US Patent Issued to CITIZEN WATCH on Oct. 14 for "Train wheel holding structure and timepiece" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,143, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CITIZEN WATCH Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Train wheel holding structure and timepiece" was invented by Shoichiro Morita (Saitama, Japan) and Daisuke Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A train wheel holding structure includes a main plate, a train wheel bridge, a pointer hand wheel or a pointe wheel supported by the main plate and the train wheel bridge, and a rotation hand movement train wheel or a fan-shaped/sector hand movement train wheel driving the pointer hand wheel, the train wheel bridge includes support holes corresponding to different two positions to support the pointer hand wheel, ...