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Telephone on which the number called is composed by a crown of the horological type

  • US 5,508,978 A
  • Filed: 08/07/1995
  • Issued: 04/16/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A portable wireless telephone including a principal unit of small volume, a microphone and an earpiece coupled to said principal unit, such latter comprising means for composing a number to be called, including at least one display system in which at least the digits from 0 to 9 making up the number to be called can be displayed one after another by the manipulation of a crown of the horological type, such display system including a dial on which at least the digits 0 to 9 appear, such dial being surmounted by two hands each driven by a stepping motor having a dual sense of rotation, the telephone including a timekeeper also using said dial and said hands in order to display the time of day, at least one of said motors being controlled by the rotation of the crown in order to bring one of said hands onto the chosen digit, said crown being capable of being rotated then pressed in order respectively to choose a digit making up said number, then to confirm said digit and continuing thus until said number is entirely composed.

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