Abstract:
An electronic timepiece includes a solar power source, a voltage stabilizer circuit that generates a constant voltage by using power supplied from the solar power source, and a control circuit that clocks the time by driving a rotating body at first hand operation speed and at second hand operation speed which is faster than the first hand operation speed. The control circuit selects a voltage of the solar power source so as to drive the rotating body in a case of the first hand operation speed, and selects at least any one voltage of the constant voltage and the voltage of the solar power source so as to drive the rotating body in a case of the second hand operation speed.
Abstract:
There is provided an electronic timepiece that includes a solar panel which receives light to generate electric power, is operated with the electric power supplied from a secondary battery charged with output voltage of the solar panel, and includes a normal mode in which clock display is performed on a display unit and a power saving mode in which clock display on the display unit is stopped, based on illuminance detection of the solar panel, the electronic timepiece including: a mode control unit which switches cycles of the illuminance detection, by setting a cycle of the illuminance detection of the normal mode as a first cycle (for example, one minute), and a cycle of the illuminance detection of the power saving mode as a second cycle (for example, two seconds).
Abstract:
There is provided a movement including a center wheel & pinion that drives a minute hand, a second wheel & pinion that is arranged coaxially with a center axle of the center wheel & pinion, a first light emitting element that is arranged on one side in an axial direction of the center axle with respect to the center wheel & pinion and the second wheel & pinion, and a first light receiving element that is arranged on the other side in the axial direction of the center axle across the second wheel & pinion, and that detects light emitted from the first light emitting element. The center wheel & pinion has a first center wheel transmittable portion through which the light emitted from the first light emitting element is transmittable, and a second center wheel transmittable portion which is disposed on a rotation trajectory of the first center wheel transmittable portion and through which the light emitted from the first light emitting element is transmittable. The second wheel & pinion has a first second wheel transmittable portion which is disposed on the rotation trajectory of the first center wheel transmittable portion and the second center wheel transmittable portion when viewed in the axial direction of the center axle and through which the light emitted from the first light emitting element is transmittable.
Abstract:
An electronic timepiece of the invention is configured to compare a no-illuminance no-operation period (a period in which no light is incident on a solar panel and a state in which no operation is performed in an operating unit continues), with a predetermined first transfer period (for example, 2 hours) when the time measurement action is not in execution in the chronograph mode or the timer mode, and compare the no-illuminance no-operation period with a predetermined second transfer period (for example, 72 hours) longer then the first transfer period when the time measurement action is in execution in a chronograph mode or the timer mode. The electronic timepiece is transferred to the power save mode when the no-illuminance no-operation period reaches the transfer period and stops a display action on a display unit.
Abstract:
There is provided a timepiece capable of selecting a timepiece mode and a chronograph mode. The timepiece includes an hour hand and a minute hand which indicate a time in a case where the timepiece mode is selected, and a main control unit that performs control so as to start time measurement by simultaneously starting hand operations of the hour hand and the minute hand in a case where the chronograph mode is selected, to indicate a measured time at the time of stopping by stopping the hand operation of the hour hand, and to continue the time measurement by continuing the hand operation of the minute hand.
Abstract:
A movement includes a second light emitting element, a second light receiving element, a second wheel & pinion that drives a second hand and that has a first second wheel transmittable portion and a second second wheel transmittable portion through which light is transmittable. A control unit detects a position of the second wheel & pinion by causing the second light receiving element to receive the transmitted light emitted from the second light emitting element and transmitted through the first second wheel transmittable portion or the second second wheel transmittable portion. A second detection wheel has a second detection wheel transmittable portion through which the transmitted light is transmittable. The control unit detects a transmitting time point that the transmitted light is transmitted through the first second wheel transmittable portion or transmitted concurrently the second second wheel transmittable portion and the second detection wheel transmittable portion.
Abstract:
An electronic timepiece includes a time display unit which includes a first time display unit and a second time display unit that display time; a control unit which outputs a first change command for changing first time that is displayed by the first time display unit into time based on received time information which is information on time, and outputs a second change command for changing second time that is displayed by the second time display unit into time before change which is time displayed in the first time display unit before the first time is changed into time based on the time information; and a display drive unit which changes the first time, based on the first change command that is output from the control unit, and changes the second time, based on the second change command that is output from the control unit.
Abstract:
An electronic device includes at least an acquisition unit, an input unit, a time correction amount calculation unit, and a transmitting unit. A timepiece includes at least a receiving unit, a power storage unit, a drive unit, and a control unit. The input unit receives an input of the time displayed by the display unit of the timepiece. The time correction amount calculation unit calculates a time correction amount for correcting the time of the timepiece from a difference between the time, the input of which is received by the input unit and the current time acquired by the acquisition unit. The transmitting unit transmits the time correction amount to the timepiece by using light. The receiving unit receives the time correction amount. The power storage unit stores electricity by using power converted from the light. The drive unit drives the indicating hand. The control unit corrects the time displayed by the indicating hand, based on the time correction amount received, by the receiving unit . The control unit controls a power storage period in the power storage unit and a receiving period in the receiving unit so as to receive the time correction amount in the receiving period.
Abstract:
There is provided a movement which can reduce power consumption when a hand position is detected.The movement includes a center wheel & pinion that drives a minute hand, a minute detection wheel in which a gear ratio of the center wheel & pinion with respect to the minute detection wheel is set to 1/M by using M as an integer, a first light emitting element, and a first light receiving element. The center wheel & pinion has a pair of center wheel transmittable portions which are disposed on the same rotation trajectory, and through which light emitted from the first light emitting element is transmittable. The minute detection wheel has the N-number of minute detection wheel transmittable portions which are disposed on the same rotation trajectory, and through which light emitted from the first light emitting element is transmittable. The minute detection wheel transmittable portions are disposed at an interval of 360°/N in a circumferential direction of the minute detection wheel. A pair of the center wheel transmittable portions are disposed in parallel at an unequal angular interval in the circumferential direction of a center axle of the center wheel & pinion. An angular interval of the center wheel transmittable portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of the center axle of the center wheel & pinion is set to magnification of 360°/(M×N).
Abstract:
To receive data normally in communication by an optical signal by an electronic device which transmits data even when a transmission frequency differs. An electronic device transmits a transmission-frequency measurement signal for measuring a transmission frequency of data and transmits the data by using a light source which transmits an optical signal. An electronic timepiece specifies the transmission frequency of data based on the transmission-frequency measurement signal received by a solar battery which receives the optical signal and receiving the data by the solar battery based on the specified transmission frequency.