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US 4,266,288 AGranted
Electronic timepiece
AssigneeJean-Claude Berney SA
InventorJean-Claude Berney
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Abstract
An electronic timepiece having a minute hand and an hour hand which are controlled by a control circuit of the timepiece to display and to program, in addition to their own parameters, other parameters such as date, month, second, alarm time, or other, non time-related, parameters, which can be selected by push-button or pull-switch control means.
Claims7
An electronic time piece comprising:
- means for producing time base pulses;
- means responsive to said time base pulses for producing a plurality of time signals;
- a minute hand;
- means coupled to said minute hand for producing a signal representative of the position of said minute hand;
- means responsive to a first manual action for producing a first manual command;
- means responsive to said first manual command for selecting one of said time signals;
- means responsive to said selected one of said time signals and to said minute hand position signal for producing a first comparison signal whenever said one selected time signal is unequal to said minute hand position signal;
- means responsive to said first comparison signal for producing driving pulses;
- means responsive to said driving pulses for driving said minute hand, thereby causing said minute hand to be driven to a position corresponding to said one selected time signal in response to said first manual command.
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