Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Game or sport
Patent
1994-10-28
1996-08-27
Wambach, Margaret Rose
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Game or sport
A63B 7106
Patent
active
055508847
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD ON THE INVENTION
The present invention concerns an analogue display "golf counter" device and a watch, for example of the wristwatch type, combined with such a device.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Small golf counters which enable simply a player's strokes at a hole to be counted, without the possibility of providing a cumulative total, nor the possibility of taking account of the par, are already known. The means of obtaining the complete result of a round of golf is relatively complex. For each hole, there is a par. If the player uses less strokes than the par for that hole, he scores points and his score is negative; if he uses more strokes he loses points and his score is positive. The scores at each hole are then added together. If at the end of the round, the player has a negative score, he has done better than the total par for each hole. If his score is positive, he has done worse. His final result is then obtained after deduction of his handicap, this handicap taking account of the difference in level between the various players. Further, it is advantageous to have a clear view of the game at any time, and to have the possibility of knowing the "simple total" corresponding to the score of the play in progress, and the "cumulative total" corresponding to the cumulative score since the beginning of the game.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A purpose of the present invention is to provide a golf counter enabling account to be taken of all the peculiarities of the game of golf and providing simple reading as with analogue display means.
The invention thus concerns an analogue display golf counter device characterised in that it comprises hands driven independently of each other by stepping motors, a dial, at least a first and a second scale intended to co-operate with at least one of said hands, and manual data input means for introducing, in particular, a number of strokes, said first scale comprising a plurality of positions which correspond respectively to the different holes of a golf course, said device also comprising first selection and display means which can be operated manually to select and display with the aid of a first of said hands in conjunction with said first scale, one of the holes of the course, said device being further characterised in that it also comprises electronic counting, storing, processing and control means for calculating and displaying a number of points on said second scale with the aid of at least one of said hands, said number of points being according to at least a first operating mode of the device, calculated by taking into account said number of strokes introduced for each of the holes selected successively since the beginning of the game.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
Other characterisitics of the invention will appear more clearly upon reading the following description, given solely by way of example and made with reference to the attached drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows schematically a first embodiment of a device with four hands according to the invention.
FIG. 2 shows schematically "position" and "operating mode" selection and display means according to the invention.
FIG. 3 shows schematically electronic counting, storing, processing and control means according to the invention.
FIG. 4 shows in a very schematic way a known watch movement able to be used to form a golf counter according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 shows a first example of a golf counter according to the invention formed using the watch movement of FIG 4.
FIG. 6 shows a second example of a golf counter according to the invention formed using the watch movement Of FIG. 4.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In FIG. 1 the assembly of the display means according to the invention are shown by way of example. Said display means comprise four hands driven independently of each other by four stepping motors shown in the following FIGS. These four hands work on four distinct zones of the dial.
Central hand 4 enables the "position" to be displayed and works with the external part of
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