JP2563805Y2 - Time setting mechanism of decorative body clock - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a decorative body which plays music at predetermined times such as the hour while displaying the time with hands, and displays a decorative body doll incorporated in a clock body in accordance with the music. It is about watches.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Today, based on a reference signal output from an oscillation circuit using a crystal oscillator, music is played at every hour and the like while measuring an accurate time, and a doll incorporated inside a clock body appears. Body clocks have been used as table clocks and wall clocks. A melody IC in which a plurality of songs are stored for music played at every hour, etc.
Is used, the music to be played is changed between morning and afternoon, and the music is selected according to the time of morning, day, night and night.
With C, not only music is played in accordance with the movement of the doll, but also a sounding circuit that allows greetings to flow and the doll to greet has come to be used.

[0003] In a clock body using hands, the time is normally displayed in units of 12 hours. Therefore, in order to measure time in the morning and afternoon, the time counter is a 60-second second counter and a minute counter. , And a 12-hour counter, and a memory counter in the morning and afternoon, which is a binary counter, drives and controls the minute hand based on the count values of the second counter and the minute counter, and counts the minute counter and the hour counter. In some cases, the hour hand is drive-controlled on the basis of the count value of the hour counter and the discrimination signal of the memory circuit in the morning and afternoon to select a song or a greeting.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION As described above, in today's clocks that use a crystal oscillator to perform extremely accurate timekeeping, there is almost no need to correct the time. However, many table clocks and wall clocks are driven by a battery, and it is necessary to replace the battery at home, and it is increasingly necessary to correct the time such as time setting when replacing the battery.

[0005] The time displayed by the hands is 12
Although it is hourly, the music played every hour is distinguished between morning and afternoon or morning, daytime and night, so it is mechanically clocked in 24 hours to distinguish between morning and afternoon. It is necessary to know whether the display time of the hands is in the morning or in the afternoon, and there is an identification display using an LED or the like, and a picture of day and night can be seen from a window provided in a part of the dial.

However, the display using LEDs or the like has a drawback that the appearance of the watch body is impaired, and the display that displays the morning and afternoon by changing the picture shown on the window provided on a part of the dial plate complicates the mechanism. There are drawbacks.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a decorative clock in which a decorative body appears by playing music at required times such as every hour, and different music is played at least in the morning and afternoon. In a decorative clock having a time adjustment mechanism such as a minute adjustment switch or an hour adjustment switch, the morning and afternoon memory circuit incorporated in the time counter is switched, and the morning and afternoon selection switch that activates the sound generation circuit in accordance with the switching is provided. The time setting mechanism is added to the time correction mechanism.

[0008]

[Operation] The present invention employs a time setting mechanism in which an AM / PM selection switch is added to the time correction mechanism. Therefore, the AM / PM memory circuit of the clock counter can be switched by the AM / PM selection switch to set AM / PM. . Also, since this morning and afternoon selection switch also activates the sounding circuit, the sounding circuit is activated every time the setting circuit of the morning and afternoon storage circuit is switched. You can check which one of afternoon is set.

[0009]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a time setting mechanism according to the present invention.
As shown in the figure, a reference signal generating circuit having a crystal oscillator 13
The time counter 21 counts the reference signal from 11 and has a time adjustment mechanism 41 such as a time adjustment switch 42 that enables the count value of each counter incorporated in the time counter 21 to be changed. In the decorative body clock in which the hour hand and minute hand are driven by the hour hand control circuit 51 and the minute hand control circuit 61 based on the count value, and also the sounding circuit 71 and the doll drive control circuit 81 are driven based on the count value of the time counter 21. In the morning and afternoon select switch 47 to the time adjustment mechanism 41
Is added.

The time counter 21 counts, by a second counter 23, a reference signal obtained by dividing a reference frequency signal output from the crystal oscillator 13 by a frequency dividing circuit 15, and outputs a carry signal output every 60 seconds to a minute counter 25. , And the carry signal output every 60 minutes is counted by the hour counter 27.
Memory circuit for carry signal output every 2 hours
29 to be input to the T-flip-flop.
The count value of the second counter 23, the count value of the minute counter 25, the count value of the hour counter 27, and the discrimination signal which is the output of the T-flip-flop are output as a timekeeping signal.

As shown in FIG. 2, the hour hand control circuit 51 includes an hour hand conversion circuit 52, an hour hand target position storage circuit 53, an hour hand display position storage circuit 55, an hour hand position comparison circuit 54, and an hour hand motor drive circuit 56. The time signal from the time counter 21 is used to form a position signal indicating the rotation angle of the hour hand by the hour hand conversion circuit 52 based on the count values from the hour counter 27 and the minute counter 25. The hour hand target position storage circuit 53 stores the hand rotation position signal and the hour hand target position storage circuit 53 stored in the hour hand display position storage circuit 55.
The hour hand position comparison circuit 54 compares the position signal stored in
If the rotation position signal and the position signal are different, the hour hand position comparison circuit 54 outputs a drive control signal to the hour hand motor drive circuit 56, and the hour hand motor drive circuit 56 corrects the hour hand motor 57 based on the drive control signal. A pulse signal for diversion or a pulse signal for reverse rotation is output as a drive signal, and when the rotation position signal output from the hour hand display position storage circuit 55 matches the position signal output from the hour hand target position storage circuit 53, the hour hand motor 57 is output. Is stopped, and the time is displayed by the hour hand as the rotation angle corresponding to the count value of the hour counter 27 and the minute counter 2525.

The minute hand control circuit 61 is also an hour hand control circuit 51.
It is assumed that the clock signal from the minute counter 25 and the second counter 23 of the clock signal is input to the conversion circuit 62 for the minute hand, and the position signal for the minute hand is formed based on the clock signal. This position signal is stored in the minute hand target position storage circuit.
The drive signal from the minute hand motor drive circuit 66 is stored in the minute hand position comparison circuit 64 by comparing the rotation position signal from the minute hand display position storage circuit 65 with the position signal from the minute hand target position storage circuit 63. The output is output to control the rotation of the minute hand motor 67, and the time is displayed by the minute hand.

The doll drive control circuit 81 to which the timing signal is input is composed of a stage control circuit 82, a stage motor control circuit 83, and a doll motor control circuit 85, and the stage control circuit 82 outputs the timing signal. The motor control circuit 83 for the stage and the motor control circuit 85 for the doll are controlled every hour based on the hour, and the motor control circuit 83 for the stage
The motor control circuit for the doll controls the rotation of the stage motor 84 so that the stage appears or is housed by being rotated by 80 degrees.
Numeral 85 outputs a drive signal to a doll motor 86 based on a control signal from the stage control circuit 82 so that a predetermined doll performs a required operation.

Further, a sound generating circuit 71 to which a clock signal is inputted.
As shown in FIG. 1, the audio data generation circuit 72 includes an audio generation start circuit 72, an audio data selection circuit 73, an audio data storage circuit 74, and an audio generation circuit 75. The audio data storage circuit 74 stores a plurality of music pieces. Let the time counter in the clock signal
The audio data selection circuit 73 selects a specific song based on the 27 count value and the determination signal from the morning and afternoon storage circuit 29,
The audio signal is output from the audio generation circuit 75 under the control of the audio generation start circuit 72, and the audio signal is amplified by the amplifier 76 and emitted from the speaker 77.

Note that the audio data storage circuit is not limited to the case where only the melody IC is used, but may be a combination of the melody IC and the audio data IC. And select songs that match the afternoon atmosphere, and sometimes add songs that match the night atmosphere. When the voice data IC is also used, the greeting data such as “Oh early”, “Today”, “Tonight”, and “Matane” are stored.
Using C, an appropriate tune is selected from the melody IC by the audio data selection circuit, and the word "Oh early" is used from the audio data IC from 5:00 to noon in the morning, and "Today" from 1:00 to 6:00 pm From 7 pm to 4 am, select the word "tonight" and combine it with the word "matane" between the melody IC music and make it sound from the speakers. ing.

The time adjustment mechanism 41 has a time adjustment switch 42, a minute adjustment switch 43 and an hour adjustment switch 44. When the time adjustment switch 42 is operated, the second counter 23 is reset by the time adjustment signal and When the first AND circuit 31 and the second AND circuit 32 are opened, the minute correction switch 43 is opened.
And the pulse signal from the hour correction switch 44 is a minute counter 25
And a correction mode that can be input to the clock input terminal of the hour counter 27.

An AM / PM selection switch 47 added to the time adjustment mechanism 41 is connected to a trigger input terminal of an AM / PM storage circuit 29 via an OR circuit 35. When the selection switch 47 is operated, the AM / PM memory is stored. The determination signal output from the T-flip-flop as the circuit 29 is sequentially switched. The selection signal from the AM / PM selection switch 47 is connected not only to the AM / PM storage circuit 29 of the clock counter 21 but also to the sound generation circuit 71 so that the AM / PM selection switch 47 is connected to the sound generation circuit 71. A selection signal is input to the sound generation start circuit 72 and the sound data selection circuit 73 in the sound generation circuit 71.

Accordingly, when the selection signal from the morning and afternoon selection switch 47 is input to the audio data selection circuit 73, the audio data selection circuit 73 receives the selection signal which is the time signal input from the clock counter 21 and outputs the selection signal. The greeting signal is determined from the voice data IC by the discrimination signal switched by the operation of the storage circuit 29 and the count value from the hour counter 27, and the selection signal from the morning and afternoon selection switch 47, and
The sound generation start circuit 72 is started by the selection signal, and a word such as “Oh early” that can distinguish between morning and afternoon is played from the speaker.

It should be noted that the selection signal is input to the sound generation start circuit 72 only in a single order as equivalent to the hour signal.
With this selection signal, it is also possible to cause the sound generation circuit 71 to perform a series of operations same as a normal operation such as the hour and to sound a greeting or to play a tune in the morning or afternoon. As described above, the time setting mechanism 40 according to the present embodiment
Memory circuit 29 in the morning and afternoon of sounding circuit 71 and clock counter 21 in 41
Since a morning and afternoon selection switch 47 that sends a selection signal is added, the time adjustment switch 42, the minute adjustment switch 43, and the hour adjustment switch 44 are operated to correct the count value of the time counter 21, and the correct time is displayed on the hands. After the display is performed, operating the AM / PM selection switch 47 switches the setting of the AM / PM memory circuit 29, and activates the sounding circuit 71, so that music played in the morning or afternoon and greetings in the morning, afternoon or night are displayed. A certain word flows from the speaker, and the setting can be confirmed by voice or music while freely changing the setting of the morning and afternoon by operating the selection switch 47 in the morning and afternoon. Particularly, "early", "today", "tonight" Greeting words such as "
Since it is a familiar and everyday language, it has the advantage that anyone can immediately distinguish between AM and PM.

In the above embodiment, the second counter 23 incorporated in the time counter 21 is reset by the time correction signal. However, the second counter 23 is reset and the minute counter 25 and the hour counter 27 are reset or reset. It is also possible to preset.

[0021]

[Effect of the Invention] Since the time setting mechanism of the decorative body clock according to the present invention is provided with a morning and afternoon selection switch, it is possible to freely set the morning or afternoon by operating the selection switch. The correction of the hands may be performed within a range of 12 hours, and the display time can be easily and quickly corrected by setting the movement range of the hour hand and the minute hand within half a rotation.

The setting of the time counter in the morning and afternoon can be easily performed by the switch in the morning and afternoon. When the setting is performed, the sounding circuit is activated, and the music or greeting in the morning or afternoon is emitted to set the time. Since it is possible to eliminate the need for a display mechanism for visually confirming the time in the morning and afternoon, it is possible to incorporate the decorative body while simplifying the mechanism of the clock body. There is also an advantage that it can be easily performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an entire control circuit of a decorative clock having a time setting mechanism according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the decorative clock.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 Reference signal generation circuit 21 Clock counter 23 Second counter 25 minute counter 27 hour counter 29 AM / PM storage circuit 40 Time setting mechanism 41 Time adjustment mechanism 42 Time adjustment switch 43 Minute adjustment switch 44 Hour adjustment switch 47 AM / PM selection switch 51 Hour hand control Circuit 57 Hour hand motor 61 Minute hand control circuit 67 Minute hand motor 71 Sound generation circuit 72 Sound generation start circuit 73 Audio data selection circuit 74 Audio data storage circuit 75 Audio generation circuit 76 Amplifier 77 Speaker 81 Doll drive control circuit 84 Stage motor 86 Doll Motor

Claims (2)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A decorative clock having a time adjustment mechanism and a sounding circuit in which music played at predetermined time intervals is different between morning and afternoon, switching between a memory circuit for a clock counter in the morning and afternoon and activating the sounding circuit. A time setting mechanism for a decorative body clock, wherein a afternoon selection switch is provided in addition to the time correction mechanism. 2. The decorative body according to claim 1, wherein the sounding circuit comprises a melody IC storing music and a voice data IC storing morning, noon, and night greetings. Clock time setting mechanism.