Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mechanical timepiece movement with a lever escapement
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Application No.: US15373514Application Date: 2016-12-09
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Publication No.: US10222746B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Davide Sarchi , Benoit Legeret , Benoit Junod , Polychronis Nakis Karapatis
- Applicant: Montres Breguet S.A.
- Applicant Address: CH L'Abbaye
- Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
- Current Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: CH L'Abbaye
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: EP15202458 20151223
- Main IPC: G04C5/00
- IPC: G04C5/00 ; G04B15/14 ; G04B15/06 ; G04B15/12 ; G04B15/08

Abstract:
The mechanical timepiece movement includes an escapement having a pallet-lever arranged to move alternately into abutment with two banking elements in locking periods. The pallet-lever carries at least a first permanent magnet and the timepiece movement further includes a first element and a second element of high magnetic permeability and a second magnet and a third magnet respectively integral with first and second elements of high magnetic permeability and each arranged on an opposite side to a first magnet relative to the respective elements of high magnetic permeability. This magnetic system generates, in a first part of a first half vibration of any vibration of the pallet-lever, an overall force of magnetic attraction, defining a magnetic draw additional to the mechanical draw generated by the escape wheel, and, in a second part of this first half vibration, an overall force of magnetic repulsion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170185041A1 MECHANICAL TIMEPIECE MOVEMENT WITH A LEVER ESCAPEMENT Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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