Robert F Sagarino

US Patent:

40331083, Jul 5, 1977

Filed:

Mar 2, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/663139

Inventors:

William O. Bennett - Bayside NY
Robert F. Sagarino - Wheatley Heights NY

Assignee:

Bulova Watch Company, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

G04B 1930
G04C 300

US Classification:

58 50R

Abstract:

A solid-state electronic watch having a battery-operated multi-digit display of the light-emitting diode type. In the Normal-mode of the watch, the display is quiescent to conserve power and prolong the life of the battery. A depressible Time-button switch is provided which, in the Time-mode, causes the display to present different functions of time, such as Hours-Minutes and Month-Date, depending on how the button is actuated by the user. A depressible Set-button switch is also provided. This switch, when repeatedly depressed and released by the user presents in sequence the individual readings to be set, such as Hours, Minutes and Date. The particular reading presented on the display by operation of the Set-button is advanced by actuating the Time-button. An automatic cut-off system is provided which in the Time-mode acts to discontinue the LED display immediately or shortly after the Time-button is released and in the Set-mode acts to discontinue the LED display shortly after the Set-button is released, whereby the watch always reverts to its Normal-mode regardless of how these buttons are operated.

US Patent:

40755185, Feb 21, 1978

Filed:

Jun 22, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/698506

Inventors:

Dale R. Koehler - Westwood NJ
Robert F. Sagarino - Wheatley Heights NY
Charles A. Sauter - Westbury NY

Assignee:

Bulova Watch Company, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

H02K 3700

US Classification:

310 49R

Abstract:

A micro-miniature stepping motor suitable for driving the gear works of an electronic watch wherein low-frequency timing impulses derived from a high-frequency time base are applied to the stator coil of the motor to cause the rotor therof to index ninety degrees in response to each impulse. The rotor includes a square rotor plate and a stator plate parallel thereto, a shaft secured to the center of the rotor plate extending through a central opening in the stator plate. Mounted on the underside of the rotor plate at the corners thereof are four permanent magnet blocks with their poles in mutual opposition to form a magnetic circuit between the rotor and stator plates whose lines of flux bridge the air gap therebetween. The stator plate has a generally square formation whereby the magnet blocks on the rotor, in the absence of a torque-producing force, seek to orient themselves to a stable position of minimum reluctance. In this position, each block is proximate to a respective corner of the stator plate, there being a series of four such stable positions which are ninety degrees apart.

US Patent:

40331105, Jul 5, 1977

Filed:

Dec 22, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/643135

Inventors:

Robert F. Sagarino - Wheatley Heights NY

Assignee:

Bulova Watch Company, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

G04B 3700

US Classification:

58 88R

Abstract:

A solid-state electronic timepiece movement receivable within a watch case having an end window therein. The movement includes a plastic block provided at its forward end with a ledge on which is seated a module. Mounted on the obverse face of the module and viewable through the window of the watch case are electro-optical stations of a time display. The operating elements of the stations are connected through the body of the module to integrated circuit chips mounted on the back face of the module. These chips provide the circuits of an electronic timekeeping system operating in conjunction with discrete elements housed in the block and constituted by a quartz-crystal unit, a frequency-adjusting capacitor and a pair of power cells as well as time demand and setting switches. The discrete elements are connected to the system by means of a printed circuit board overlying the forward section of the block and provided with a pair of flexible contact fingers extending over the rear section of the block to engage the poles of the power cells which are accommodated in respective hatches formed in the rear section of the block.

US Patent:

D2462303, Nov 1, 1977

Filed:

Dec 3, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/637115

Inventors:

Robert F. Sagarino - Wheatley Heights NY

Assignee:

Bulova Watch Company, Inc. - Flushing NY

International Classification:

D1002

US Classification:

D10 38