Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Hisao Yamagata

Masahiko Waki

Hiroshi Ogawa

Hiroshi Koide

Singo Ichikawa

Minoru Natori

Toshio Murata

Toshikazu Hatuse

Masataka Matsumoto

Toshiaki Oguchi

Tadahiko Nakagiri

Osamu Matsumura

Yasuo Maekawa

Tsunetoshi Sekiguchi

Yoshinobu Kashima

Toshikazu Shimazaki

Ryo Namiki

Kouhei Kawanobe

Kisuke Watanabe

Fumio Takeuchi

Kunihiro Daigo

A buckle has a cover rotatably connected to an end of one of bands, a middle plate rotatably connected to the cover, and a bottom plate rotatably connected to the middle plate and rotatably connected to the other band. A guide housing is secured to an underside of the cover, and a pair of push plates are slidably mounted in the guide housing. A spring is provided between the push plates for outwardly urging the push plates respectively. A slant is formed on an engaging projection of the push plate. A pair of lugs are formed on the bottom plate. Each of the lugs has an engaging hole and is arranged such that the lug is engaged with the slant so as to inwardly move the push plate, and that the engaging hole engages with engaging projection of the push plate, thereby coupling the buckle. A leaf spring is provided for urging the cover in a disengaging direction.

Buckle for watch bands

A timepiece push-button structure comprising a spring member composed of tongue portions interconnected by a connection portion, each tongue portion being bridge-shaped so that the central portion is raised while both end portions of the central portion abut against a pressure conductive rubber holder, each tongue portion further including a substantially centrally located arcuate notch and a bifurcation extending therefrom. A push-button having a groove is adapted to engage said notch, and a pressure conductive rubber is adapted for the application of pressure and disposed directly below the push-button.

Timepiece push-button structure

An electronic calculator watch which comprises timekeeping means composed of an oscillator, a frequency divider connected to the oscillator, a counter circuit connected to the frequency divider, and a driver circuit connected to the counter circuit for providing an output signal indicative of time information, and calculating means composed of an oscillator circuit and a calculation circuit responsive to perform calculations under control of numerical inputs furnished by external operation device provided on a watch case. The watch also comprises a display including a first display section connected to the driver circuit of the timekeeping means to display the output signal delivered therefrom, and a second display section connected to the calculating means to display the result of calculations, each of the first and second display sections having a plurality of digit electrodes and a plurality of segment electrodes arranged in a matrix configuration.

Electronic calculator watch

A structure for fixing a watchglass of a watch case, which comprises a watchglass fixing member having a ring-shaped recess and a flange formed at an upper portion of said recess, a watchglass having an outer diametric surface formed with an inclined guiding surface below said outer diametric surface, and a synthetic resin ring disposed in said recess of said watchglass fixing member and sandwiched between said recess and said watchglass and having a protrusion formed when said watchglass is press fitted into said synthetic resin ring, said protrusion serving as means for retaining said watchglass in a fixed place.

Watchglass fixing structure

A switch mechanism for a wristwatch having a case and a substrate mounted in the case, which comprises conductive contact means disposed on the substrate to be in registration with a switch position of the switch mechanism, stepped bore means provided in alignment with the contact means, a diaphragm assembly including a flange, an embossed portion integral with the flange, and a contact element provided on a bottom wall of the embossed portion to be in alignment with the contact means, pressure ring means for compressing the flange to retain the diaphragm assembly in place while providing a water-tight sealing effect, and push-button means disposed in the stepped bore means and normally engaging the embossed portion of the diaphragm assembly, said push-button means being movable to press the embossed portion and the contact element toward the contact means to close the switch mechanism when the push-button means is depressed.

Switch mechanism for wristwatch

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Hisao Yamagata