IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,197,172
Granted Patent B2
US 12,197,172 · App. 17/889,437 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Watch

Inventors: Toshinori Nakazawa (Matsumoto, JP); Hironori Hasei (Azumino, JP)
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
G04B19/046G04C10/04
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Patent No.
US 12,197,172
App. No.
17/889,437
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A watch includes an hour hand and a minute hand, a dial including a plurality of time graduations indicating time by being pointed by the hour hand and the minute hand, and a dial plate including a graduation for predetermined information different from the time, and supported by a rotary shaft, wherein in plan view from a normal direction of the dial, the rotary shaft overlaps with a pointing graduation, which is one of the time graduations, and the predetermined information is indicated by the graduation of the dial plate in an extension direction of the pointing graduation.

Claims (28)

1. A watch comprising:

an hour hand and a minute hand;

a dial including a plurality of time graduations indicating time by being pointed by the hour hand and the minute hand; and

a dial plate supported by a rotary shaft, the dial plate including graduations indicating predetermined information different from the time, wherein

in plan view from a normal direction of the dial, the rotary shaft overlaps with a pointing graduation that is one of the time graduations, and

the predetermined information is indicated by the graduation, of the dial plate, located in an extension direction of the pointing graduation.

2. The watch according to claim 1 , wherein

the pointing graduation is provided between the dial and the dial plate, and

the dial plate is transmissive.

3. The watch according to claim 1 , wherein

the rotary shaft is provided so as to penetrate through the pointing graduation,

the dial plate has a fan shape in plan view, and

the rotary shaft is provided in a vicinity of a center of the fan shape.

4. The watch according to claim 1 , wherein

the dial plate is provided between the dial and the pointing graduation.

5. The watch according to claim 4 , wherein

the time graduations are fixed to the dial by first and second legs, and

an interval between the first and second legs of the pointing graduation is shorter than intervals between the first and second legs of the time graduations other than the pointing graduation.

6. The watch according to claim 1 , wherein

the dial has an opening portion,

the dial plate is provided below the dial, and

the graduation of the dial plate is exposed from the opening portion.

7. The watch according to claim 1 , wherein

in plan view, the pointing graduation has a rectangular shape, and

the time graduations other than the pointing graduation also have a shape similar to the shape of the pointing graduation.

8. The watch according to claim 1 , wherein

the predetermined information is power reserve information, and

the graduation of the dial plate is an graduation indicating drivable time.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 17, 2022
From: NAKAZAWA, TOSHINORI; HASEI, HIRONORI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060827/0813 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-133204 · Aug 18, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230057778A1 · Feb 23, 2023
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