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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2002
Jean-charles Guanter, Diesse, CH;
Gian-carlo Poli, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, CH;
Jean-Charles Guanter, Diesse, CH;
Gian-Carlo Poli, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, CH;
Asulab S.A., Marin, CH;
Abstract
The manual control device for executing functions of an electronic watch () particularly a diary watch, includes a certain number of sensors (Cto C) wherein one touch sensitive pad of each sensor is placed for example on an internal face of the crystal (). When a user's finger () is placed on the watch crystal in a determined zone of the sensitive pad of a sensor to be activated, it causes an electronic circuit () of the device to execute an instruction or a function. In a first mode selected by the electronic circuit, at least two sensors are grouped such that the electronic circuit executes the same operation when a finger is placed on the crystal in a determined zone of the sensitive pad of one sensor or the other. However, in a second mode selected by the electronic circuit, each sensor (Cto C) activated by the finger () provides measuring signals to the electronic circuit () for the execution of a different specific operation for each sensor. The sensitive pads of the sensors are distributed on the internal face of the crystal for the purpose of allowing data to be entered into the watch, pre-stored data to be consulted or different function menus to be consulted.