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Microcontroller regulated quartz clock

  • US 6,359,840 B1
  • Filed: 06/01/1999
  • Issued: 03/19/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a clock, the combination of a movement for rotating at least one hand about a center of an analog display, said movement comprising, a battery, a quartz crystal oscillator, a stepper motor, a gear train, a programmable microcontroller for processing pulses from said quartz crystal oscillator to turn “

  • on” and



    off”

    said stepper motor during prescribed intervals of time, said analog display having at least one pair of sectors for indicating with said hand at least one pair of activities during each revolution of said hand; and

    a computer program for providing a set of instructions to said microcontroller for turning said stepper motor “

    on” and



    off”

    during said prescribed intervals of time.

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