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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2010
Kazuo Kato, Chiba, JP;
Akira Takakura, Chiba, JP;
Kenji Ogasawara, Chiba, JP;
Saburo Manaka, Chiba, JP;
Kazumi Sakumoto, Chiba, JP;
Hiroshi Shimizu, Chiba, JP;
Tomohiro Ihashi, Chiba, JP;
Keishi Honmura, Chiba, JP;
Takanori Hasegawa, Chiba, JP;
Kosuke Yamamoto, Chiba, JP;
Eriko Noguchi, Chiba, JP;
Kazuo Kato, Chiba, JP;
Akira Takakura, Chiba, JP;
Kenji Ogasawara, Chiba, JP;
Saburo Manaka, Chiba, JP;
Kazumi Sakumoto, Chiba, JP;
Hiroshi Shimizu, Chiba, JP;
Tomohiro Ihashi, Chiba, JP;
Keishi Honmura, Chiba, JP;
Takanori Hasegawa, Chiba, JP;
Kosuke Yamamoto, Chiba, JP;
Eriko Noguchi, Chiba, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., , JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a chronograph timepiece whose chronograph hands are electrically drive-controlled and mechanically zero-restoring-controlled, wherein it possible to perform a normal operation at the time of start operation and reset operation. After a mechanical control unit releases the setting of chronograph hands in response to the start operation of a start/stop button, a contact portion is placed in a start state, and an electrical control unit starts a time measurement operation to electrically hand-movement-drive the chronograph hands, and, after a contact portion is placed in a reset state in response to a reset operation of a reset button and the electrical control unit electrically resets the time measurement operation, the mechanical control unit mechanically zero-restores and sets the chronograph hands.