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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masami Okano, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Zexel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
368108 ; 371 62 ;
Abstract
A compact watch dog timer circuit which includes a pulse period determining circuit (1) for generating a timer reset pulse if a period of an input pulse from an external machine falls within a tolerance range or beyond an upper limit of the tolerance range and no timer reset pulse if the period falls below a lower limit of the tolerance range; and a timer (2) for generating a signal for restoring the external machine to a predetermined condition when no timer reset pulse is fed from the pulse period determining circuit within a timer period which is set corresponding to the tolerance range.