacently to the transmitting electrodes 1 and 2 in a non-contact manner for modulating the transmitted signals, a receiving electrode 4 arranged adjacently to the signal modulating member 3 in a non-contact manner for receiving the transmitted signals modulated by the signal modulating member 3, a receiving circuit 7 for amplifying received signals received by the receiving electrode 4, and a detecting circuit 8 for detecting mechanical position information of the signal modulating member 3 based on the received signal amplified by the receiving circuit 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Kiyotaka Igarashi, Shinichi Komine, Ryoji Iwakura, Shigeru Morokawa
  • Patent number: 7433271
    Abstract: The invention is a timepiece calendar mechanism for displaying the date and the day of the week, including a date indicator in the form of an internally toothed crown. The date indicator is driven by a first drive wheel having an external toothing so as to be able to be driven about an axis of rotation by a wheel set secured to an hour wheel of the timepiece. The toothing includes a prominent tooth, longer than the others, which abuts against a tooth of the inner toothing of the date indicator to move it forward one day in a time interval located around a determined time of the day. The mechanism also includes a day of the week indicator that moves forward one day during the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Marc Kuepfer, Marco Bettelini
  • Patent number: 7433269
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic timepiece comprising manual control means (21, 23) for the selection of different modes and an analog display provided with indicators (26, 27, 28, 32, 34) moved separately by electric motors to indicate the time on a dial (22) in a time mode and other information in one or more other modes, said indicators comprising at least an hour hand (26), a minute hand (27), a day indicator (32) and a month indicator (34). In addition, at least one of the modes to be selected is an event indication mode, in which the Gregorian date of a movable event is delivered by the electronic circuits of the timepiece and is displayed at least by the day indicator (32) and month indicator (34), said timepiece having means for the display of the number of the Gregorian year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: ASULAB S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Vuilleumier, Jean-Jacques Born
  • Patent number: 7420880
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a controller having an integrated circuit operable in at least a first and second mode, and a dial having a window through which at least one indicator is visible, wherein the electronic device comprises a mode indicator positioned on an actuation mechanism side of the dial, wherein the mode indicator has at least a first indicator and a second indicator each respectively representative of one of the at least two modes within which the electronic device is operable; a gearing assembly comprising one or more wheels, being meshingly coupled to the mode indicator so that the rotation of the one or more wheels causes the rotation of the mode indicator; an actuation mechanism, rotateably coupled to the at least one or more wheels of the gearing assembly, wherein the rotation of the actuation mechanism causes the rotation of the mode indicator; wherein the integrated circuit controls the actuation of the actuation mechanism so as to initiate the rotation of the mode indicator; and ac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Timex Group B.V.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Burkhardt, Gerhard Stotz, Hans Schnell, Martin Dietrich, Ulrich Kalmbach, Michel G. Plancon
  • Publication number: 20080186807
    Abstract: A method of controlling a portable electronic device includes receiving a create-new-calendar-event command for storage and display of a calendar event in a calendar view, providing a create-new-calendar-event graphical user interface in response to the receiving the create-new-calendar-event command, receiving scheduling details of the calendar event, and providing a prompt to edit the calendar event on or after a start time of the calendar event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Rohit Rocky JAIN, Darrell R. May
  • Publication number: 20080175104
    Abstract: A flexible electronic calendar allows the integration of both items that have a specific time (e.g., appointments) and items that do not have a specific time (e.g., tasks) to be displayed within the context of the electronic calendar view, thereby allowing users to organize tasks in the context of scheduled appointments. An electronic calendar view is displayed. An appointment having a specific time is displayed within the electronic calendar view. Additionally, a task is displayed within the context of the electronic calendar view without setting a specific time for the task. The task is displayed at a user-specified location within the electronic calendar view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: DOREEN GRIEB, TODD HAUGEN, MELINDA NASCIMBENI, JOHN E. KNAPP
  • Publication number: 20080175103
    Abstract: A content display method is disclosed. The content display method includes the steps of: accepting an instruction input to create a target calendar; extracting a content that indication information has to be displayed in an elapsed period having already passed and a content that indication information has to be displayed in a non-elapsed period to pass from now on in the target calendar based on the instruction input accepted through the accepting step; and arranging the indication information of each of the contents extracted in the extracting step in a corresponding date in a target calendar and displaying the target calendar on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Yoichiro Sako, Itaru Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7397731
    Abstract: A perpetual day reminder calendar consisting of display stand, date indicating cubes, day indicating plates and month indicating plates uniquely styled for ease of operation and clarity of information. The displaying of the current day is accomplished by the use of indica placed on both sides of day indicating plates, the current date is accomplished by the use of indica placed on the faces of date indicating cubes, and the current month of the year is accomplished by the use of indica placed on both sides of month indicating plates. The calendar's functional components are presented and held securely by use of a display stand. The display stand also offers at least one surface for information or advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Inventors: James Allen Scurlock, John Lorne Scurlock
  • Publication number: 20080151699
    Abstract: A display mechanism is described, driven by the hour wheel of a mechanical or quartz horological movement, the hour wheel driving a cam controlling a rack turning about an axis and arranged in engagement with a pinion, secured to an hour hand, the cam having a configuration allowing different spaces or angles between the hours to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Ramon GIL, Jean-Claude QUENET
  • Publication number: 20080151698
    Abstract: The display device, which is arranged to display the minutes and hours, comprises two cams driven separately from the cannon pinion and the hour wheel of a horological movement, a lever held in the idle position by a spring being actuated manually on demand by means of a push button placed outside the corresponding timepiece, so as to make a rack turn on its axis until the moment when a finger of each rack abuts on its respective cam, the rack during its rotation driving a pinion carrying hands indicating the minutes and the hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Ramon GIL, Jean-Claude QUENET
  • Publication number: 20080144443
    Abstract: A global timepiece includes a transparent disk, which is arranged overhead the face of the timepiece, which has a New Day Line extending radially from the center outwardly to an indice indicating midnight. The transparent disk is operationally connected to a rotatable shaft, or other drive mechanism, by which it is moving the transparent disk 360° in a clockwise direction within 24 hours. The disk further includes an International Date Line indicia and time zone indicia represented by cities, or areas, or marks, representing a time zone geographically located within each corresponding time zone. Two windows for the indication of two successive dates are cut into the face. These windows are aligned astride in the New Day Line. A wheel is arranged beneath these windows and moves counterclockwise and indicates, on its circumferential top area, the relevant dates. By this wheel, the timepiece shows two successive dates in the windows and which world locations are in which date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventor: Keith Herbert
  • Patent number: 7385875
    Abstract: A hand-held mobile electronic device that includes a controller, a display, a user input device, a storage, and a rigid case dimensioned to be held in a hand of a user, the case housing the controller, the display, the user input device and the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Research in Motion Limited
    Inventors: Darrell May, David P. Yach, Andrew D. Bocking
  • Patent number: 7382693
    Abstract: The invention relates to an instantaneous mechanism for controlling the date indicator (24) of a timepiece movement. It comprises: a 24-hour wheel (10) pierced with a first cutout (12b), a date driving wheel (16) mounted to rotate freely on the 24-hour wheel (10), coaxial therewith and having a pin (18) which fits into the cutout and a tooth (20) which collaborates with the indicator (24) to cause it to move on step by step each day at around midnight, and a spring balance (26, 32) collaborating with the pin (18). These components are shaped, sized and arranged in such a way that, at around midnight, the balance (26) escapes from the pin (18) and returns abruptly to its rest position, throwing forward the pin (18) and the driving wheel (16) whose tooth (20) strikes the date indicator (24) to cause it to move on by one step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Zenith International S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Charpier
  • Patent number: 7366059
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device for a wristwatch comprising a luminescent surface for illuminating the background of a display element consisting of one or more alphanumeric characters. The display device comprises a window in an opaque watch face in which these characters can be displayed. The luminescent surface covers at least one partial area of a supporting surface situated behind said window. The alphanumeric characters of the display element have an opaque material and are located between the watch face and the luminescent surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Eterna AG Uhrenfabrik
    Inventor: Ernst Seyr
  • Publication number: 20080056071
    Abstract: A method and system for providing an aggregate view of information that a user may need is provided. A desktop assistant system collects information items that a user may need such as scheduling information and recently received messages. The desktop assistant system may also identify documents that the user may need and contacts with whom the user may need to communicate based on analysis of the collected scheduling information and the collected messages. The desktop assistant system then displays indications of the collected scheduling information, the collected messages, the identified documents, and the identified contacts so that the user has an integrated view of the needed information items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edwin R. Burtner, Thomas V. Gruver
  • Publication number: 20080049557
    Abstract: A common drive device for date/am/pm display to change transmission ratio of driven mechanism with 24H as a stepping cycle found with the date display in window or indicator hand of the conventional timepiece into that with 12H as a stepping cycle; 00:00 at midnight and 12:00 at noon being usually set as the stepping timings for the 12H stepping cycle; or alternatively, 6:00 am and 6:00 pm, or any other pairs that are 12 hours separated from each other may be selected as required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Patent number: 7333397
    Abstract: A calendar corrector is disclosed for arrangement in a movement of a watchmaking part provided with a calendar display and, for example, a thirty-one wheel which goes round in thirty-one days. In one implementation, the corrector comprises a manual control, enabling information relating to the fact that the current month comprises less than thirty-one days to be introduced, and programming means coupled to the thirty-one wheel, responding to the information introduced by the control, such that the display can be corrected automatically at the end of the current month.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier S.A.
    Inventor: Frédéric Crettex
  • Publication number: 20080040072
    Abstract: A calendar for an electronic device includes suitable programming so that the calendar is displayed on two or more electronic devices, such as computers. Programming of the calendar is operable so that when someone at one of the electronic devices alters a calendar item, an animation corresponding to such alteration is displayed on the calendar displayed at another one of the electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: John Anderson
  • Publication number: 20080037373
    Abstract: A perpetual day reminder calendar consisting of display stand, date indicating cubes, day indicating plates and month indicating plates uniquely styled for ease of operation and clarity of information. The displaying of the current day is accomplished by the use of indica placed on both sides of day indicating plates, the current date is accomplished by the use of indica placed on the faces of date indicating cubes, and the current month of the year is accomplished by the use of indica placed on both sides of month indicating plates. The calendar's functional components are presented and held securely by use of a display stand. The display stand also offers at least one surface for information or advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: James Allen Scurlock, John Lorne Scurlock
  • Patent number: 7307917
    Abstract: The invention concerns a lunar month display mechanism, for a lunisolar calendar mechanism. The mechanism includes concentrically a plate, which determines the position of the additional month in the bissextile years. The plate is provided with a hand associated with a scale of twelve months and carries a planetary wheel permanently braked by a restraining device. The drive wheel, driven over one twelfth of a revolution at each new moon, meshes with the planetary wheel and moves the plate and hand forward. At the start of a bissextile month, the stop fingerforces the wheel to rotate overcoming the force of the restraining device while the drive wheel is rotating, such that the hand remains close to the number of the preceding month. The position of the stop finger is determined by a year cam. This mechanism can be used in particular in a Chinese calendar display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd.
    Inventors: Frédéric Meylan, Alain Vuilleumier
  • Patent number: 7301854
    Abstract: The annual calendar mechanism comprises a drive wheel set (1) fitted with a first finger (2) driving a date disc (4) through one step once a day and a second finger (5) driving a plate (6) secured to an annual wheel (7) arranged coaxially to the date ring at the end of the months of less than thirty one days. An intermediate wheel (8) connects the annual wheel (7) to the date ring (4) at the end of each month. The annual wheel (7) comprises twice as many teeth (30) as there are months in a year and the intermediate wheel (8) comprises a first wheel (40) meshed with the annual wheel (7) and a second wheel (50) fixed to the first wheel, said second wheel being meshed, at the end of each month, with a snug (60) arranged inside the date ring (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Christian Ruefenacht
  • Patent number: 7280437
    Abstract: A timepiece, includes a Chinese calendar display device indicating lunar date and lunar month, taking account of bissextile months, and: a control lever actuated each day by a drive wheel of the timepiece movement; a lunar month indicator associated with a month star-wheel; a lunar date indicator associated with a date wheel set including a date wheel moved forward one step each day by the control lever, a lunar month length indicator coupled to a selector, having two positions manually controlled and alternately defining two different stop positions for the lever, respectively corresponding to a long month and to a short month, the control lever moves the date wheel forward one extra step at the end of short months; and a month indicator coupled to a bissextile month selector, having two positions manually controlled and that moves the month star—wheel back one step at the start of bissextile months.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Frédéric Piguet S.A.
    Inventor: Marco Rochat
  • Patent number: 7269102
    Abstract: To realize a small-sized analog multifunction timepiece by adopting a fan shape moving hand mechanism which does not use a hairspring. A multifunction timepiece of the invention is provided with a day display mechanism for operating a small hand moving in a fan shape. The day display mechanism is provided with a day indicator driving wheel, a day jumper, a small day wheel for displaying calendar information, a hammer constituted to rotate based on rotation of a day indicator transmission wheel, and a day return spring for exerting a rotational force to the small day wheel. By bringing a cam contact portion of the hammer to a transmission cam outer periphery portion and exerting an elastic force to a return cam outer shape portion by a return spring portion of the day return spring, the small day wheel is constituted to be exerted with a rotational force in a constant direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Hirano, Mamoru Watanabe, Takeshi Tokoro
  • Patent number: 7269101
    Abstract: To realize an analog multifunction timepiece which is small sized and does not need much time period in operation of fabricating and integrating a part by adopting a fan shape moving hand mechanism without using a hairspring. A movement of a multifunction timepiece is provided with a calendar information display mechanism. The calendar information display mechanism is provided with a transmission wheel having a transmission cam portion, a display wheel constituted to rotate based on rotation of the transmission wheel and for displaying calendar information, a first hammer rotatably provided by being brought into contact with a transmission cam portion, and a second hammer rotatably provided in corporation with the display wheel. The first hammer includes a cam contact portion and an operating wheel portion. The second hammer is constituted to always receive a force of rotating in a constant direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Watanabe, Takeshi Tokoro, Kei Hirano
  • Patent number: 7254911
    Abstract: A multi-functional calendar structure includes a calendar made up of a set of upper and lower layers wherein the upper layer has week elements, day elements, and month elements respectively marked at the front face thereon, and a plurality of empty elements for recording important occasions or favorable/forbidden events in the month sequentially arranged at the bottom of the front face thereon. Each of the day and empty elements is provided with a set of top and bottom dotted tearing lines, a set of transversely U-shaped left and right cut areas disposed at both adjacent edges of the top/bottom dotted tearing lines thereof, an oblique cut opening defining the lower section of the left cut area thereof, and an adhesive portion properly coated at the reverse face thereon and limited within the left/right cut areas thereof. The lower layer is also provided with identical day and empty elements in corresponding positions relative to that of the upper layer thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Inventor: Li Jung Lin
  • Patent number: 7242640
    Abstract: This mechanism comprises a date runner, a months satellite with five teeth on a pitch for twelve, secured to the date runner, a fixed planetary toothset and a drive member for driving the date runner comprising two drive fingers, the first intersecting the path of the toothset of the date runner, the second intersecting the path of the toothset of the months satellite. The latter is connected to the planetary toothset by a second satellite secured to it and the number of teeth of which is equal to a multiple of twelve, the number of teeth of the planetary toothset being chosen so that one of the five teeth of the months satellite is aligned with the axes of the satellites, of the drive member and of the date runner on the 30th of each month comprising less than 31 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Rolex S.A.
    Inventor: Christian Fleury
  • Publication number: 20070153635
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a controller having an integrated circuit operable in at least a first and second mode, and a dial having a window through which at least one indicator is visible, wherein the electronic device comprises a mode indicator positioned on an actuation mechanism side of the dial, wherein the mode indicator has at least a first indicator and a second indicator each respectively representative of one of the at least two modes within which the electronic device is operable; a gearing assembly comprising one or more wheels, being meshingly coupled to the mode indicator so that the rotation of the one or more wheels causes the rotation of the mode indicator; an actuation mechanism, rotateably coupled to the at least one or more wheels of the gearing assembly, wherein the rotation of the actuation mechanism causes the rotation of the mode indicator; wherein the integrated circuit controls the actuation of the actuation mechanism so as to initiate the rotation of the mode indicator; and ac
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Wolfgang Burkhardt, Gerhard Stotz, Hans Schnell, Martin Dietrich, Ulrich Kalmbach, Michel G. Plancon
  • Publication number: 20070147176
    Abstract: The invention concerns a lunar month display mechanism, for a lunisolar calendar mechanism. The mechanism includes concentrically a plate, which determines the position of the additional month in the bissextile years. The plate is provided with a hand associated with a scale of twelve months and carries a planetary wheel permanently braked by a restraining device. The drive wheel, driven over one twelfth of a revolution at each new moon, meshes with the planetary wheel and moves the plate and hand forward. At the start of a bissextile month, the stop finger forces the wheel to rotate overcoming the force of the restraining device while the drive wheel is rotating, such that the hand remains close to the number of the preceding month. The position of the stop finger is determined by a year cam. This mechanism can be used in particular in a Chinese calendar display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: THE SWATCH GROUP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LTD
    Inventors: Frederic Meylan, Alain Vuilleumier
  • Patent number: 7221624
    Abstract: A time display device (“TDD”)—equally adaptable to watches, clocks, computers, phones, and vehicles—indicates the current hour of the day by displaying a color that refers an observer to the disclosed color-to-hour matrix, thereby eliminating the traditional hour hand or digit altogether. Alternately adaptable to months, the system may be used with both mechanical and electronic displays. Various disclosed minute indicators provide minute indication by shape, complexity, company logo, air bubbles, or other novel methods. Environmental sensors allow switching between functions. TDD appearance is user-customizable via Internet. Birthstones, gemstones, and precious metals are alternately used as stand-alone time indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Inventor: Shelton E. Harrison, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7215602
    Abstract: To realize an analog multifunction timepiece capable of realizing plural movement layouts including a fan shape moving hand train wheel by only changing positions of integrating parts without changing dimensions and shapes of the parts of movements. A movement of a multifunction timepiece is provided with a first train wheel rotational center, a second train wheel rotational center, a third train wheel rotational center and a fourth train wheel rotational center. Calendar information can be displayed by a small hand moving to rotate centering on the first train wheel rotational center and the second train wheel rotational center. Calendar information can be displayed by a small hand moving in a fan shape centering on the third train wheel rotational center and the fourth train wheel rotational center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Hirano, Mamoru Watanabe, Takeshi Tokoro
  • Patent number: 7213140
    Abstract: According to the claimed invention, a computer is disclosed. The computer comprises a first memory for storing a BIOS, a clock for tracking time, a second memory for storing the time value of the clock and an alarm setting based upon a predetermined time selected by a user, a communication management circuit for controlling peripheral memory buses, and a power supply for providing electrical power to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Micro-Star Int'l Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li-Chyn Wang
  • Patent number: 7200071
    Abstract: Disclosed is a personal organization tool comprising an indicator and an analog display divided into areas representing days of the week to help people organize themselves and remind them of various events or activities. The tool may be used in co-operation with an apparatus for providing information. The tool is particularly useful for people with short-term memory loss who often experience difficulty in keeping track of when they are supposed to do something.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Inventor: A. Daniel Brophy
  • Patent number: 7184369
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a timepiece and a mechanism to be used with the timepiece for indicating the date and the day of the present time. In one embodiment, a timepiece may include a dial, indications of seven days of a week inscribed on the dial, and an aperture pierced through the dial and being sized to allow seven dates of a month to appear adjacent the indications on the dial. A mechanism for indicating the date and the day may include a date indicator bearing a series of dates from 1 to 31, a first member configured to cause the date indicator to move by seven days on each Sunday at about midnight, a date corrector bearing a series of dates from 1 to 6 and arranged in such a way that the date corrector can be partially superposed on the date indicator, and a second member configured to cause the date corrector to move in such a way that, at the end of a month having less than 31 days, the date corrector automatically hides incorrect dates and replaces them with its own dates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier S.A.
    Inventor: Frédéric Crettex