摘要:
A self-exciting electronic circuit for driving the mechanical rate element of a time-keeping device including means to vary the width of the drive pulse to compensate for amplitude differences caused by temperature or voltage changes.
摘要:
The specification discloses an electronic clockwork drive in which an oscillator, which is oscillatable relative to a stationary coil, has two circumferentially spaced magnet systems, each comprising two circumferentially spaced respectively oppositely polarized magnetic axes and each having an airgap. As the oscillator oscillates, each magnet system induces actuating voltage pulses in the coil when the respective magnet system is substantially centered over the coil and moving in a respective direction. The voltage pulses induced in the coil actuate a coil energizing circuit to supply a pulse of current to the coil, which delivers a drive impulse to the oscillator. Each magnet system thus develops a single drive impulse on the oscillator during each period of oscillation of the oscillator.
摘要:
AN ELECTRONICALLY POWERED CLOCK HAVING THREE MAGNET MEANS CONCENTRICALLY FIXED TO A BALANCE WHEEL AND THREE COILS MOUNTED RESPECTIVELY COAXIALLY WITH THE MAGNET MEANS WHEN SAID BALANCE WHEEL IS IN ITS ZERO POSITION. THE SERIES-CONNECTED OUTSIDE COILS SERVING AS EXCITER COILS FOR A TRANSISTOR SWITCHING ARRANGEMENT, THE INSIDE COIL SERVING AS DRIVE COIL FOR THE BALANCE WHEEL, AND THE MAGNET MEANS HAVING SUCH DIMENSIONS AND SUCH POSITIONS WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER THAT EVERY MAGNET MEANS COMING
AWAY FROM ONE COIL AND SIMULTANEOUSLY APPROACHING NEIGHBORING COIL WILL GENERATE AN EXCITATION PULSE AND AT THE SAME TIME EXPERIENCE A DRIVE PULSE.