Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Calendar mechanism and analog timepiece equipped with same mechanism
- Patent Title (中): 日历机构和模拟钟表配备相同的机构
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Application No.: US12925376Application Date: 2010-10-20
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Publication No.: US08279718B2Publication Date: 2012-10-02
- Inventor: Kei Hirano
- Applicant: Kei Hirano
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
- Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Adams & Wilks
- Priority: JP2009-242718 20091021
- Main IPC: G04B19/24
- IPC: G04B19/24

Abstract:
To provide a calendar mechanism wherein the building-in property of a second date indicator is improved, and an analog timepiece equipped therewith. A calendar mechanism of an analog timepiece includes a first date indicator which includes a first date character indication portion, a first date indicator gear portion, and an endless ring-shaped drive cam portion; a drive cam lever which includes an operating lever portion including a first fan-shaped gear portion, wherein a driven lever portion is spring loaded in order to become a cam follower, and the operating lever portion is pivoted in accordance with the driven lever portion abutting against the drive cam portion; a second date indicator which, being rotatable, includes a second date character indication portion and a second fan-shaped gear portion meshing with the first fan-shaped gear portion; and a positioning/locking portion. In a case in which the tens column of the date is 0, one portion of the drive cam lever abuts against the positioning/locking portion, causing the cam follower of the driven lever portion to remain in a condition out of contact with an invalid cam face portion of the cam face of the drive cam portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110090767A1 Calendar mechanism and analog timepiece equipped with same mechanism Public/Granted day:2011-04-21
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