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US 12,405,578 B2Granted
Ttimepiece having a driving wheel including a hole with projections disengageable with a crown shaft
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYoshio Mishima
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Abstract
A timepiece includes an inner rotating ring including a plurality of teeth portions; a driving crown including a head portion and a shaft portion; and a driving wheel including a hole portion engageable with and disengageable from the shaft portion, and configured to mesh with the teeth portions. The hole portion includes a plurality of protruding portions disposed at intervals of an angle smaller than 90° and protruding toward a rotation axis of the shaft portion.
Claims7
A timepiece comprising:
- an inner rotating ring including a plurality of first teeth;
- an operation part including a head and a shaft, the operation part being configured to move along a rotation axis of the shaft by push and pull operations by a user;
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- a driving wheel that is ring-shaped, the driving wheel having a plurality of second teeth in an outer surface and a plurality of projections in an inner surface to form a hole, the hole being engageable with and disengageable from the shaft, the plurality of second teeth being configured to mesh with the plurality of first teeth at a first engagement position, wherein
- the plurality of projections are disposed at intervals of an angle smaller than 90° and protrude toward the rotation axis of the shaft,
- the shaft of the operation part is configured to engage with the plurality of projections of the driving wheel at a second engagement position, and
- the first engagement position is shifted from the second engagement position along the rotation axis in a plan view.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.