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Electronic unit, and control method for electronic unit

US6327225A · kind A · utility

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19Claims
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Filing dateAug 11, 2000
Grant dateDec 4, 2001
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Expiry dateAug 11, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG04G19/08
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In an electronic unit having a plurality of motors, a reduction in power-supply voltage is suppressed even if the plurality of motors are driven, and a difference in hand moving timing is allowed to be made inconspicuous. An electronic timepiece having a seconds motor for driving a seconds hand and an hour-and-minute motor for driving hour and minute hands, which serves as an electronic unit, moves the seconds hand and the hour and minute hands such that, when a seconds auxiliary pulse signal is output to the seconds motor at the hand moving timing of the seconds hand, control is applied in a way in which neither magnetic-field detection around the hour-and-minute motor nor the rotation detection of the hour-and-minute motor is performed at the hand moving timing of the hour and minute hands, and an hour-and-minute auxiliary pulse signal is output to the hour-and-minute motor.

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