摘要:
An inspection circuit for facilitating the inspection of the components of an electronic timepiece at the time that same is manufactured is provided. The inspection circuit is provided in an electronic timepiece having oscillator circuitry for producing high frequency time standard signals and divider circuitry for dividing down the high frequency time standard signal and producing a lower frequency time standard signal. The electronic timepiece further includes timekeeping counter circuitry for producing timekeeping signals and a digital display for displaying time in response to the timekeeping signals being applied thereto. The inspection circuit of the instant invention is particularly characterized by an auto-clear circuit coupled to the timekeeping counter and divider circuitry for detecting a power-on condition and in response thereto, applying a reset signal to the divider and timekeeping counter circuitry to thereby reset the counts thereof. The inspection circuit is coupled intermediate the divider timekeeping counter and divider circuitry and is adapted to receive the reset signal and apply to the digital display a first inspection signal to permit a first inspection of the digital display to be effected until the flower frequency time standard signal is applied to the inspection circuit.
摘要:
A solid state timepiece having a chain of series connected counters with clock pulses being applied to the first counter in the chain. A reset system is responsive to reset signals and is coupled to the counters for selective resetting of the counters upon application of predetermined reset signals. A decoder system independent of the resetting of the counters detects the state of the reset signals during a predetermined time duration and produces a control signal upon application of selected reset signal states. A control system provides internal control of the timepiece only upon application of the control signal.
摘要:
A method of measuring accuracy of a watch including a visual display device, including: storing a first instant, at which the display is in a first display position corresponding to a first image, with a corresponding time reference source; determining a first display value for the first image and stored in a storage in correlation with the first instant; storing, after a determined time interval, a second instant, at which the display is in a second display position corresponding to a second image, with the corresponding source; determining a second display value for the second image and stored in the storage in correlation with the second instant; and calculating displaying on a viewing device the variation in rate of the display.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for adjusting the frequency of piezoelectric crystal oscillator. The effective frequency of the oscillator is adjusted (trimmed) by periodically inhibiting pulses to the divider stage.The pulse inhibit circuit includes a nonvolatile programmable read-only-memory (ROM) to store binary complement information corresponding to the number of oscillator pulses to be suppressed.A counter is periodically preset with the binary complement information and the count advances in response to oscillator pulses. The difference count between the complement number and the counter's maximum count controls the number of pulses periodically suppressed.During manufacture/assembly of the timepiece, the ROM is programmed to contain the desired complement information.
摘要:
The invention relates to an electronic timepiece in which an input terminal of the integrated circuit is used as an output terminal. During the manufacturing of the timepiece it is important to check the running of the frequency of the oscillator and the operation of at least part of the frequency divider chain. However, in a timepiece, the places available for obtaining measurements could be very limited, and the timepiece does not generally have an output terminal adapted to connect the signal to be measured to an external counter. The purpose of the invention is to utilize an already existing input terminal as an output terminal for permitting a precise and rapid checking of the frequency of the oscillator by measuring, on that terminal, a signal of intermediate frequency delivered by the frequency divider chain. A decoupling circuit permits the terminal to be utilized as an output terminal because it is arranged such that a logic signal delivered to its input is transmitted to its output to the exclusion of the signal of intermediate frequency.
摘要:
An electronic timepiece comprises a reference oscillator, a counter for counting reference clock signals from the reference oscillator to obtain a time count signal, and a display device for displaying a time count value of the counter, in which there is provided an input terminal detachably connected to an external data supply device to permit a preset initial count value data to be inputted from the outside. A master device for the timepiece includes an output terminal detachably connected to the input terminal of the timepiece. The preset initial count value data is supplied to the counter of the timepiece through the output terminal which is detachably connected to the input terminal of the timepiece.
摘要:
An apparatus for testing the accuracy of a timepiece comprising a television camera for converting the time displayed into an electrical signal, a means for converting the electrical signal into a digital signal, and a processing means for storing the digital signal and comparing the digital signal to a signal corresponding to a time standard. In operation, the time displayed on the timepiece is compared to the time standard at two different times and the difference between the time standard and the time displayed of the two measurements is compared.
摘要:
For measuring the timing of quartz crystal timepieces there is provided a microphone pickup which is adapted to pick up vibrations from the casing of the timepiece and to convert these mechanical vibrations into an electronic or electrical signal which is amplified and fed to a crystal filter, the filtered signal then being further amplified and supplied to a counter. This enables the vibrations generated within the casing by a quartz crystal to be measured and the accuracy of the timepiece to be checked.
摘要:
A device for measuring the accuracy of a mechanical watch includes a time reference source, a calculating mechanism, and another data processing unit. The time reference source is formed by an internal time reference source, or by a receiving and processing mechanism arranged to receive and process signals transmitted by an external time source to permanently update a repeater clock internal to the device. The calculating mechanism is arranged to calculate time differences between display values, and/or between time reference points provided by the time reference source, and to calculate a variation in rate. The another data processing unit is arranged to store and process at least one variation in rate calculated by the calculating mechanism, and/or a viewing mechanism arranged to display at least one variation in rate calculated by the calculating mechanism.