Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Electronic digital display watch having solar and geographical functions

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5763838

In order to provide easily accessible knowledge of the correlations between time, the geographical locale and the solar positions, the watch in question in addition to time-keeping means capable of displaying the current time also provides means capable of storing, processing in a microprocessor mode and displaying in a particular panel mode data of solar elevation and azimuth as well as date data, a computer performing correlating operations between these various values. Pushbuttons (BPH', BPM', BPB') allow using this watch in various operational and correction situations, and other pushbuttons (BPH, BPM, BPB) allow more specific commands for correction, for search operations regarding date and place based on the solar data, for storage and call from memory of the various processed data. This watch can easily be implemented as a small wrist watch. It will be advantageously used by those interested in knowing the solar positions, by solar facility engineers, architects, airline pilots, believers in the Moslem faith etc.

Assignee:
EDB-85-078016
Patent Number(s):
US 4479722
OSTI ID:
5763838
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

BATSE repeaters in the context of the WATCH/EURECA and WATCH/GRANAT catalogues
Journal Article · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998 · AIP Conference Proceedings · OSTI ID:641440

THE GENETICALLY SIGNIFICANT RADIATION DOSE FROM LUMINOUS WRIST WATCHES
Journal Article · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1963 · Physics in Medicine and Biology (England) · OSTI ID:4636421

RADIOACTIVITY OF LUMINOUS WATCHES AND ESTIMATION OF DOSE TO THE WRIST AND THE GONADS
Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1961 · Phys. in Med. Biol. · OSTI ID:4020629