System for mounting the coil of the motor in an electric watch

• US 4,317,187 A
• Filed: 03/10/1980
• Issued: 02/23/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: France Ebauches SA
• Original Assignee: France Ebauches SA
• Inventors: Huot-Marchand, Daniel, Zangiacomi, Fernand
• Primary Examiner(s): Weldon, Ulysses
• Application Number:
  US06/128,391
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 310/40 MM, 29/739, 29/832, 29/602 R, 361/400, 336/233, 335/281, 335/297, 368/155, 368/156, 368/88, 368/204
• US Class Current: 368/88
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 29/04 Connecting or supporting parts
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 3/14 incorporating a stepping motor G04C3/02 - G04C3/12 take precedence generating timing pulses G04F5/00, G04G3/00; setting G04G5/00; synchronisation G04G7/00; generating commutating pulses in masterclocks G04C13/0463, G04C13/02; slave clocks actuated intermittently by electromechanical step advancing mechanisms G04C13/10; control circuits for stepping motors in general H02P8/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/185 to outer stators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 37/16 having horseshoe armature cores

Abstract

A system for fastening the coil of a step-by-step motor in an electric or an electronic watch.

It is characterized by the fact that one or both pole pieces 4 and 4'"'"' of the coil 2 have extrusions 10 and 11 of cylindrical shape which extend perpendicular to the plane of the pole piece 4 and are intended to be introduced into corresponding boreholes in the substrate of the printed circuit 1.

This arrangement is advantageous since the extrusions can be produced by stamping before the heat treatment of the pole pieces, which eliminates the stresses which might, upon the mounting of the coil, destroy the magnetic qualities of the materials.

Claims

1. A system for mounting the coil of the motor in an electric watch wherein the electric watch includes an electric motor for driving the watch, the motor includes a coil on a core and the core has pole pieces, a support for the coil, the support having a respective recess defined therein for a respective extrusion of a pole piece, at least one of the pole pieces of the coil has at least one extrusion which protrudes with respect to the plane of said piece, and the extrusion is of a shape and of dimensions complementary with respect to those of the respective corresponding recess in the support on which the coil is intended to be mounted and the respective recess being placed such that the extrusion can be received in that recess.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the pole piece of the coil core comprise two flat flanges, each of which forms an extension on a respective end of the core of the coil, at least one of these flanges having the at least one extrusion thereon, and the flange extrusion being produced by stamping prior to the heat treatment of the pole piece, the extrusion being cylindrical in shape and the extrusion extending perpendicular to the plane of the flange.

3. A system according to either of claims 1 or 2, wherein the watch includes a printed electric circuit connected to the motor, the support on which the coil is intended to be mounted comprises a substrate for the printed circuit of the watch, the recess in the support comprising the substrate having at least one cylindrical bore therein having a diameter that corresponds to that of the extrusion of the pole piece, so that the extrusion can be force-fitted in the substrate bore by a slight pressure.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein the cylindrical extrusion has an axial cylindrical bore therethrough concentric with respect to the peripheral surface of the extrusion and intended for the passage of a fastening screw, and a fastening screw passing through the cylindrical bore for fastening the printed circuit, pole piece and substrate.

5. A system according to either of claims 1 or 2, wherein at least one pole piece has a pair of the extrusions thereon and the support has a respective recess defined therein for each of the extrusions of the pair thereof, and each of the recesses in the support being placed such that one of the extrusions can be received in that recess.

6. A system according to claim 5, further comprising a bore extending through the pole piece and spaced from both of the extrusions and intended for the passage therethrough of a fastening element, and a fastening element passing through the bore for fastening the pole piece and the support.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein the pole piece has a bore therethrough intended for the passage of a fastening element, and a fastening element passing through the bore for fastening the pole piece and the support.