With Calendar Indicator Patents (Class 368/28)
  • Patent number: 5537369
    Abstract: A desk calendar and clock combination, including: a table clock having a coupling groove at front side near the bottom; a supporting plate having a longitudinal series of through holes alinged along one side and two outward coupling flanges symmetrically disposed at two opposite ends for coupling to the coupling groove on the table clock alternatively; and a calendar consisting of a stack of loose leaves for showing the months, weeks, and days of two continuous years on two opposite pages of each loose leaf, and having a series of longitudinally spaced binding holes respectively fastened to the through holes on the supporting plate by a respective fastening element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Inventor: Lien M. C. Wu
  • Patent number: 5530684
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a calendar function such that it is possible to display one or more schedules. The electronic device includes an input device which receives data representing starting and ending times. This data is displayed in graphic format to illustrate the starting and ending times of the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiro Kataoka, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi, Yasuharu Tanaka, Yoshihiro Shintaku, Kiyoshi Matsuo, Yasuo Wada
  • Patent number: 5515344
    Abstract: A menstrual cycle meter which comprises a casing microprocessor-based electronic circuitry including calendar keeping means and calculating means, a plurality of buttons provided on the casing to enable the microprocessor to receive user-input commands and/or data including the first day of at least the last two menstrual cycles of a user, and a display (12) provided on the casing and under the control of the microprocessor to display indication relating to the calculated fertile and infertile periods of the current menstrual cycle according to the stored input data. The display includes visual indicating means (58 & 59) for indicating the expected sex of a baby that is likely to be conceived in a particular day during the fertile period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Wellgain Precision Products Ltd.
    Inventor: Tai W. Ng
  • Patent number: 5473580
    Abstract: A chronograph watch comprises time keeping first indicators (H, M, S1) used for displaying the time of day and chronograph second indicators (h, m, S2) used for displaying an interval of time in response to a control arrangement (P1, P2) with the aid of which the chronograph can be started, stopped and reset to zero. The chronograph watch includes instantaneous conversion means for at least one of the second indicators (here the seconds counter S2) into an indicator of another function, for example an indication of the date (Q), when the chronograph is not in use. In such example there is also provided the transformation of the minutes counter (m) into a four-year cycle indicator (BISS) and the hours counter (h) into a months indicator (Mo).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: ETA SA Fabrique d'Ebauches
    Inventors: Beat Gilomen, Clement Meyrat
  • Patent number: 5469410
    Abstract: A watch comprising several hands driven independently of each other by several motors, and comprising a date function whereby the date is displayed on two scales, the first for the tens and the second for the units. Specific design features also allow the month, leap year and phases of the moon to be displayed. In a specific embodiment, the hands may be replaced by graduated discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Eta Sa Fabriques d'Ebauches
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Berney
  • Patent number: 5457663
    Abstract: An astronomical time clock has a clock face divided into twelve segments representing the months of the year and a centrally positioned light which represents the sun. A globe representing the Earth rotates by a drive means around the light and is positioned in the segment representing the current month. The time of the day may be displayed by conventional clock hands or a digital display which is made clearly visible only in the segment corresponding to the current month. In a preferred embodiment, the globe rotates on its axis representing night and day and may be provided with tilt representing the seasons of the year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Inventor: Stephen G. Mejaski
  • Patent number: 5448532
    Abstract: An electronic world clock device indicates a time in connection with a designated region based on a time difference in a reference region to be stored, and comprises clock means for counting a present time in a specified home region and memory means for storing various regions and names of the countries and the time differences corresponding to said various regions in the world, and said designated region and the name of the country where said designated region belongs are stored at the same time, so that said designated region as well as the name of the corresponding country and/or a time difference between two different regions in the world are indicated at the same time on the basis of the time difference in said reference region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiro Kataoka, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi, Yasuharu Tanaka, Yoshihiro Shintaku
  • Patent number: 5432759
    Abstract: The annual calendar mechanism includes a calendar driving wheel (18) provided with a finger (17) adapted to drive a date wheel (19) through one step at the end of each month. An annual wheel (25), driven through two steps once per month by a long tooth (23) borne by an intermediate wheel (21), itself meshing with the date wheel (19), includes a plate (27) bearing five teeth (28). If one of these five teeth, corresponding to one of the months of less than thirty-one days, comes into the path of finger (17), the annual wheel, from being driven, becomes driving and drives the date wheel through an additional step via the intermediate wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.
    Inventor: Frank Vaucher
  • Patent number: 5422862
    Abstract: A set of I/O indexed configuration registers are provided within a real time clock circuit of a computer system to allow the storage of the day, month and century for an alarm activation event. The I/O indexed configuration registers that store the alarm year, the alarm month, and the alarm day information are shadowed with respect to the I/O indexed configuration registers that store the current year, month, and day information for the real time clock circuit. An additional configuration register mapped within the configuration space of the computer system is provided that stores a bit that controls whether the configuration registers for the current year, month, and day will be accessed during an I/O cycle to a predetermined address of the indexed configuration registers, or whether the configuration registers for the alarm year, alarm month, and alarm day will be accessed during an I/O cycle to the predetermined address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael T. Wisor
  • Patent number: 5384754
    Abstract: An electronic watch having an electronic circuit to perform advanced features that is able to distinguish between a first case in which an access code for entry into a programming mode has been correctly entered and the programming operation has been correctly done, from a second case in which the access code has not been correctly entered and/or the programming has not been done correctly. Access to a programming mode of a perpetual calendar feature built into the watch is controlled by requiring at least one manipulation of a time-setting rod in view of its attribution to at least one function other than the functions of correction of the date and day, and to control the watch in the manner of an ordinary watch in the second case and to attribute, in this case to at least one manipulation of the rod, the functions of correction of date and day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Montres Rolex S.A.
    Inventor: Rene Besson
  • Patent number: 5379272
    Abstract: A first mechanism (2, 5, 8, 18, 20) of the calendar drives a date indicator, bearing numbers 1 to 30, by one one-day step at the end of each day, off a rotary part (1) of an analog timepiece movement. A second mechanism (60, 62) causes the date indicator, in cooperation with the first mechanism, to move forward from the 29th to the 1st of the following month at the end of the even months. A third mechanism (75, 79, 95, 97) inhibits the action of the second mechanism at the end of the embolismic (or abundant) years whereby at the twelfth and final month of these years the date indicator displays 30 before proceeding to the 1st. The calendar is perpetual, and a date-corrector (11) and a month-corrector (54) enable the calendar to be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Michel Parmigiani
  • Patent number: 5339293
    Abstract: A dual center wheel (38), provided with a plurality of dual center wheels (36) for display of times in different time zones, driven on a hands wheel for displaying the current time, and a dual adjustment member (49) adjusted by an external adjustment member (9), is formed from a gear (38a) and a pair of planetary wheels (44, 45) supported on the gear (38a). The dual center wheel (38) is also provided with a dual wheel (43), for which the rotation is regulated by means of a jumper spring, which engages one of the planetary wheels (44), and with a dual hour wheel (46) which engages the other planetary wheel (45) rotating on the same shaft as the dual wheel (43). The dual hour wheel ( 46 ), of which rotanional speed is reduced as a result of the rotation of the dual center wheel (38), makes one turn of an integer fraction of a rotation for a one pitch rotation of the dual wheel ( 43 ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kamiyama, Takeo Mutou, Takashi Osa
  • Patent number: 5327401
    Abstract: The wristwatch displays the date through a window in the dial. To achieve this, the watch comprises a rotatable disc (13) bearing a first series of numbers corresponding to some of the days of the month, and a second series of numbers corresponding to the remaining days, said series being arranged in two concentric circles. To ensure that the date numbers pass the hatch in chronological order, the disc is rotatably driven by a motor (70) combined with an endless screw (71), and translatably driven by a motor (72) combined with an endless screw (73) to pivot a circle sector (74) about a spindle (75). Both said motors are controlled by an electronic circuit (76).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Montres Rolex S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Besson, Frank G. Vernay
  • Patent number: 5317699
    Abstract: A schedule management system has a dispersive management unit. A data communication unit provides for communicating between a common schedule data storage memory units and for updating the schedule data which is so commonly stored. Data storage is based on the names of the storage unit and the user's, which names are transmitted from the schedule data storage unit. The schedule data storage unit may be updated from the storage unit management table in order to transmit the updated information to the other schedule data storage units. Therefore, the adjustment of the schedule can be effectively realized even among the remote users so that every one will be aware of the update data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Sugita, Yuji Izuwa
  • Patent number: 5317546
    Abstract: A Method and apparatus for identifying events for making changes to a meter register configuration. In the one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of storing event data, including event dates, in a meter register memory, the event data being stored in a floating date format or in a fixed date format, and processing the event data to determine whether a current date corresponds to an event date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Balch, Marjorie J. Mancuso, Susan D. Dastous
  • Patent number: 5305289
    Abstract: The device for implementing the method for the automatic initialisation of the date display of a perpetual calendar electronic watch comprising a face fitted with a window and a date disk permits, every time the watch stops, at the moment the electronic circuit is reconnected, the automatic identification of the date appearing in the window, by optically analysing a code attributed to this date and by memorizing this data by means of the electronic circuit. This optical device (10) comprises a source (11) emitting a beam of light (12), reflective surfaces (13) fixed onto the date disk (15) and a receiver (14). The beam (16) reflected by a surface (13) is intercepted by the receiver (14) which supplies a signal to the electronic circuit (17) which controls an electronic motor (18) driving the disk (15) by a system of reduction gears (19, 20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Montres Rolex S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Besson, Claude-Eric Leuenberger
  • Patent number: 5299177
    Abstract: An analog timepiece has an hour and a minute hand which may show either the time in a normal manner or information other than the time. When the timepiece is in its normal time display mode, a display function may be activated to display information other than the time by means of external command means. When this function is activated, the hands are superimposed and selectively occupy together the same angular position representative of the information apart from an indication of the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: ETA SA Fabriques d'Ebauches
    Inventor: Daniel Koch
  • Patent number: 5282179
    Abstract: This chronograph-watch includes, superposed over one another and in the following order, a motor module (19), a chronograph module (27) and a dial (12). The motor module comprises a first date ring (17). The chronograph module includes a second date ring (28) located immediately under the dial and bearing indications (14) concerning the date which appear through an opening (13). The second ring (28) is controlled by the first ring (17), through a drive chain (32, 33, 34, 36) assembled in the chronograph module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Eta SA Fabriques d'Ebauches
    Inventor: Cyril Vuilleumier
  • Patent number: 5274614
    Abstract: A high reliable multi-function analog electronic timepiece which has plurality of ultrasonic motors, or has an ultrasonic motor and a motor.A first ultrasonic motor is provided as a driving source for driving a time indicating mechanism. The control circuit controls supplying timing of driving pulses of the first ultrasonic motor for driving a time indicating mechanism and driving pulses of the second ultrasonic motor for driving the calendar indicating mechanism. The control circuit inputs a driving pulse command signal to a piezoelectric vibrator driving circuit for providing driving pulses whose generating timing is controlled to the first ultrasonic motor.The calendar indicating mechanism and the time indicating mechanism are operated by the operation of the second ultrasonic motor and the first ultrasonic motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5239522
    Abstract: The invention relates to a setting method of the perpetual calendar of a chronograph watch having an analogic display and comprising a watch case, a time setting stem and two chronograph pushers. The display comprises a dial provided with an hour and a minute graduation as well as a centered chronograph hand and eccentric chronograph counters for the minutes and the hours each presenting a graduation, a corresponding hand and a date display. The watch comprises at least a driving motor for these hands and an electronic circuit provided with a processor controlled by a quartz time base. The setting of the perpetual calendar, number of the years within a cycle of four years, number of the months of the year, and indication of the date is controlled by the time setting stem and the two chronograph pushers. During the setting process, one displays the value of each of the parameters to be set successively by one of the hands and of the corresponding graduation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Complications SA
    Inventor: John Corlet
  • Patent number: 5235562
    Abstract: A timepiece including automatic backward moving display means. Such invention includes: a horometric movement, an intermediate wheel (22) driven by the movement and including driving gear teeth (26a-26y), a display system (16) for information such as the date, at least one oscillating element (30) coupled to the display system (16) and including driven gear teeth (32) in mesh with the driving gear teeth (26a-26y) of the intermediate wheel (22), return means (34) for the oscillating element (30), declutching means (40, 40a) to enable the oscillating element (30) to effect a free backward motion, and an abutment (B) associated with a counter-abutment (CB) in order to limit the backward movement of the oscillating element (30), this invention being characterized in that the counter-abutment (CB) is formed by one (26a) of the driving gear teeth (26a-26y) of the intermediate wheel (22) which, during driving, normally meshes with the driven teeth (32) of the oscillating element (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.
    Inventor: Frank Vaucher
  • Patent number: 5222052
    Abstract: The day-name associated with any date under the Gregorian Calendar is determined by a process which first identifies, from tabulated data correlated to seven day-name categories, the day-name assigned to the first day of a centesimal year. Additional tabulated data correlates the day-name for the first day of a centesimal year to the day-name of the first day of any year within the century following the centesimal year. A third data set correlates the day-name for the first day of any particular year to the day-name for any particular month and number date within the year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Jocelyne C. Salame
    Inventor: Camille G. Salame
  • Patent number: 5220539
    Abstract: A timepiece for displaying both Biblical and conventional time wherein the dial face is provided with a twenty-four hour track adjacent to and aligned with a night watch track to provide concurrent reading of the Biblical hour and the Roman hour. A concentric one hour track is provided to permit display of minutes. A pair of sweep hands continually indicates both times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Inventor: Samuel E. McDuffee
  • Patent number: 5214622
    Abstract: An information display apparatus which accumulates arbitrary information inputted to a television receiver from the outside, superimposes the information in a memory on an ordinary video signal and displays the superimposed image on a television display in accordance with a calender timer built in the television receiver. A remote control unit is provided for inputting information to the information display apparatus from the outside. Memories are disposed in the information display apparatus and the remote control unit for accumulating arbitrary information. A calender timer is provided for serving as a reference for displaying information are also disclosed. Arbitrary information inputted from the outside can be displayed on a television display at a previously appointed date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nemoto, Kazuo Sakai, Masataka Kawauchi, Hideki Tanaka, Kihachiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Ohki, Ichiro Nakamura, Hideo Enoki
  • Patent number: 5197043
    Abstract: A clock, a calendar, and a two dimensional model of the earth viewed looking at the polar axis as the earth is rotated during a twenty-four hour period thus showing day and night, dawn and dusk. The shadow cast on the earth by the absence of the sun's rays are also shown. The changing of said shadow to show the seasons of the year is also shown as the shadow is rotated once every 365 days. The disc containing the rotating shadow has a pointer that tells the observer the month of the year and the day of the month along with the sign of the zodiac. The rotating earth map has symbols to represent the major cities of the earth and a symbol to represent the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Inventor: Verne A. Strader
  • Patent number: 5197042
    Abstract: The improved postage metering combination includes a date setting mechanism for enabling the printing of a posting date by a printing assembly. The combination includes a calendar clock in communication with a microcomputer for providing current date information to the microcomputer. A date printing mechanism is connected to the microcomputer date information to be printing by the combination or causing said date printing to be ducked. Data entry keys are provided to communicate with the microcomputer the current date information is printed by the combination, date information is ducked or the date to be printed is incremented in advance of the current date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: George M. Brookner, Jacqueline Collins, Terrence M. Doeberl
  • Patent number: 5187693
    Abstract: This device is specified for a wrist watch, comprising at least one bi-directional electric motor, at least one mechanism coupled to this motor to drive a day disk (12) and a date disk (10), and at least one electronic circuit designed to transmit control impulses to this motor. This mechanism comprises a drive wheel (11) coupled to the motor and two date fingers (14, 15) pivoting respectively on two axes (16, 17) borne by said drive wheel (11) to increment, and decrement respectively, the date disk (10). The drive wheel (11) also bears a control wheel (22) for a day star (13) designed to increment, or respectively decrement, the day disk (12) by means of said day star (13). The control wheel (22) for the day star is concentric with the drive wheel (11) and integral with the latter when it rotates in one direction or the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Montres Rolex S.A.
    Inventor: Rene Besson
  • Patent number: 5184333
    Abstract: The clock movement comprises a perpetual calendar mechanism (1-15), an equation-of-time mechanism (16-19) and a third mechanism (20-23) which is actuated by the first so as to modify the angular position of an equation-of-time cam (16) of the second mechanism, as a function of the number of days in the months. Thus this cam (16) always performs exactly one complete revolution in one year, irrespective of the number of days in the year. The movement is therefore a perpetual calendar movement and a perpetual equation-of-time movement. It also has the advantage that, after it has been stopped for an indeterminate time, the exact angular position of the equation-of-time cam (16) is automatically restored, with no possibility of error, simply by bringing the date, year, month and time back into phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventor: Michel Caspar
  • Patent number: 5177713
    Abstract: A motorized slide stick calendar has a wall mount with a series of side by side slide openings and a datum. A day slide, with longitudinally spaced days of the week indicia, a month slide with month indicia and a date slide, with longitudinally spaced numbers designating days of the month are each received in separate slide openings. A clock motor is connected to index the slides relative to the datum to display the current month, day and date at the datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Inventor: Edwin J. Doughty
  • Patent number: 5177712
    Abstract: A calendar display device for a timepiece having a spindle which selectively rotates to drive the timepiece. The display device includes a day of the week wheel selectively rotatably coupled to the spindle, and a dial overlying the day of the week wheel having a window, with the dial including indicia around the periphery of the window representative of each day of the week. The day of the week wheel includes a plurality of day of the week indicators spaced therearound along the circumference of a circle passing essentially through the center of the window so that it is the day of the week wheel is selectively rotated, the indicators sequentially appear through the window and point selectively to the indicia to indicate the actual day of the week. The dial may also include an elongated circumferential window therein with days of the month positioned on opposing sides of the window. A second wheel includes indicators thereon for pointing out the particular day of the month through the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihisa Kakizawa
  • Patent number: 5086416
    Abstract: A dial 1 provided with an hour graduation 2 cooperating with hands 3, 4, 5, intended to be driven by the hand setting of a movement on which the module can be fixed. This dial 1 comprises further a circular twenty-four hours graduation 11 cooperating simultaneously on the one hand with a hand 13 driven in rotation by a mechanism of the module at a speed of one complete revolution per twenty-four hours and on the other hand a tides disc 12 driven in rotation by the mechanism of the module at a speed of one complete turn for each moon cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Dubois & Depraz S.A.
    Inventors: Gerald Dubois, Francois Berthoud
  • Patent number: 5058085
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a microcontroller with timer functions for providing an output indicative of elapsed time from a selected start time. The timepiece includes a display panel displaying the elapsed time in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. The output time divisions are arranged so that the year and month divisions are of the same length. This allows the user who may, for example, be trying to quit smoking, to monitor his progress with personally relevant information provided by the chronometer and thereby enables the user to personally interact with the chronometer feedback in order to enhance the user's likelihood of achieving the desired goals. The chronometer includes start, stop, general display reset and individual display indicator set controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Inventor: Marvin Lawler
  • Patent number: 5058084
    Abstract: In a clock, a device for planning the sex of a child according to the time selection method exhibits differently marked display sections (3, 4 and 5), relative to a display starting position (2), for labeling the days of fertility and the days of infertility in a cycle and a limited cycle variation range. Within the display section for the days of fertility (4), clearly distinguishably marked day position fields (G and B) are provided which, for cycle lengths of 27 to 30 days, serve as an indication of the days of probability for conceiving a boy or a girl. The counting and display of the days of probability by the cycle pointer (1) occurs from the respective first day of a new menstruation. Correspondingly, the display element (1, 11) can be adjusted to the starting position (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: B-Line AG
    Inventor: Heinz Riesen
  • Patent number: 5023851
    Abstract: A method of simultaneously displaying day calendar information in first and second view ports, each of which displays it's calendar data in a different format. The information in the two simultaneously displayed view ports is functionally interrelated to provide an improved interactive user interface.The first viewport has a time structured format which displays a sequence of predesignated time slots, each of which represents a fixed period of time, such as 30 minutes. Each time slot is allocated to one display line in the viewport. If the number of time slots allocated between the beginning and end of a calendar day is greater than the number of display lines in the viewport, then the information is scrollable so that the entire day may be viewed by the operator. The first viewport also includes at least one column that is used to display a vertical busy bar adjacent to a time slot which indicates that the slot is already scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: IBM Corp.
    Inventors: Donna F. Murray, Joseph M. Pringle, Gerald C. Strope, Stephen P. Berkson
  • Patent number: 5023850
    Abstract: A novelty clock, watch, and the like for keeping time at an animal's rate, defined in terms of a multiple of human rate by dividing the average lifetime of a particular animal into the average lifetime of a human being. The multiple for dogs is seven, for example. The device comprises a housing, a source of reference frequency for producing pulses, means for producing 60 pulses per second times the multiple for the particular animal, means for accumulating time, and means for displaying time. The display is the usual clock face with the speed of the hands altered, preferably also with the data indicated as the number of days since the last "new year" in animal days. A digital display of time in human terms may be provided with an analog display of time in animal terms or, alternatively, a capability to switch from one to the other may be provided. Preferably, a variable resistor, between the frequency source and producing means allows the user to change the multiple for diferent types of animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Inventors: Rodney H. Metts, Barry D. Thomas
  • Patent number: 4991156
    Abstract: An electronic stop watch measures an elapsed time, and stores each measured elapsed time together with measurement date data. The measurement date data is also read out and displayed when the stored elapsed time is read out and displayed, so as to represent when the readout and displayed elapsed time was measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fusao Suga
  • Patent number: 4972393
    Abstract: A calendar display apparatus includes a reference signal generator, a calendar data generator, and rotational display members. The reference signal generator generates a reference signal every period of 24 hours. The calendar data generator generates year, month, date, and day data upon reception of the reference signal. The rotational display members are driven by signals from the calendar data generator so as to display a year, a month, a date, and a day. A scale corresponding to the rotational display member for displaying years is constituted by multiple circular scales. Scale marks representing years are sequentially and continuously formed on the multiple circular scales from its inner circumference to outer circumferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Sase, Takeo Muto, Teruho Keida
  • Patent number: 4956826
    Abstract: A clock circuit for driving a clock movement such as a bipolar clock contains a memory which is programmed to automatically adjust the clock movement for standard and daylight saving time adjustments. The circuit is normally powered from the AC power line but includes a battery backup and is designed to run the clock circuit uninterruptedly for its entire life without needing used initiated adjusting or actuating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Master Free Time, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Coyman, Richard Gawronski
  • Patent number: 4905212
    Abstract: A timer setting apparatus for a video tape recorder for setting the timer control data including the date data, the day data, the starting time data, the ending time data, and the input signal selecting data, so as to actuate electronic equipment such as a VTR such that the electronic equipment will properly operate at the proper time on the set date. The timer setting apparatus comprises a timer control circuit which provides timer setting information according to signals supplied thereto from a switch circuit which is operating for setting the timer and desired modes and display means which displays all of the possible choices of items to be registered for setting the timer to facilitate the timer setting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Wakahara
  • Patent number: 4866611
    Abstract: An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system in which calendar entries that have been made for the same time span independently on two different copies of the calendar can be automatically and interactively reconciled. The method permits a calendar owner to obtain a machine readable transportable copy of his calendar on a diskette, to update that copy when the master copy is not available to him because of a business trip, for example, and upon his return to automatically and interactively reconcile the updated entries that have been made to both copies so that at least one of them reflects the correct status of calendered events for that owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles M. N. Cree, Grady J. Landry, Keith J. Scully, Harinder S. Singh
  • Patent number: 4852030
    Abstract: A time-of-use meter is provided with a means for storing a plurality of identifiers that each represent a cyclic event. These cyclic events are described in such a way that a single word of storage is sufficient to represent numerous occurrences of the cyclic event over a period of many years. A microprocessor-based calendar program is provided with a means for storing a plurality of cyclic event identifiers and special event identifiers in a manner which significantly reduces the required memory storage within the microprocessor and its peripheral memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Mark L. Munday
  • Patent number: 4831605
    Abstract: An electronic stop watch measures an elapsed time, and stores each measured elapsed time together with measurement date data. The measurement date data is also read out and displayed when the stored elapsed time is read out and displayed, so as to represent when the readout and displayed elapsed time was measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fusao Suga
  • Patent number: 4775963
    Abstract: The watch has a first motor for driving a time display, a second motor for driving a numerical indicator of the day of the month, a perpetual-calendar circuit, a first transmission circuit, a non-volatile memory, a second transmission circuit, an initialization circuit and a detection circuit for generating a signal when the cell that energizes the circuit is being replaced. The calendar circuit includes day, month, and year counters. The contents of the month and year counters are transferred to the non-volatile memory by the first transmission circuit in response to periodic signals. The date on which the watch stops at the end of the cell's life is memorized by the day of the month indicating means and the non-volatile memory. Upon insertion of a new cell and in response to the detection signal, the contents of the non-volatile memory are transferred into the month and year counters by the second transmission circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: ETA SA Fabriques d'Ebauches of Granges
    Inventors: Bertrand Soltermann, Schmidli Pierre
  • Patent number: 4774697
    Abstract: In an electronic time-keeping apparatus wherein a plurality of schedule data is stored, chronologically readable, and displayed, schedule data input from a key input section is compared, under control of a read only memory, with a number of schedule data already stored in a random access memory, and edited in a time sequence of recency with a present date as a reference basis to permit the edited schedule data to be stored in this random access memory. A time count operation is performed each time a predetermined timing signal is output from a frequency dividing circuit. A detection is made as to whether or not there is a coincidence between present date data obtained by the time count operation and the edited schedule data stored in the random access memory to see if an appointed date is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumikazu Aihara
  • Patent number: 4740932
    Abstract: A desk top swing calendar is provided and consists of a support frame with clock and a calendar tablet so as to display the time and the month of the year simultaneously. In a modification a calendar month page turner and means for viewing current month with last month at the same time is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Inventors: Ernest Cephas, George Spector
  • Patent number: 4733384
    Abstract: This invention is concerned with an analogue calendar watch able to display the hour, the day of the month perpetually, and whenever required, the number of the month via the day of the month display. The watch includes a first motor driving the time display in response to a time base signal, a perpetual calendar circuit including a day counter, a month counter and a year counter and receiving a daily signal supplied by a contact, a control circuit connected to the calendar circuit, and a second motor driving the day of the month display in response to a signal from the control circuit. The display of the number of the month is achieved with a reading circuit that receives from the calendar circuit signals representative of the contents of the day and month counters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: ETA S.A. Fabriques d'Ebauches
    Inventors: Pierre-Andre Meister, Pierre Schmidli, Bruno Erni, Bertrand Soltermann
  • Patent number: 4709493
    Abstract: A device having a housing with two columns of windows and a date window adjacent the top window of one of the columns. A roll of paper is disposed within the housing, with the opposed ends of the paper fixed to separate shafts. The shafts are rotatably connected to the housing and rotation of the shaft moves the midportion of the roll of paper past the windows. An end of each shaft protrudes from the housing to permit manual rotation of the shafts, and the opposed end of one shaft is fitted with an end member. The end member has a conical nose and radially outwardly extending projections. Adjacent to the end member is a clock having a bar attached to the hour shaft for rotation therewith. The bar has a sufficient length to contact the projections of the end member, thereby causing the paper to move from one shaft toward the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Inventor: Charles E. Sapp
  • Patent number: 4708490
    Abstract: An electronic advanced date warning system including a front surface having means associated with the front surface for lighting selected date warning areas thereon and which include conventional calendar information indicia, circuit means for selectively activating and de-activating the lighting means to light at least one of the selected areas, and control and memory means for programming the circuit means and means to review the programmed dates and number of warning dates associated with each programmed date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Inventor: Amihadar Arber
  • Patent number: 4695168
    Abstract: A watch comprises a first motor (2) for driving a time display (4), a second motor (23) for driving means (20) for numerically indicating the day of the month, a perpetual-calendar circuit (30), a first transmission circuit (40), a non-volatile memory (41), a second transmission circuit (42), and a detection circuit (43) for generating a signal (S43) when an energy supply cell is being inserted to energize the circuits. The calendar circuit includes counters (31, 32, 33) generating a calendar signal (S30) representative of the date. This signal is periodically transferred to the non-volatile memory by the first transmission circuit in response to periodic signals (Sx, Sm, Sa). The date at which the watch stops at the end of the cell's life remains memorized in the non-volatile memory and in the day of the month indicating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: ETA SA Fabriques D'Ebauches
    Inventors: Pierre-Andre Meister, Pierre Schmidli, Bertrand Soltermann
  • Patent number: 4674889
    Abstract: A watch having a crown for setting the motion work and having a device, which can be driven by the hour wheel of the movement of the watch, for the automatic display of the months and the days of the month in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. In this connection, the display of the day of the month can be driven by a date wheel 13 and the display of the month by a month wheel 22 of the device. A year wheel of a year display and a decade wheel 26 of a decade display and possibly a century drive of a century display form together with the wheelwork of the month display and the day of the month display a closed coupling-less calendar wheelwork train whose date wheel 13 can be set by a correction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: IWC International Watch Co. AG
    Inventor: Kurt Klaus