By Locking The Moving Weight [g04b 5/24b] Patents (Class 968/67)
  • Patent number: 12353171
    Abstract: Disclosed is a timepiece including a case, a movement and a vibration-generating device intended to produce a sound, the latter two accommodated in the case, a device for amplifying the vibrations from the vibration-generating device, and a membrane receiving the amplified vibrations and generating a sound to outside the timepiece. The vibration-amplifying device includes a lever pivotally mounted on a support in a pivoting plane non-parallel to the plane of the membrane and actuated by a transmission member cooperating with the vibration-generating device to transmit the vibrations to the lever, the lever being integral with the membrane at least translationally in the pivoting plane so a movement of the transmission member, generated by vibration of the transmission member linked to the vibration-generating device and transmitted to the membrane by way of the lever actuated by the transmission member, generates an amplified movement of the membrane for an amplified sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE
    Inventors: Quentin Benoist, Sylvain Geiser, Eric Le Gall, Alessandro Vandini