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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 29, 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
In a chronograph timepiece in which the chronograph hands are electrically rotated by a motor drive pulse and are mechanically zero-restoring-controlled, a basic drive control unit controls a motor so as to drive the chronograph hands when it is detected by a contact portion and a setting releasing detection portion that the setting of the chronograph hands by a setting mechanism has been released.