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US 10,566,979 B2Granted
Oscillator, electronic apparatus, and base station
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKensaku Isohata, Takayuki Kikuchi, Takemi Yonezawa
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Abstract
An oscillator includes an oscillation source, multiple temperature control elements, and a controller adapted to perform control to suppress an increase in current consumed in one or more of the temperature control elements during at least part of a period from when operation of the oscillation source initiates to when the oscillation source reaches a specified temperature.
Claims7
An oscillator comprising:
- an oscillation source;
- a first heat generation element;
- a second heat generation element;
- and
- a control circuit configured to perform the following control:
- for a specified period of time from when a power voltage is supplied to the control circuit, a current that is caused to flow to the first heat generation element is controlled based on a difference between a temperature inside the oscillator and a setting temperature and no current flows to the second heat generation element, and
- after the specified period of time elapses from when the power voltage is supplied to the control circuit, currents that are caused to flow to the first heat generation element and the second heat generation element are controlled based on the difference between the temperature inside the oscillator and the setting temperature.
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A method of controlling an oscillator that includes an oscillation source;
- a first heat generation element;
- a second heat generation element;
- and a control circuit, the method comprising:
- for a specified period of time from when a power voltage is supplied to the control circuit, controlling a current that is caused to flow to the first heat generation element based on a difference between a temperature inside the oscillator and a setting temperature, wherein no current flows to the second heat generation element, and
- after the specified period of time elapses from when the power voltage is supplied to the control circuit, controlling currents that are caused to flow to the first heat generation element and the second heat generation element based on the difference between the temperature inside the oscillator and the setting temperature.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.