Time adjustment arrangement for digital displays

US4855971A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Alfred Meisner · Nuremberg, DE
• Karlheinz Hammelsbacher · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 2, 1987
• Grant date: Aug 8, 1989
• Expiry date: Jul 2, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G04G5/04
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electronic timepiece or clock with a digital display, and with an arrangement for the setting or adjustment of the minutes and/or hour display through either a short or lengthier depression of a timing push button. A single timing push button is provided on the timepiece for the forward and for the backward setting of the display. The single timing push button also serves for the rapid setting of the display. In this connection, the arrangement for the setting of the minutes and/or hour display provides for a distinction between a short depression of the timing push button (t<t.sub.1) and a lengthier depression of the timing push button (t>t.sub.1).