Asulab S.a.

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd

The Swatch Group Management Services Ag

Smh Management Services Ag

Interuniversitair Micorelektronica Centrum (imec, Vzw)

Universitait Gent

Joachim Grupp

Gian-Carlo Poli

Jean-Charles Poli

Rolf Klappert

Hans Peter Herzig

Yvan Teres

Pierre-Yves Baroni

Yves Winkler

Yves Ruedin

Patrik Hoffmann

Romano Cristoni

Estelle Wagner

Peter Kipfer

Bernard Lemarie

Juan Manuel Teijido

Pascal Winkler

Thierry Hessler

Jean-Claude Martin

Stewes Bourban

Jean-Luc Bazin

Fridolin Wiget

Beat Gilomen

Jean-Philippe Rebeaud

Naci Basturk

Frédéric Meylan

Nicolas Blanckaert

Toralf Scharf

Stefan Lauxtermann

Jan Doutreloigne

Jean-Pierre Haring

Norbert Kopsits

Gian Carlo Poli

Hugues Vuill&eacute;me

Yvan Ter&eacute;s

Manuel Bouvier

Harthmuth Buczek

Christian Bohley

Steve Tanner

Eiko Doering

Anne Montheard

The present invention relates to a method of making a timepiece plate. This method is characterized in that it includes the following steps:

Method of manufacturing a watch plate

The invention relates to a pressure sensor (). This pressure sensor () comprises a flexible membrane () cooperating with a transmission device () that enables a value representing the pressure to be supplied on the basis of the deformation of the membrane (). The membrane () is made from an at least partially amorphous material in order to optimise the dimensions of the sensor ().

Pressure sensor with a flexible membrane

Nanocomposites of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer and electronically active material, in particular PEDOT and LiFePO, were found to be significantly better compared to bare and carbon coated LiFePOin carbon black and graphite filled non conducting binder. The conductive polymer containing composite outperformed the other two samples. The performance of PEDOT composite was especially better in the high current regime with capacity retention of 82% after 200 cycles. Further improvement can be obtained if the porosity of the nanocomposites is enhanced. Hence an electrode produced from a composite made of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer, electronically active material, and sacrificial polymer, wherein the sacrificial polymer has been removed leaving pores has improved electrolyte and ion diffusion properties allowing the production of thicker electrodes.

Electrically conductive nanocomposite material comprising sacrificial nanoparticles and open porous nanocomposites produced thereof

The display device includes a display cell including liquid crystals and a matrix of electrodes arranged in lines and columns in a closed cavity. The lines and columns define display cell pixels. The display device includes a control circuit for lines and columns for display of data on the display cell. In complete display mode, all lines and columns are addressed at several voltage levels by successive line-by-line multiplexing. In low power partial display mode, two groups of adjacent lines are joined so they are each controlled by a respective line control signal from the control circuit. The N lines and groups of lines are simultaneously addressed in active manner at two voltage levels. N line control signals include a series of N-bit binary line words that change every determined period of time, T, so 2combinations of binary line words are present in each successive cycle of length 2&#xb7;T.

Display device able to operate in low power partial display mode

The electrodes () and the contact zones () are structured in a film of a transparent conductive oxide (TCO), deposited on a transparent support () possibly coated with an intermediate film (), while being separated by dielectric spaces () formed by nano fissures () obtained by UV radiation and passing through the TCO film. A protective film () can coat the electrodes () and the dielectric spaces ().

Transparent substrate with invisible electrodes and device incorporating the same

An electro-optical display cell including: a transparent front substrate whose top surface forms the front face of the cell; a back substrate whose lower surface forms the back face of the cell; a sealing frame joining the front and back substrates and defining a volume for retaining an electro-optically or photo-electrically active medium; the front and back substrates including on faces opposite to each other at least one electrode, each connected by conductive paths to an electrical power or control circuit and defining lateral electric contact zones, wherein the conductive paths are each formed of a first part in contact with the electrodes at the level of the lateral electric contact zones, and a second part extending over the back surface, contact means arranged over the edge and/or the back of the cell forming the electrical junction between the first and second parts of the conductive paths.

Display cell, in particular liquid crystal, or photovoltaic cell comprising means for connection to an electronic control circuit

The balance spring is made from a photostructurable glass plate by UV irradiation, thermal treatment and etching, said glass having a Young's modulus thermal coefficient CTE. The value CTEof selected zones of the balance spring are altered to a value CTEby UV irradiation through one or several masks, possibly completed by a thermal treatment.

Spiral spring made of athermal glass for clockwork movement and method for making same

The substrate with electrodes is formed of a transparent material onto which is deposited a film () of a transparent conductive material of thickness eand of refractive index n, said film being structured to form a set of electrodes () whose contours () delimit insulating spaces (), wherein the insulating spaces () are filled with a transparent dielectric material of thickness eand of refractive index nso that the respective thicknesses of the conductive material and the dielectric material are inversely proportional to the values of the refractive indices of said materials and said dielectric material forms neither depressions nor beads at the contour () of the electrodes. A hardcoating layer () may be disposed between the substrate () and the electrodes and a protective film () added. The substrate with electrodes is obtained by UV irradiation through a single mask.

Method of substrate with transparent electrodes and devices incorporating it

The present invention is a lighting device for an electronic or electromechanical apparatus such as a timepiece of the wristwatch type. The invention includes a device displaying time-related or other information, this lighting device including a light source for lighting the display device. The lighting device is characterized in that the light source is also able to measure the intensity of the ambient light. The invention also concerns a method for controlling the lighting of an apparatus of the aforementioned type.

Method and device for lighting an electronic or electromechanical apparatus

Method of manufacturing a transparent element including transparent electrodes, said method including the steps of:

Method of manufacturing a transparent element including transparent electrodes

The invention relates to a portable electronic object including a 'voice' user interface containing sound signal-reception and a management unit which manages the received sound signals. The invention includes an ambient noise sensor which can be used to measure the level of ambient noise (Bm). The sensor is connected to the aformementioned control unit. The control unit also compares the measured ambient noise level with a pre-defined noise level (Bo), and includes controls that deactivate the sound signal-processing when the ambient noise level exceeds the pre-defined noise level (Bm&#x3e;Bo).

Adaptability of the interface of a portable object as a function of environment

Substrate with transparent electrodes and devices incorporating it

There is disclosed a CMOS technology image sensor and a method for operating such an image sensor. This sensor includes a plurality of pixels () each including a photo-sensor element (PD) producing charge carriers in proportion to its illumination and storage means (C) capable of being coupled and uncoupled from the photo-sensor element at a determined instant in order to store, on a memory node (B) of the pixel, a measuring signal representative of the charge carriers produced by said photo-sensor element during an exposure phase. Each pixel includes at least one MOS transistor (M; M) connected in series via its drain or source terminals to the photo-sensor element, and the transistor is configured such that it operates at least partially in weak inversion so that, during the exposure phase, the pixel has a logarithmic response for illumination levels higher than a determined illumination level. This at least partially logarithmic response enables the pixel dynamic range to be increased.

CMOS image sensor and method for operating a CMOS image sensor in a weak inversion mode with increased dynamic range

A conductive pattern, made of a transparent conductive oxide, such as ITO including electrodes () and conductive paths () is formed on one face of a transparent substrate () made of sapphire or toughened glass, then coated with a first layer () of a transparent dielectric with a low refractive index, such as MgFor LiF, and then a second layer () of another transparent dielectric having a higher refractive index than the first, such as AlO, TaOor DLC.

Method for manufacturing a transparent element with invisible electrodes

A light source () is housed in a housing () of a case, underneath the dial () opposite a guide () directing the light onto a reflector (), formed in a hollow in the internal or external face of a crystal () the thickness of which decreases regularly from the center to the periphery thereof for reorienting the light by total internal reflection into the crystal () until it emerges towards the dial () when the maximum refractive index is exceeded.

Lighting device with central symmetry for a dial

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Enges, Switzerland

Joachim Grupp