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High rate, bidirectional drive for a bipole stepping motor watch
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Inventors: Kamens, Bruce;
Assignee: Timex Corporation (Waterbury, CT)
Primary Examiner: Roskoski; Bernard
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Crutcher; William C.
An improved drive circuit for a quartz analog wristwatch having a bipole stepping motor with a drive coil, a power supply, a gear train having a plurality of gears driven by the rotor, a plurality of output members with hands rotatably driven by said gears, the rotor, gears, output members and hands together comprising a rotating system, wherein the improvement comprises a low impedance drive coil, first circuit means arrange to generate periodic pulses of alternating polarity at a normal timekeeping frequency, second circuit means arranged to supply successive drive pulses of alternating polarity to the coil at an intermediate frequency on the order of 300 to 600 pulses per second selected to sustain and synchronize the rotating system at a substantially constant angular velocity, and third circuit means arranged to modulate the periodic pulses generated by the first circuit means so as to chop them at a high frequency on the order of 4 kilohertz at a 25 to 50 percent duty cycle selected with regard to the low impedance coil, so that energy which would otherwise be consumed by the coil is reduced during normal timekeeping. A braking pulse of 22 to 30 milliseconds in duration is applied to stop the high speed rotating system at the conclusion of time setting. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
In a quartz analog wristwatch having a manually attached switch and having a bipole stepping motor with a rotor and a drive coil, a power supply, a gear train having a plurality of gears driven by said rotor, a plurality of output members with hands rotatably driven by said gears, said rotor, gears, output members and hands together comprising a rotating system, and an integrated circuit connected to said power supply and supplying drive pulses to said coil, the improvement comprising: first circuit means arranged to generate periodic pulses of alternating polarity at a normal timekeeping frequency, second circuit means responsive to said manually actuated switch and arranged to generate and supply successive drive pulses of alternating polarity to said coil at an intermediate frequency selected to sustain and synchronize said rotating system at a substantially constant angular velocity, and third circuit means arranged to modulate said periodic pulses generated by said first circuit means to chop said periodic pulses at a high frequency and to supply a pulse train of said chopped pulses to said drive coil, said drive coil having a low impedance selected with respect to said pulse train, whereby energy which would otherwise be consumed by said low impedance coil is reduced during normal timekeeping, said low impedance drive coil having between 4000 and 8000 turns and a resistance in the range of 500 ohms and 1500 ohms.
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The combination according to claim 1, wherein said high frequency is on the order of 4 kilohertz and wherein said periodic pulses are modulated with a duty cycle between 25 and 50 percent.
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The combination according to claim 1, wherein said intermediate frequency is selected to provide said successive pulses at an intermediate frequency in a range between 300 and 600 pulses per second.
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The combination according to claim 1, wherein said second circuit means is further adapted to supply a short pre-positioning pulse of polarity and duration selected to rock said rotor in a forward direction and subsequently to supply said successive drive pulses to cause said rotating system to rotate in a reverse direction at a substantially constant angular velocity
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