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US 12,625,466 B2Granted
Constant-energy escapement for timepiece
AssigneeRolex SA
InventorXuan Mai Tu
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Abstract
An escapement device for a mechanical timepiece having an escapement wheel cooperating with a rocker and a mobile element, the rocker cooperates with the escapement wheel by blocking arms and with the balance plate by a release fork, the mobile element having a spring cooperating with the teeth of the escapement wheel by a winding arm and with the balance wheel plate by an impulse arm. This space-saving escapement device is able to supply the balance wheel with an almost constant quantity of energy within a variable barrel torque range.
Claims10
An escapement device for a mechanical timepiece including:
- an escapement wheel comprising teeth,
- a rocker,
- a mobile element,
- at least one piece forming part of an oscillator of the timepiece, the escapement wheel cooperating with the rocker and the mobile element, the rocker cooperating with the escapement wheel by blocking means and with the piece forming part of the oscillator by release means, the mobile element comprising elastic means arranged to store elastic energy, and cooperating with the escapement wheel by winding means and with the piece forming part of the oscillator by impulse means,
- characterized in that:
- the winding means are arranged to carry out a phase of winding the elastic means along a first direction of rotation of the piece forming part of an oscillator and the impulse means are arranged to carry out an impulse phase given by the mobile element to the piece forming part of the oscillator during the rotation of the piece forming part of an oscillator along at least a second direction of rotation of the piece forming part of an oscillator,
- and in that:
- the impulse is given directly from the mobile element to the piece forming part of the oscillator,
- the piece forming part of the oscillator comprises two fingers or levers forming a double lift able to receive energy coming from the mobile element in both directions of rotation of the piece forming part of an oscillator.
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