摘要:
An autonomous low power consumption electrical apparatus that has a supply device (8) comprising a single photo-voltaic cell, an electrical accumulator (7), and a voltage booster (10, 11, TR1, TR3) connected between the power source (9) and the accumulator for charging the accumulator. The voltage booster is controlled by a pulse signal having a predetermined frequency. To allow the apparatus to start when the accumulator is completely discharged, the pulse signal can be generated, at least temporarily, by an oscillator that can operate at a very low voltage, that is, the voltage of the single photo-voltaic cell. When the apparatus is a timepiece, the oscillator (2) can be replaced by the oscillator of the time-keeping circuit (1) of the timepiece as soon as the accumulator (9) is sufficiently charged.
摘要:
The instant invention relates to a piezo-electric motor. The motor comprises:a support (2)a stator (8) integral with the support (2)a rotor (30) rotatably mounted with respect to the support, the rotor being capable of being displaced in a displacement plane (Pdm) about a geometric axis of rotation (XI)transmission means (36) to transmit the vibratory movement of the stator (8) to the rotor (30) and to rotate it andmeans to support (40) the rotor on the stator the rotor being characterized in that the stator (8) has vibratory movement having velocity components essentially normal to the displacement plane (Pdm) of the rotor (30), the stator (8) cooperating with means for converting the vibratory movement of the stator in order to rotate the rotor.
摘要:
The converter described comprises a generator (2) having a rotor (3) driven by a spring (1) via a gear-train (4), and means (11) for electrically braking the rotor (3). In one form of embodiment of the converter, the mean rotational speed of the rotor (3) is adjusted to a predetermined set speed by a control circuit (12) which periodically cuts out the braking means (11) in response to a reference signal having a period equal to the ratio between a predetermined rotational angle of the rotor (3) and the set speed. The control circuit (12) cuts the braking means (11) in again after a length of time which varies in response to a signal generated by a circuit (26, 27) for comparing the real angular position of the rotor (3) at the beginning of each period of the refernce signal with the angular position it should be in when running at the set speed.The converter may for instance be used in a timepiece having hands (9) that are also driven by the spring (1).
摘要:
The control circuit comprises means for measuring current flow in the motor winding including an auxiliary transistor and means to form periodically a current mirror from such auxiliary transistor and one of the transistors coupled to the winding for applying thereto energization pulses, i.e. motor drive pulses, catch-up pulses or check pulses.
摘要:
The portable device (10) is used for determining horizontal and vertical positions. It includes a pressure sensor altimeter (15) calibrated to a predetermined initial altitude, a GPS signal receiver (12) arranged to receive, via an antenna (11), signals originating from several satellites (20) in order to calculate position data of the device, a processing unit (14) receiving the position data from the receiver (12) and an altitude value from the altimeter (15), and display means (16) for the horizontal and vertical positions of the device processed and provided by the processing unit. The processing unit sends the GPS receiver a signal corresponding to the altitude value of the calibrated altimeter to enable the receiver to determine, using the altitude value, the position data of the device. A memory (13) including cartographic data and associated with the GPS receiver (12) can provide the precise data to the processing unit (14) in particular for calibrating the altimeter.
摘要:
This method for establishing the pressure-diameter relationship of an artery employs the measurement results from a non-invasive sensor (3) of the artery diameter, for instance of the humeral artery, and from a non-invasive sensor (4) of the blood pressure applied for instance to the end of a finger. The measurement locations being separated by a distance .DELTA.x, the method provides for the correction of the pressure measurements as if such measurements had been effected at the location of the diameter measurements. The method further provides a correction which takes into account the mechanical properties of the artery, defined by the parameters .alpha., .beta., .gamma., . . . and which are calculated, if necessary by successive iterations, until the pressure-diameter curve appears free from all measurement anomalies (hysteresis). The pressure-diameter relationship enables the calculation of the mechanical properties of the artery, in particular by compliance curves and the propagation velocity as a function of the pressure.
摘要:
There is disclosed a portable electronic instrument (1) including a case (2), at least one electronic unit (72, 74) housed inside the case, and at least a first input and/or output terminal (A; B) accessible from the exterior of the case and including an electrically conductive element (100) which is mounted so as to be mobile with respect to the case. The input and/or output terminal is adapted to be electrically connected to an input and/or output terminal (72A, 74A; 72B, 74B) of said electronic unit via a transmission line (I/OA; I/OB) and for allowing transmission of electric signals on the transmission line through the connecting element. The connecting element can occupy a first or second position in which the input and/or output terminal is respectively uncoupled from or coupled to the input and/or output terminal of the electronic unit. The portable electronic instrument further includes a transmission gate (TGA; TGB) inserted on the transmission line between the input and/or output terminal and the input and/or output terminal of the electronic unit, said transmission gate having a transmitting and non-transmitting state allowing the input and/or output terminal to be respectively coupled to or uncoupled from said input and/or output terminal of the electronic unit. A protective element (TVSA, TVSB) against electrostatic charges is also inserted on the transmission line between the input and/or output terminal and the transmission gate.
摘要翻译:公开了一种便携式电子仪器(1),其包括壳体(2),容纳在壳体内的至少一个电子单元(72,74)以及至少可从第一输入和/或输出端子(A; B) 壳体的外部并且包括安装成相对于壳体移动的导电元件(100)。 输入和/或输出端子适于电连接到输入和/或输出端子(72A,72A,72B SUB 所述电子单元经由传输线(I / O A I / O B B))的传输,并且用于允许 传输线上的电信号通过连接元件。 连接元件可以占据第一或第二位置,其中输入和/或输出端子分别与电子单元的输入和/或输出端子分离或耦合到电子单元的输入和/或输出端子。 便携式电子仪器还包括插入在输入和/或输出端子之间的传输线上的传输门(TG A,B B B B)和输入和/或输出 所述传输门具有发送和非发送状态,允许所述输入和/或输出端分别耦合到所述电子单元的所述输入和/或输出端子或从所述输入端子输出端子。 防静电电荷的保护元件(TVS A,TVS B B)也插入在输入和/或输出端子与传输门之间的传输线上。
摘要:
The receiver includes: a correlation stage (7) formed of several correlation channels (7′) for receiving intermediate signals (IF) in order to correlate them, in operating channel control loops, with the carrier frequency and specific code replicas of visible emitting satellites to be searched and tracked, each channel having a correlator (8) in which at least one integrator counter (28, 29, 30, 31) provides, at the end of each determined integration period of the correlated signals, a binary output word whose value allows detection of the presence or absence of the visible satellite to be searched and tracked; and a microprocessor for processing the data drawn, after correlation, from the radio-frequency signals. The microprocessor configures at least one unused channel placed in parallel with one of the operating channels for searching and/or tracking the same visible satellite, the unused channel being configured so that the integration period of its integrator counter is different from that of the integrator counter of the operating channel.
摘要:
The method and the device described are intended to avoid the dissipation of electrical energy that occurs in the coil of a stepping motor when the coil is short-circuited permanently between two drive pulses. The method comprises short-circuiting the coil at the end (t1) of the drive pulse, then putting it on open circuit at the instant (t2) when the current (Ic) flowing through it during the short-circuit becomes zero, and short-circuiting the coil again at the instant (t3) when the voltage induced in it by the rotation of the rotor while the coil is on open circuit becomes zero or reaches a predetermined value (Ud). The device is designed to carry out the method. The invention is applicable to the control of stepping motors of the type for instance that are fitted in electronic timepieces having a hand display.