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Decoration display device and timepiece comprising such display device

US5740130A · kind A · utility

26Cited by
5References
10Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 13, 1997
Grant dateApr 14, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 13, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09F23/16
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Device producing an aesthetic effect by means of a field-effect or charge-effect optical shutter (5), allowing, by the switching of a power source (8), a colored decorative design (11) printed onto a non Lambertian optimized diffuse reflector (12), placed against the back face (5a) of the optical shutter, to be uncovered or masked; timepiece wherein the dial is formed wholly or partly by such a device.

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