Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Citizen Holdings Company, Ltd.

Yasuo Maekawa

Masahiko Waki

Hiroshi Koide

Tomomi Murakami

Minoru Kobayashi

Takashi Ihara

Takayuki Takahashi

Osamu Matsumura

Satoru Fukutome

Takashi Masuda

Hisao Yamagata

Tsunetoshi Sekiguchi

Kisuke Watanabe

Ienobu Ikeda

An electronic device an antenna, an information processing apparatus for the purpose of processing information captured by the antenna, and a metal exterior parts capable of housing therewithin the antenna and the information processing apparatus, wherein the metal exterior parts is configured so that the antenna can receive magnetic flux from outside the metal exterior parts that has passed through the metal exterior parts and can resonate, and wherein at least a part of the metal exterior parts has an electrical resistance value that is different from another part of the metal exterior parts.

Electronic device having metal package unit having built-in antenna unit

Watch band

A water resisting crown structure for electronic wristwatches comprises a guide pipe secured to a watch case, a crown stem slidably engaged in the guide pipe, and a crown locked to the guide pipe by a thread engagement. The guide pipe has an outwardly extending large diameter portion having a thread thereon. The crown stem is connected to a correcting means such as hands and calendar correcting means of the electronic wristwatch and has a non-circular flange on an outer end portion. The crown has an inner cylindrical portion and an outer cylindrical portion which are coaxial with the guide pipe and crown stem. The inner cylindrical portion has a non-circular inner wall engaged with the non-circular flange of the crown stem. The outer cylindrical portion has an inner thread adapted to be engaged with the thread of the guide pipe for locking the crown. A packing is provided in the annular space between the outer cylindrical portion and the inner cylindrical portion of the crown. The thread locking means, packing and non-circular engaging means are coaxially disposed, so that the width of the crown may be decreased.

Water resisting crown structure for electronic wristwatches

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

An electronic wristwatch case construction in which a sound-emitting cover has a battery replacement hole and a plurality of sound-emitting holes. A fixing ring is disposed in concentric relationship with respect to the battery replacement hole of the sound-emitting cover, and a vibrating plate cooperating with a piezoelectric vibrating element for an alarm is spaced from the sound-emitting cover. A battery hatch is detachably fastened to the fixing ring, and a sealing ring is disposed between the battery hatch and the fixing ring to provide a water-tight sealing therebetween.

Electronic wristwatch case

A watchglass fixing structure in which a watchglass fixing member is provided with an annular groove having a groove width approximately equal to the combined thicknesses of the outer diametric portion of a watchglass and the outer circumferential portion of a backing ring, a flange at the upper portion of said annular groove, the inner diameter of the flange being smaller than the outer diameter of said watchglass, and with an inner circumferential surface at the lower portion of said annular groove, the diameter of the inner circumferential surface being larger than the outer diameter of said watchglass. The watchglass is fitted into an upper half of said annular groove of said watchglass fixing member through a waterproof packing, while the outer circumferential portion of said backing ring is inserted into a lower half of said annular groove.

Watchglass fixing structure for timepiece

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Maekawa