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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1996
Pierre-Andre Noirjean, Develier, CH;
Viron Teodoridis, Hauterive, CH;
Eta SA Fabriques d'Ebauches, Grenchen, CH;
Abstract
Portable receiver for receiving and displaying radio broadcast messages having a series of characters, the portable receiver including a housing (6) having at least one face (7); a memory (45) for storing messages; a display (2) mounted on or visible through the face, for displaying the stored messages; and at least one control device (4) including a manually actuable member (200), the control device being adapted to enable manipulation of the stored messages by a rotation applied to the manually actuable member. Control device (4) includes a stem (205) rotatably mounted in housing (6) around its longitudinal axis. Manually actuable member (200) includes a dome-shaped portion (5) at least partially emerging from face (7). Stem (205) is fixedly attached to manually actuable member (200) so that dome-shaped portion (5) is rotatable around the longitudinal axis.