Motor group for watches
AssigneeETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
InventorsRaphael Balmer, Pascal Lagorgette
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Abstract
A motor group including motor modules, each including a motor device driving a display wheel set, with a center pipe fixed on a plate, including a device for rotational guiding, about a main axis, of a display wheel set internal or external to the center pipe, this module includes an axial stop arranged to limit to a predetermined value the axial play in the direction of the main axis between the center pipe and the display wheel set, wherein a protruding surface of the center pipe or of the display wheel set, or an added axial stop, captively mounted between the center pipe and the display wheel set, or fixed to the display wheel set.
Claims11
A motor group, comprising:
- a plurality of motor modules, each of the plurality of motor modules including
- a plate configured to secure said module to a display mechanism,
- a motor configured to drive at least one display wheel set, and
- a center pipe fixed on said plate, said center pipe including at least a main guide bearing surface configured to guide the at least one display wheel set in rotation about a main axis, the at least one display wheel set being an outer wheel set surrounding said center pipe and being guided on the main guide bearing surface, wherein
- said center pipe includes at least one axial stop configured to limit an axial movement in a direction of said main axis between said center pipe and said display wheel set based on a predetermined value,
- said one or more axial stop includes:
- a protruding surface of said center pipe that touches said display wheel set, the protruding surface protruding in a radial direction orthogonal to the direction of said main axis;
- and
- a second stop surface of said center pipe, and
- a relative displacement of said outer wheel set with respect to said center pipe is limited:
- by an abutting engagement between the second stop surface of said center pipe and a second upper face of said outer wheel set, and
- by an abutting engagement between a second end face of said outer wheel set and an intermediate face of said center pipe, an abutting surface being perpendicular to said main axis,
- the second stop surface and the intermediate face are comprised in a same said center pipe, and
- said second upper face and said second end face are comprised in a same said outer wheel set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.