Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stepping motor controller and analog electronic timepiece
- Patent Title (中): 步进电机控制器和模拟电子表
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Application No.: US12653539Application Date: 2009-12-15
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Publication No.: US08351303B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Kenji Ogasawara , Akira Takakura , Saburo Manaka , Keishi Honmura , Takanori Hasegawa , Kosuke Yamamoto , Kazumi Sakumoto , Kazuo Kato
- Applicant: Kenji Ogasawara , Akira Takakura , Saburo Manaka , Keishi Honmura , Takanori Hasegawa , Kosuke Yamamoto , Kazumi Sakumoto , Kazuo Kato
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
- Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Adams & Wilks
- Priority: JP2008-319400 20081216
- Main IPC: H02P8/38
- IPC: H02P8/38 ; G04B19/04

Abstract:
An invention allows a stepping motor to be reliably driven to rotate when initializing the driving and allows power consumption of the stepping motor to be reduced. The controller, when initializing the driving (for example, replacing a battery), controls a main drive pulse generator to drive a stepping motor using a main drive pulse having a maximum energy and sets the generation cycle of a pulse down control signal of a pulse down counter for pulsing down the main drive pulse to a first cycle to drive the stepping motor, and when pulsing down the main drive pulse to that having a predetermined energy, changes the generation cycle of the pulse down control signal of the pulse down counter to a second cycle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100149924A1 Stepping motor controller and analog electronic timepiece Public/Granted day:2010-06-17
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