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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 16, 2023
Applicant:
Seiko Watch Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SEIKO WATCH KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04C 9/08 (2006.01); G04B 19/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G04C 9/08 (2013.01); G04B 19/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
An object of the invention is to prevent a positional deviation of a hand while reducing power consumption. A watch includes: a plurality of hands; a plurality of motors configured to drive or brake the plurality of hands, respectively; a pulse generation unit configured to supply, to the plurality of motors, a drive pulse for driving the hands and a lock pulse for braking the hands; and a control unit configured to control an operation mode including a normal hand movement mode and a tactile read mode, and the pulse generation unit supplies the lock pulse to the motors when the control unit shifts the operation mode to the tactile read mode.