US 12,066,793 B2
Method for manufacturing a plurality of generators adapted for a horological application
Olivier Matthey, Mauborget (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 Aug. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/408,546.
Claims priority of application No. 20200800 (EP), filed on Oct. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0113683 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G04C 10/00 (2006.01); G04C 3/00 (2006.01); G04C 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G04C 10/00 (2013.01) [G04C 3/008 (2013.01); G04C 3/16 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49012 (2015.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for manufacturing a plurality of permanent magnet generators adapted for a horological application wherein each generator is rotated by a watch mechanism driven by a source of mechanical energy and where each generator power supplies an electronic circuit operating in a given power supply voltage range, said method comprising a step of manufacturing coils, a step of manufacturing rotors, and then a step of assembling a plurality of stators, each formed of a given number of coils manufactured during the step of manufacturing coils, respectively with a plurality of rotors, manufactured during the step of manufacturing rotors, to obtain the plurality of generators; the step of manufacturing rotors being carried out, with given tolerances, on the basis of data defining a reference rotor; wherein the step of manufacturing coils comprises manufacturing N pluralities of coils, similar within the same plurality and different from one plurality to another, N being an integer greater than one (N>1); in that, before said step of assembling the plurality of stators with the plurality of rotors, a step of classifying the rotors of the plurality of rotors into N classes of rotors is carried out, the rotors of each of the N classes of rotors being selected so that they have a magnetic coupling factor with a reference stator, formed with said given number of reference coils placed in a reference configuration relative to each rotor, which is located within a continuous classification value range which is not superimposed on the continuous classification value ranges of other rotor classes; in that the N pluralities of coils are associated respectively with the N classes of rotors, thus forming N ‘plurality of coils and associated class of rotors’ pairs, so that the rotors of each class of rotors each have a magnetic coupling factor with a corresponding stator, formed of said given number of coils of the plurality of coils associated with the considered class of rotors, which is located in an optimised value range among N optimised value ranges relating respectively to the N pairs, each of the N optimised value ranges being at least partially superimposed with another of these N optimised value ranges; so that a minimum value of the N optimised value ranges is greater than a minimum value of the continuous classification value ranges and that a maximum value of these N optimised value ranges is less than a maximum value of the continuous classification value ranges; and so that the N optimised value ranges lie within a range of values for the magnetic coupling factor corresponding to the given power supply voltage range; and wherein said assembly step is carried out by assembling the rotors of each class of rotors with a stator formed by said given number of coils of the associated plurality of coils with which said class of rotors forms one of said N pairs.