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US 12,006,556 B2Granted
Method for heat treating a horological component
AssigneeRolex SA
InventorOlivier Perrinjaquet
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Abstract
A method for heat treating a horological component includes the following steps: heating of the component by irradiation, using a laser beam, of at least 80% or at least 90% of the projected surface of the component parallel to the direction of the laser beam, and cooling of the component in a gas stream.
Claims20
A method for heat treating a horological component, the method comprising the following steps:
- heating the component by irradiation using a laser beam, wherein at a given instant, the laser beam irradiates at least 80% of a projected surface of the component parallel to a direction of the beam,
- stopping irradiation of the entire component, then
- cooling the entire component in a gas stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.