G04C 13/00
Driving mechanisms for clocks by primary clocks
G04C13/00 (Driving mechanisms for clocks by primary clocks) appears on 166 US grants and 36 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G04C- Granted patents
- 166
- Published applications
- 36
- Assignees
- 69
- Inventors
- 242
- Latest grant
- 24 Mar 2026
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| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sympathetic timepiece assembly24 Mar 2026US 12,585,224 B2Montres Breguet S. A.
- Sympathetic timepiece assembly17 Feb 2026US 12,554,226 B2Montres Breguet S. A.
- Sympathetic timepiece assembly23 Sep 2025US 12,422,781 B2Montres Breguet S. A.
- Delay time detection circuit, stamping information generation device, and delay time detection method29 Oct 2024US 12,130,653 B2NEC Platforms, Ltd.
- Electronic watch, motor control circuit, and method for controlling electronic watch13 Feb 2024US 11,899,405 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Tower clock and procedure for its operation2 Apr 2026US 2026/0093211 A1
- Timepiece, display control method, and storage medium11 Sep 2025US 2025/0284246 A1Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Sympathetic timepiece assembly5 Oct 2023US 2023/0315023 A1Montres Breguet S. A.
- Sympathetic timepiece assembly14 Sep 2023US 2023/0288874 A1Montres Breguet S. A.
- Sympathetic timepiece assembly7 Sep 2023US 2023/0280697 A1Montres Breguet S. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Bipolar stepping motor rotor with drive pinion and method of manufacture95US 4,700,091 ATimex Corporation · 1987
- Residential time reference system65US 5,334,975 A1994
- Multiphase motor with facially magnetized rotor having N/2 pairs of poles per face59US 4,680,494 A1987
- Clock diagnostics56US 7,230,884 B2The Sapling Company, Inc. · 2007
- Permanent magnet rotor assembly for electro-mechanical transducer40US 4,206,379 ACitizen Watch Co., Ltd. · 1980