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Correcting device for an electronic watch

US3931703A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 18, 1974
Grant dateJan 13, 1976
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Expiry dateJan 18, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG04G5/02
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for correcting running of an electronic watch comprises two contactors acting on respective bistable circuits in turn acting on a combinatory circuit controlling a counter which provides binary correction information to an inhibitor circuit. The latter is arranged to inhibit a number of pulses of a pulse generator having a predetermined nominal frequency above a given value, to set the frequency at said given value prior to division to provide accurate clock pulses fed to a device for indicating the time. Successive actuation of respective contactors corresponds to increasing or decreasing the number of inhibited pulses from an approximate number stored in a programmable memory.

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