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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1995

Filed:

Apr. 18, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Gabriel Mossuz, Annemasse, FR;

Pascal Puthod, Arenthon, FR;

Assignee:

ISA France S.A., Villers-le-Lac, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04B / ; G04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
368 37 ; 368 66 ;
Abstract

A horological piece includes a display (10) comprising a recurring cycle indicator (13) driven by an independent motor (11) and having a supplementary display position (14) at which a sign representative of the state of charge of an energy source controlling the display, is provided. The horological piece further includes a detection circuit (2, 16) adapted to, firstly, during the detection of a predetermined level of charge of the energy source, control the display so that the recurring cycle indicator is moved the required number of steps to display the representative sign and, secondly, jump the supplementary position during the normal operation of the horological piece.


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