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US 9,310,770 B2Granted
Gear system for a timepiece
AssigneeNivarox-FAR S.A.
InventorsMarco Verardo, Thierry Conus, Jean-Philippe Thiebaud, Jean-Bernard Peters
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system including a pinion (5) and a toothed wheel (7) coaxially mounted relative to a pivoting arbor (3). According to the invention, the gear system (1) includes a securing device (21) between the pinion and the wheel so as to prevent any relative movement of one with respect to the other. The invention also relates to methods of manufacturing the toothed wheel (7) and the final assembly of the gear system (1). The invention concerns the field of timepieces.
Claims10
A gear system including:
- (a) a pinion and a toothed wheel, coaxially mounted relative to a pivoting arbour, wherein the toothed wheel includes a hub pierced with an arbour hole so as to be mounted on the pivoting arbour;
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- (b) a securing device permitting the pinion to be secured to the wheel so as to prevent any relative movement of one with respect to the other, wherein the securing device is integral with the hub of the toothed wheel and includes a blind pattern cavity surrounding the arbour hole, wherein the inner periphery of the hub and the outer periphery of the pinion correspond so as to define a blind pattern cavity shape which matches a section of the pinion so as to secure the pinion and wheel in rotation, wherein the pinion is fixedly mounted to the pivoting arbour.
A gear system including:
- (a) a pinion and a toothed wheel, coaxially mounted relative to a pivoting arbour, wherein the toothed wheel includes a hub pierced with an arbour hole so as to be mounted on the pivoting arbour;
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- (b) a securing device permitting the pinion to be secured to the wheel so as to prevent any relative movement of one with respect to the other, wherein the securing device is integral with the hub of the toothed wheel and includes a blind pattern cavity surrounding the arbour hole, wherein the hub comprises a plurality of cavity shapes which correspond with an integer multiple number of corresponding pinion shapes located on the periphery edge of the pinion so as to define a blind pattern cavity shape which matches a section of the pinion so as to secure the pinion and wheel in rotation, wherein the pinion is fixedly mounted to the pivoting arbour.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.