US 12,007,716 B2
Flexible timepiece component and horological movement including such a component
Pierre Cusin, Villars-Burquin (CH); Christian Charbon, Chézard-St-Martin (CH); Alexandre Haemmerli, Neuchâtel (CH); Lionel Paratte, Marin-Epagnier (CH); and Matthias Imboden, St-Blaise (CH)
Assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd, Marin (CH)
Filed by The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd, Marin (CH)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/102,793.
Claims priority of application No. 19218863 (EP), filed on Dec. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0191322 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. G04B 1/14 (2006.01); F16F 1/02 (2006.01); F16F 1/10 (2006.01); G04B 17/06 (2006.01)
CPC G04B 1/145 (2013.01) [F16F 1/021 (2013.01); F16F 1/10 (2013.01); G04B 17/06 (2013.01); F16F 2224/0208 (2013.01); F16F 2228/007 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flexible timepiece component for an oscillator mechanism or for a barrel of a horological movement, the component extending along a main plane and including at least a part made of a composite material, wherein the composite material comprises a matrix and a multitude of nanowires distributed in the matrix, the nanowires being juxtaposed, the matrix including a material for filling the interstices between the nanowires to join them to each other, each nanowire forming a solid one-piece tube, the nanowires being disposed substantially parallel to an axis substantially perpendicular to the main plane of the component.