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US 2015/0085625 A1Published application
Stepping motor and timepiece provided with stepping motor
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuta SAITO, Yohei KAWAGUCHI
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Abstract
Disclosed is a stepping motor including a rotor, a plurality of coils and a switching mechanism. The stepping motor simultaneously or sequentially applies driving pulses to the coils to rotate the rotor by a predetermined step angle, and while the driving pulses are being applied to part of the coils, the switching mechanism switches the rest of the coils other than the part of the coils driven by the driving pulses into a high impedance state.
Claims5
A stepping motor, comprising:
- a rotor;
- a plurality of coils;
- and
- a switching mechanism, wherein
- the stepping motor simultaneously or sequentially applies driving pulses to the coils to rotate the rotor by a predetermined step angle, and
- while the driving pulses are being applied to part of the coils, the switching mechanism switches the rest of the coils other than the part of the coils driven by the driving pulses into a high impedance state.
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A timepiece, comprising:
- a stepping motor comprising:
- a stator including a stator body and coils;
- rotor stoppers each of which provided every predetermined rotation angle, the predetermined rotation angle being smaller that an angle obtained by dividing one rotation by a product of M which is an even number referring to a number of magnetization in the rotor and N which is a number referring to a number of magnetic poles in the stator;
- a driving pulse supplying circuit which applies driving pulses to the coils to rotate the rotor by the predetermined rotation angle;
- and
- a controller which controls the driving pulse supplying circuit;
- hands;
- and
- a gear train mechanism which is coupled with the hands and which is driven in response to rotation of the stepping motor,
- wherein
- the stator body includes a rotor which includes a cylindrical rotor magnet having an even number of magnetization in a radial direction and a rotor accommodating space which accommodates the rotor, the stator body having an odd number of magnetic poles along a periphery of the rotor, and
- the coils are magnetically connected with the stator body.
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