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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:
Aug. 08, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1994
Kazuya Sugita, Itami, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A watch-dog timer circuit including a counter which counts clock pulses of a microcomputer and a timer circuit which is refreshed in every period of the clock pulse, thereby to generate a request signal to reset a CPU by means of the counter when the counter overflows or underflows, and generate a request signal to reset the CPU by means of the timer circuit when the clock pulse stops, in order to monitor both uncontrollable operation of the CPU and the stop of oscillation of the clock pulses, and the micro computer equipped with the watch-dog timer circuit.
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