Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Hideyuki Kawashima

Singo Ichikawa

Mitsuhiro Murata

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Kenzi Miyasaka

Jinro Motoki

Mituo Oooka

Masae Ohkubo

Yuri Inoue

Tomomi Murakami

Sadao Masubuchi

Masafumi Yokoyama

Masaaki Matsunaga

Akira Shiota

Makoto Yoshida

Masamichi Yamauchi

Yoshifumi Mochizuki

Shingo Ono

Toshiyuki Inage

Yasuhiro Hayashi

Fujio Ishida

Junichi Miyata

Hideki Arai

Tomoshige Inuyama

An optical printer device which includes an exposure device which makes relative movements, in a predetermined direction, with respect to a photosensitive body. The optical printer also has a plurality of first, second and third light-emitting elements which emit lights of a first, second and third colors. These light-emitting elements are mounted on a first, second and third mounting substrates, independent of one another, which correspond to the first, second and third colors.

Optical printer device that forms color images

Document/image data reader

In an electronic timepiece equipped with a liquid crystal display, means are provided whereby the user can input a freely selected sequence of musical notes to be stored in a memory circuit, to thereby compose a melody, and whereby this melody can be subsequently emitted in audible form when coincidence occurs between a preset alarm time and the current time. Visible monitoring of information specifying the pitch and duration of each note is enabled when a melody is being input, by means of liquid crystal display patterns, together with audible monitoring.

Electronic timepiece having a system for audible generation of a melody

An analog quartz timepiece having a manually operated external control member, and a correction signal generation circuit controlled by the external control member to generate low speed and high speed correction signals when the external control member is actuated for a short period of time and for a predetermined time interval, respectively, by which a stepping motor is driven at a selected speed to perform time correction. The timepiece also includes a click mechanism operative to shift an hours hand step-wise from any optional position without affecting a minutes hand and a seconds hand. The timepiece further includes a seconds zero-reset mechanism operative to reset the seconds hand to zero.

Analog quartz timepiece

A function selection circuit for multi-function timepiece which has a timekeeping circuit, a display device to display output data from the timekeeping circuit, and a function circuit to provide a plurality of functions which can be selected by an external control member in a predetermined sequence. The function selection circuit has a circuit means controlled by the external control member to provide an output to enable a selection of time correction mode from said plurality of functions in the predetermined sequence.

Function selection circuit for multi-function timepiece

An analog quartz timepiece having a manually operated external control member, and a correction signal generation circuit controlled by the external control member to generate low speed and high speed correction signals when the external control member is actuated for a short period of time and for a predetermined time interval, respectively, by which a stepping motor is driven at a selected speed to perform time correction. The timepiece alo includes a click mechanism operative to shift an hours hand step-wise from any optional position without affecting a minutes hand and a seconds hand. The timepiece further includes a seconds zero-reset mechanism operative to reset the seconds hand to zero.

An adjustable circuit for an electronic timepiece including a crystal oscillator, a frequency divider circuit, a display and a controlable means for increasing and decreasing the output frequency of the frequency divider circuit. The increasing and decreasing means includes a digital adder and a digital subtractor and a plurality of controlable gates for enabling the digital adder or subtractor to increase or decrease the output frequency of the frequency divider.

Adjustable circuit for an electronic timepiece

An electronic timepiece provided with a liquid-crystal cell in a grounded casing, a common electrode on one side thereof and a segmented pattern electrode on the other side has a transparent shield electrode which is grounded to the casing and overlies the major part of the cell, with the exception of at least one window registering with a detecting electrode positioned on the glass cover of the casing. An ungrounded electrode underneath the window is pulsed by the electronic clockwork, the pulses being picked up by the detecting electrode and delivered to an evaluating device for measuring the operating rate of the timepiece. In one embodiment, two such windows associated with respective detecting electrodes are provided, one window registering with the common electrode at a location remote from all the segments of the pattern electrode, the other window being aligned with a coplanar extension of one of the segments of a digital array which is intermittently energized in the course of a pattern-forming cycle; the evaluator distinguishes between periods when the pulses picked up by the detecting electrodes are in phase and in phase opposition.

Monitoring system for digital electronic timepiece

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Higashikurume, Japan

Hideyuki Kawashima