Timepiece
OwnerWilli Schickedanzinventor
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Abstract
A watch is provided with means for displaying time and date and day of the week etc. by means of liquid crystal elements or the like. The display elements are distributed regularly over tape-like means of almost uniform thickness together with means for generating time standard impulses, means for applying energy etc. Thus, a watch will be obtained which is not separated into a bracelet and a case of a wrist watch or into a clockwork and a display area, respectively. The display area is, on the contrary, dispersed all over the surface of a bangle or means having a similar form.
Claims28
A timepiece comprising means for generating time standards, including an oscillator for producing a high frequency time standard signal;
- means for converting said time standards into different time unit pulses, including a pulse shaping device and circuit means for dividing said high frequency time standard signal into different time unit pulses;
- and time displaying means connected to said converting means and being capable of changing their light emitting states in correspondence to said time unit pulses;
- a plurality of shift registers connected to the time displaying means, said circuit means being connected to one out of said plurality of shift registers, whereby during the supply of one of said time displaying means those time displaying means which had been supplied before are switched off, and further including an AND-gate connected between a shift element of one of said plurality of shift registers and the corresponding time displaying means, the first input of said AND-gate being connected to the output of said shift element and the second input of said AND-gate being connected to the output of the following shift element via an inverting gate.
A timepiece comprising, in combination, means defining an at least approximately closed annular wrist band;
- a plurality of electrically controllable display units distributed in circumferential succession about substantially the entirety of the annular wrist band;
- and circuit means operative for generating a time reference signal, converting the reference signal into time unit pulses and in dependence upon the time unit pulses controlling the operation of the display units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.