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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Timex Group Usa, Inc., Middlebury, CT (US);
Inventors:
Gerhard Stotz, Eisingen, DE;
Louis M. Galie, Leander, TX (US);
Assignee:
Timex Group USA, Inc., Middlebury, , CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F 8/00 (2006.01); G04B 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G04B 19/046 (2013.01); G04B 19/048 (2013.01); G04F 8/006 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methodologies and constructions of displaying elapsed time on a wristworn device, which include among other things, having at least two display hands one of which that will rotate faster or stop so that they become coincident with each other, then rotate together and then reassume their normal and accurate positions. Such is particularly important with respect to one of the hands that is preferably a seconds hand that might otherwise be displaying seconds of the time of day ('TOD').