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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2023
Eta SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse, Grenchen, CH;
Patric Pham, Utzenstorf, CH;
Christophe Donzé, Pieterlen, CH;
ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSE, Grenchen, CH;
Abstract
A gripper device () for maintaining, centring, and/or clamping a micromechanical or horological component () in a clamping chamber defined by a clamp including at least one mobile jaw (). At least a part of the mobile jaws () includes a reference surface () for frontal bearing of a component (), and the gripper device () includes a vacuum generator () for creating the vacuum in the clamping chamber. Also, a method for fastening a micromechanical or horological component () in the clamping chamber of such a gripper device () according to which the component () is disposed on the reference surface (), then a first maintaining by vacuum is carried out, then a second maintaining having a torque greater than that of the first maintaining by pivoting of the mobile jaws ().