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EP 0253227 B1 19891129 - DEVICE FOR PROGRAMMING A NON VOLATILE MEMORY OF A TIME PIECE

Title (en)

DEVICE FOR PROGRAMMING A NON VOLATILE MEMORY OF A TIME PIECE

Publication

EP 0253227 B1 19891129 (FR)

Application

EP 87109566 A 19870703

Priority

CH 277386 A 19860710

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4763309A] This programming arrangement for a non-volatile memory incorporated in the inner circuit of a timepiece for adjusting the frequency of the time base thereof includes a support provided with a connector to be plugged in in place of the energy cell. The rate of division of the frequency divider is adjusted by the introduction into the memory of a number k representative of the frequency difference between the time base frequency and a standard frequency. To effect this the arrangement comprises an electronic circuit external to the timepiece and which is coupled thereto by the connector. The electronic circuit introduces the number k into certain predetermined stages of the divider. When such number k is thus introduced the state of such stages is blocked by the inner circuit of the timepiece such state then being transferred into the non-volatile memory.

IPC 1-7

G04D 7/00; G04G 3/02

IPC 8 full level

G04C 3/14 (2006.01); G04D 7/00 (2006.01); G04G 3/02 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G04D 7/003 (2013.01 - EP US); G04G 3/022 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (examination)

US 4147022 A 19790403 - ICHIKAWA SINGO

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0253227 A1 19880120; EP 0253227 B1 19891129; CH 664868G A3 19880415; DE 3761065 D1 19900104; HK 2295 A 19950113; JP 2519464 B2 19960731; JP S6329291 A 19880206; US 4763309 A 19880809

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 87109566 A 19870703; CH 277386 A 19860710; DE 3761065 T 19870703; HK 2295 A 19950105; JP 17131587 A 19870710; US 7150387 A 19870709