EP0308879B2 - Rouage à deux moteurs, en particulier pour montre réceptrice - Google Patents

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EP0308879B2
EP0308879B2 EP88115449A EP88115449A EP0308879B2 EP 0308879 B2 EP0308879 B2 EP 0308879B2 EP 88115449 A EP88115449 A EP 88115449A EP 88115449 A EP88115449 A EP 88115449A EP 0308879 B2 EP0308879 B2 EP 0308879B2
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Jürgen Allgaier
Wolfram Hodapp
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Roland Maurer
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    • G04C3/00—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means
    • G04C3/14—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means incorporating a stepping motor
    • G04C3/143—Means to reduce power consumption by reducing pulse width or amplitude and related problems, e.g. detection of unwanted or missing step
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    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C3/00—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means
    • G04C3/001—Electromechanical switches for setting or display

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  • the invention relates to a radio clock according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such a radio clock is known from EP-A 0 180 880 (corresponding to US-A 4,645,357).
  • a motor drives the part of the gear train via which the minute wheel and the hour wheel are coupled to one another, while the second wheel is assigned its own second motor.
  • each motor is assigned its own light barrier, with regard to the adjustment requirements, complex redirection light guides are required if the transmission and reception elements of the two light barriers are arranged on the same circuit board to simplify the electrical circuit should be.
  • Such a two-motor radio clock has proven itself as a consumer clock. However, it still has functional manufacturing disadvantages.
  • the adjustment of the pinhole gears is critical so that the rotation of the hour wheel coupled to the minute hand movement leads to a response of this light barrier that is precise to one motor step, so that the hour hand and the minute hand simultaneously have their reference position when the light barrier responds.
  • the movement resolution of the minute hand which is desirable for clear dial positions, is limited so that the hour hand does not rotate too long (as is necessary for winter time or time zone correction), since, on the other hand, the speed of rotation of the minute wheel is not arbitrarily increased for gearbox reasons can.
  • the power distribution is not optimal with regard to the required torques.
  • the invention has for its object to develop a radio clock of the generic type in such a way that more favorable conditions for turning the pointers into defined positions can be realized in terms of energy and time requirements and at the same time simpler possibilities for the implementation of the light barriers and for gear function tests are opened.
  • each of the motors only has to deliver a relatively low torque.
  • the hour bike is operated from its own motor, which at the same time enables a high degree of movement resolution (number of steps for further movement by an hour division) without taking into account the gear conditions of the rest of the gear train.
  • the other motor is to be designed anyway for the torque required to move the longest of all hands, the second hand, and the movement of the minute hand derived therefrom in the gear ratio 60: 1 does not represent any noticeable additional load for the other motor in these reduction conditions from the own drive of the second hand minute hand wheel part, a fine step division and thus a very precise minute display on the minute track of the watch, because moving from one minute mark to the next minute mark is resolved to 60 increments.
  • the separate drive of the hour wheel also opens up a particularly simple implementation option for the light barrier for angular position detection, because the query of the positioning of the hour indicator is not necessary for one motor step, so that simply the position of a single aperture hole in the hour wheel is queried using a compact reflex light barrier can be. Since no other wheels of the factory are included in this light barrier query, the hour wheel can be set in any angular position, regardless of the current position of any other wheels of the factory, i.e. without the need for a wheel pre-adjustment during factory assembly.
  • Transmitter and receiver of the light barriers can be mounted on a common circuit board, which also carries the other circuits, to reduce the manufacturing and assembly work, with the beam path reflectors being formed by metal mirrors on the walls of the movement housing beyond the respective sub-gear train.
  • an urgent correction of the hour display (for example for the change from summer time to winter time or to the change of time zone) can be done without impairing the momentary setting of the minute and hour hands. be carried out in an optimally short time, since this requires only the fastest possible activation of the hour wheel motor in order to carry out the corresponding number of steps. Because, accordingly, rapid advancement by 11 hours can easily be implemented, the effort of a bidirectional drive for the correction by "one hour back" is eliminated without requiring unreasonably long periods of time for this correction.
  • the gear train 11 of a radio-controlled clock 10 is constructed in a movement housing 12 essentially with a floating bearing on a carrier plate 13 with axial play limitation of the bearing position by appropriate distance dimensioning to the housing rear wall 14, as explained in more detail in detail in US Pat. No. 4,465,378.
  • a motor 15 preferably embodied as a miniature stepper motor operated in a time-keeping manner, uses its pinion 16 to drive an intermediate wheel 17 for the movement of a second wheel 18, which in turn is geared to the minute wheel 20 via a small bottom wheel 19 for reducing the movement.
  • the turning of the hour wheel 21 into a certain angular position with respect to the work housing 12 is detected by means of a reflex light barrier 27, which is designed as a compact transmitter-receiver module , if the beam path 28 - without interruption by the hour wheel 21 - is given continuously via a reflector 29.
  • This passage of the beam path 28 can only be achieved in an angular position of the hour wheel 21, namely when an aperture hole 30 formed in the hour wheel 21 has just pivoted in via the reflector 29 with a sufficient projection surface.
  • the reflex light barrier 27 is equipped with a capture circuit 31 which the response of the light barrier 27 when screwing in the aperture hole 30 ensures.
  • a deflection is independent of the hour wheel light barrier 27 in the illustrated design of the gear train.
  • Light barrier 33 is provided, the beam path 34 of which leads through structurally predetermined holes 35 in the carrier plate 13 and in a circuit board 36 held in front of it - with the saving of a space for the minute wheel 20 - and via deflection reflectors 37 on the rear housing wall 14. This beam path 34 is only released if it also leads through aperture 38 of all gear wheels protruding here.
  • the defined angular position on the part of the seconds and minutes wheel 18, 20 is reached when one of two aperture holes 38 provided in the minute wheel 20 simultaneously with the aperture hole 38 provided in the intermediate wheel 17 and with the aperture wheel 38 provided in the secondary wheel 18 in the path of the steel gear 34 lies.
  • the reflectors 29, 37 can simply be designed as small, optionally surface-treated metal parts attached to the corresponding wall 14, 40 of the work housing 12; the deflecting reflectors 37 can be designed as angled ends of a metal strip 41 (as indicated in the drawing) or as individual metal plates inserted into rear wall holding slots 42.
  • the control circuits 31, 32 and the light barriers 27, 33 are arranged so that all wiring can be realized as printed line lamination on the printed circuit board 36.
  • This also expediently carries a test circuit 43 (possibly integrated in one of the other circuits), which delivers a pulse packet with a predetermined number of motor control pulses during commissioning. This number is predetermined so that the corresponding part of the gear train 11 would have to rotate straight out of one detection position into the next detection position (ie until the next occurrence of the uninterrupted beam path 28 or 34). As a result, it can be determined in a particularly simple manner and independently of one another for the hour hand and for the minute hand whether there are gear or other errors in the gear train 11.
  • a time zone correction circuit 44 can be provided which, when changing the time zone, rotates the hour stepper motor 24 (and only this one) by one or more hours (30 degree angle) for further rotation of the hour wheel 21, or by rotates one hour or eleven hours to switch between summer time and winter time. Because the entire gear train 11 does not have to be moved for such hour jump time display corrections, but only the hour wheel 21 is driven, this can be achieved particularly quickly with low energy requirements.

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  1. Horloge radio-commandée (10), comportant deux moteurs (15,24) et un rouage (11), dont des roues dotées de trous servant d'écrans à trous (30,38) s'engagent dans deux systèmes à cellule photoélectrique (27,33) associées à la commande des moteurs, en vue de la détection de positions prédéterminées de roues, et ainsi d'aiguilles, caractérisée en ce que le premier moteur (15) est couplé dynamiquement aux roues des minutes et des secondes (18,20), tandis que le deuxième moteurs (24), couplé dynamiquement à la roue des heures (21), est équipé, quant à l'attaque de sa commande, d'un circuit de captage (31) du signal de passage de son système à cellule photoélectrique (27), afin de ne libérer celui-ci que lorsque son trou (30) de diaphragme a pivoté dans le trajet des rayons (28) d'une surface suffisamment grande pour que celui-ci ne soit plus coupé, même par le jeu existant dans le rouage en rotation.
  2. Horloge radio-commandée selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'un trajet de rayon à réflexion (28) du système à cellule photoélectrique de la roue des heures (27) est réalisé, entre un composant émetteur-récepteur, situé sur la plaquette à circuit imprimés (36) commune, et un réflecteur (29), situé sur la paroi avant de boîtier de mouvement.
  3. Horloge radio-commandée selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce qu'un trajet de rayon à déviation (34) du système à cellule photoélectrique (33) est réalisé, entre des composants émetteur et récepteur, mutuellement décalés, situés sur une plaquette à circuit imprimé (36) commune; et des réflecteurs de déviation (37), maintenus par la paroi arrière de boîtier de mouvement (14).
  4. Horloge radio-commandée selon la revendication 2 ou 3, caractérisée en ce que les réflecteurs (29,37) sont réalisés sous forme de petites tôles, positionnées sur le boîtier de mouvement (12).
  5. Horloge radio-commandée selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'est prévu une petite roue de fond (19), avec deux trous de diaphragme (38) diamétralement opposés, alternativement situés dans le trajet de rayon de déviation (34) du système à cellule photoélectrique de roue des minutes (33).
  6. Horloge radio-commandée selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que la plaquette à circuits imprimés (36) est équipée d'un circuit de test (43) destiné à commander au moins l'un des moteurs (24,15), avec un nombre prédéterminé d'impulsions de cadencement qui correspond à un tour de la roue des heures (12), ou de la roue des minutes (20).
  7. Horloge radio-commandée selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisée par un fonctionnement, temporellement décalé, des deux moteurs (15,24) et des systèmes à cellules photoélectriques (28,33) leur étant associées.
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DE8712809U DE8712809U1 (de) 1987-09-23 1987-09-23 Zweimotoren-Räderwerk, insbesondere für eine Funkuhr
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