Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stepping motor control circuit, movement, and analogue electronic timepiece
- Patent Title (中): 步进电机控制电路,机芯及模拟电子表
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Application No.: US13737032Application Date: 2013-01-09
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Publication No.: US09086685B2Publication Date: 2015-07-21
- Inventor: Kosuke Yamamoto , Akira Takakura , Kenji Ogasawara , Saburo Manaka , Kazumi Sakumoto , Keishi Honmura
- Applicant: Seiko Instruments Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
- Current Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Adams & Wilks
- Priority: JP2012-003417 20120111; JP2012-244674 20121106
- Main IPC: H02P8/00
- IPC: H02P8/00 ; G04B19/04 ; G04C3/14 ; H02P8/38

Abstract:
A control circuit selects a drive pulse group corresponding to the detected voltage of a power cell from among plural drive pulse groups each including plural types of main drive pulses, and selects a drive pulse according to the detected condition of rotation of a stepping motor from among main drive pulses included in the selected drive pulse group or a correction drive pulse having larger energy than the main drive pulses. When the control circuit selects a main drive pulse initially by selecting the drive pulse group, the control circuit selects the main drive pulse having the largest energy in the selected drive pulse group. A drive pulse group selection circuit drives the stepping motor by the main drive pulse in the drive pulse group selected by the control circuit or the correction drive pulse via a main drive pulse output circuit and a correction drive pulse output circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130182542A1 STEPPING MOTOR CONTROL CIRCUIT, MOVEMENT, AND ANALOGUE ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE Public/Granted day:2013-07-18
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