Fastening part for a hairspring

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10338529-B2
Application number	US-201715609753-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2017
Priority date	Jun 1, 2016
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

A fastening stud ( 1 ) for one end of a hairspring, the stud having a first portion ( 10 ) designed to come into contact with the hairspring, the first portion being formed such as to have a first surface ( 10 b ) and a second bearing surface ( 10 c ) with the hairspring.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An assembly comprising a hairspring and a fastening stud,
the stud having a first portion designed to come into contact with the hairspring,
the first portion being formed so as to have a first surface and at least one second surface, wherein each of the first surface and second surface is a bearing surface in contact with a same face of the hairspring,
the first surface and the at least one second surface together forming an angle,
the first surface and the at least one second surface being discontinuous.

2. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface are separated by a slot.

3. The assembly as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the slot extends in the direction of a height of the hairspring over a height greater than the height of the hairspring.

4. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the first surface and of the at least one second surface has, at one of the ends of the respective first or at least one second surface in the direction of the height of the hairspring, a positioning shape extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the respective first or at least one second surface.

5. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the first surface and of the at least one second surface has, at two of the ends of the respective first or at least one second surface in the direction of the height of the hairspring, respectively a first positioning shape and a second positioning shape, the shapes extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the surface.

6. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the stud includes a second portion designed to come into contact with a stud support.

7. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface are flat.

8. The assembly as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface are cylindrical.

9. The assembly as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface are cylinders of revolution.

10. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface are arranged substantially perpendicular to a plane of the hairspring.

11. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface are at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) arranged substantially perpendicular to a plane of the helical spring and (ii) curved to form portions of a single cylinder of revolution or are made tangential to a single cylinder of revolution.

12. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first surface and the at least one second surface forms a non-zero angle with a plane that is parallel and orthoradial to the axis of the hairspring.

13. A manufacturing method for an assembly as claimed in claim 1 , the method including:
providing the stud,
providing the hairspring,
fastening the stud to the hairspring at the level of the first surface and the at least one second surface by welding.

14. The manufacturing method as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the fastening is performed by laser welding.

15. A clockwork oscillator or clockwork movement or timepiece including an assembly as claimed in claim 1 .

16. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface together form an angle of between 150° and 179° considered from the axis of the hairspring.

17. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface and the at least one second surface together form an angle considered from the axis of the hairspring.

Assignees

• Rolex Sa

Inventors

• Balague Olivier
• Gyger Thomas
• Papes Ondrej
• Rime Antoine

Classifications

• G04B17/325 Primary

  for fastening the hairspring in a fixed position, e.g. using a block · CPC title

• G04B17/345

  Details of the spiral roll · CPC title

• G04B17/066

  Manufacture of the spiral spring (locking of the spiral spring by the regulating lever G04B18/026; spiral spring with temperature compensation G04B17/227; fixation of the spiral spring on the collet G04B17/32; mainspring G04B1/14) · CPC title

• G04B17/32 Primary

  Component parts or constructional details, e.g. collet, stud {, virole or piton} · CPC title

• G04B17/34 Primary

  for fastening the hairspring onto the balance · CPC title