Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Jinro Motoki

Mitsuhiro Murata

Singo Ichikawa

Hideyuki Kawashima

Kenzi Miyasaka

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Mituo Oooka

Masae Ohkubo

Yuri Inoue

Yoshiaki Kato

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

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.

Pulse motor driving system for use in a timepiece. The driving system has a single phase coil and permanent rotor which are stepped in a forward direction by a forward rotation driving voltage. The voltage is composed of a plurality of pulses having the same polarity. Provision is made for a control circuit connected between a frequency divider and pulse motor driving circuit. The control circuit applies a plurality of driving voltage pulses for rotating the rotor of the pulse motor in the reverse direction. The control circuit also can provide accelerated pulses to the movement of the rotor in the reverse direction thereby stepping the rotor in the reverse direction. This enables the lag of gaining hands thereby correcting the time display in preciseness.

Pulse motor driving system for use in a timepiece

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Hoya, Japan

Jinro Motoki