EP0464760A2 - Radio updated timetable clock - Google Patents

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EP0464760A2
EP0464760A2 EP91110912A EP91110912A EP0464760A2 EP 0464760 A2 EP0464760 A2 EP 0464760A2 EP 91110912 A EP91110912 A EP 91110912A EP 91110912 A EP91110912 A EP 91110912A EP 0464760 A2 EP0464760 A2 EP 0464760A2
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  • the invention relates to an appointment radio clock according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such a clock is known from DE-OS 35 10 636. With it, the time at which an alarm signal is to be issued can be entered digitally (for a comparison of the binary pattern of the signal time with that of the currently given time), as it is as such from DE-OS 22 06 592 for a digital bracelet -Alarm clock is previously known.
  • that generic prior publication also discloses the possibility of querying the coincidence of the position of the hour hand and the position of the alarm hand by means of a conventional pointer movement scanning device and of issuing a switch-on signal for the alarm signal via an electromechanical switching path.
  • An electromechanical or electronic scanner works somewhat more precisely than the cam-engaging mechanism for the binary pattern of a multi-bit angle encoder, which is formed on a pointer wheel or a carrier wheel coupled to it in a geared manner, as described in more detail in DE-PS 26 09 871 (FIG. 6). But even with such scanning devices, the response accuracy fluctuates.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of designing an appointment radio clock of the generic type in such a way that, despite the use of such a conventional scanning device, the highly precise triggering of the alarm signal which is typical and to be expected for a radio clock takes place.
  • the wake-up time occurs, stationary switch-on behavior is ensured, so that the coincidence condition can now be switched through precisely (without play) from the register-derived release signal for alarm output.
  • a radio-controlled alarm signal triggering to the exact second can be achieved at any point in time that can be selected in the setting grid (for example, every ten minutes).
  • appointment radio clock 1 also has in particular a radio receiver 2 with a demodulator 3, which is supplied with radio frequency energy via an antenna 4, which is modulated every minute with binary-coded current time information 5. This appears, provided there are sufficient radio reception conditions, Behind the modulator 3 as a pulse-modulated signal sequence 6 (with suppression of the respectively fifty-ninth second).
  • the current time information 5 contained therein is compared in a control circuit 7 with display information 8 from the display device 9, given by the momentary position of pointers 10 in front of a dial 11. They are driven by an electromechanical converter 12.
  • an output stage 13 for operating the converter 12 is operated at high speed f2, for example from a time-keeping circuit 15, until the current display information 8 of a display detector 16 ( preferably realized as a light barrier query of the pointer mechanism), the correct position of the pointers 10 with respect to the current time information 5 is determined.
  • the control circuit 7 can now switch the output stage 13 to time-keeping operation from the oscillator circuit 15, and the pointers 10 are moved on with the frequency f1 at the correct time.
  • the registers in the control circuit 7, which are set by the time information signal sequence 6 and are now clocked further from the time-keeping circuit 15, have the effect that the radio receiver 2 does not remain in operation for any length of time, in particular in the case of a battery-operated appointment radio clock 1, but in circuit-technically predetermined time cycles for the pointer position control and possibly correction is switched on again, as illustrated by the control information 18 in FIG. 1.
  • the appointment radio clock 1 is also equipped with an electronic coincidence circuit 19, which can be implemented in the context of a processor, which in particular also performs the function of the control circuit 7.
  • a manually operable input device 20 allows the desired signaling time to be set, which is indicated, for example, by the position of an alarm time pointer 27 in front of the dial 11.
  • a scanner 21 (constructed, for example, as the classic alarm mechanism, as an angle code scanner or else as a sensor similar to the display detector 16) provides a switch-on signal 22 when the position of the pointer mechanism corresponds to the angular position of the alarm time pointer 27 set up for the time of the alarm.
  • the signal transmitter 23 is not yet triggered by an alarm signal 24 as a result of this alone.
  • the function of the scanning device 21 includes a certain switching cycle 30 of typically plus / minus two minutes around a predetermined signaling time 31.
  • certain signaling times 31 ′ are functionally permitted, for example on the basis of a correspondingly designed latching coupling 32 in the operative connection of the manual input device 20.
  • These are expediently offset from one another by a periodic setting grid 33 which is larger than the sampling switching cycle 30 and, in the given example, is expediently ten minutes in relation to the full hour.
  • this setting raster 33 is greater than the period of one revolution of the alarm time pointer 27 minus the switching cycle 30, then it is ensured that within the period of the switching cycle 30 there can possibly be a single signaling time 31 ', as can be seen in FIG 2 results without further ado.
  • the alarm time pointer 27 is adjusted with respect to the scanning device 21 in such a way that it is adjusted in front of the dial 11 in such a way that the scanned signaling time 31, including the response switching cycle 30 that is halfway between the two (short) before the nominal signaling point in time 31 ', shortly before reaching this point in time 31' only the switch-on signal 22 initially appears.
  • an interval and pulse generator 34 fed from the register of the control circuit 7 supplies a signal and Time 31 'beginning Release signal 35 to the coincidence circuit 19. This therefore switches through and outputs the alarm signal 24, as long as both the switch-on signal 22 from the pointer scanning device 21 and the release signal 35 are still present.
  • the switch-on signal delivered via it is typically present for between thirty and forty-five minutes until the scanning contact paths open again in the course of the further rotation of the pointer mechanism, which is queried in terms of operation.
  • the duration of the alarm signal 24 is expediently limited (in particular in order to avoid a permanent load on the electrical power source of a wireless appointment clock 1) by means of the duration of the enable signal 35, in which, when it disappears, the coincidence condition of the circuit 19 again goes out.
  • the interval and pulse generator 34 is therefore not only designed to switch through in the fixed rhythm of the adjustment grid 33 also implemented on the clutch 32; in addition, it contains a monostable characteristic based, for example, on a counting basis, in order to limit the output of signal 35 in time.
  • a flip-flop 36 can also be provided in front of or behind the coincidence circuit 19, which cancels this coincidence condition a circuit-specific time period after the coincidence-related alarm signal 24 is inserted, or blocks the forwarding of the output alarm signal 24.
  • this bistable flip-flop 36 has a set input 37 that is dynamically responsive to the onset of the control information, then the flip-flop 36 reset with a time delay from the alarm signal 24 can only be set again in preparation for the coincidence condition when the switch-on signal triggered by the pointer scanning device 21 is activated 22 after the corresponding continuation of the pointer 10 has ended and then reappears when an alarm time setting is reached again.
  • electromechanical signaling sampling device 21 nevertheless a radio-controlled output of a time-limited alarm signal 24 can be effected to the exact second.

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A radio-updated timetable clock (1) with electromechanical scanning device (21) for outputting a switch-on signal (22, 22'), when the current timing information (5) checked by radio has reached the signal output time specified by the alarm time pointer (27), is to be designed for radio-accurate triggering of the alarm signal (24) even though the switching tolerance (30) of the scanning device (21), due to its function, has a relatively long and fluctuating response tolerance and without having to use digital comparator circuits as in the case where a signal time is digitally input. For this purpose, the alarm time setting is mounted so as to lead ahead of the angular position of the pointer mechanism in such a manner that the sampling time (31) including its complete switching tolerance (30) is located before the actual time (31') for outputting the alarm signal (24). Because of the long switch-on holding time of the switch-on signal (22) output by the scanning device (21), the condition of coincidence for outputting the alarm signal (24) accurate to a second occurs with the release time (31') checked by radio. When provision is made that the signal output times (31') can only be selected within a pattern (33) which is wider than the response switching tolerance (30) of the scanning device (21), it is ensured at the same time that no alarm coincidence can occur during this switching tolerance (30). <IMAGE>

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Termin-Funkuhr gemäß dem Oberbegriff des Anspruches 1.The invention relates to an appointment radio clock according to the preamble of claim 1.

Eine derartige Uhr ist aus der DE-OS 35 10 636 bekannt. Bei ihr kann der Zeitpunkt, zu dem ein Alarmsignal abgegeben werden soll, digital (für einen Vergleich des Binärmusters des Signalzeitpunktes mit dem des aktuell gegebenen Zeitpunkts) eingegeben werden, wie es als solches etwa aus der DE-OS 22 06 592 für eine digitale Armband-Weckeruhr vorbekannt ist. Daneben ist in jener gattungsbildenden Vorveröffentlichung aber auch die Möglichkeit offenbart, mittels einer herkömmlichen Zeigerwerks-Abtasteinrichtung die Koinzidenz der Stellung des Stundenzeigers und der Stellung des Alarmzeigers abzufragen und über eine elektromechanische Schaltstrecke ein Einschaltsignal für die Alarmgabe auszugeben.Such a clock is known from DE-OS 35 10 636. With it, the time at which an alarm signal is to be issued can be entered digitally (for a comparison of the binary pattern of the signal time with that of the currently given time), as it is as such from DE-OS 22 06 592 for a digital bracelet -Alarm clock is previously known. In addition, however, that generic prior publication also discloses the possibility of querying the coincidence of the position of the hour hand and the position of the alarm hand by means of a conventional pointer movement scanning device and of issuing a switch-on signal for the alarm signal via an electromechanical switching path.

Allerdings ist es aus der Technologie der mechanischen und elektromechanischen Weckeruhren bekannt, daß eine derartige, auch als Zeigereinfall-Vorrichtung bezeichnete Abtasteinrichtung ein relativ großes Ansprech-Schaltspiel (in der Größenordnung von typisch gut vier Minuten) hat, während die Dauer bis zum Wieder-Aufheben der mit dem Einfall geschlossenen Kontaktüberbrückung in der Größenordnung um 40 Minuten liegen kann.However, it is known from the technology of mechanical and electromechanical alarm clocks that such a scanning device, also known as the pointer incidence device, has a relatively large response switching cycle (in the order of magnitude of typically a good four minutes), while the time until it is canceled the contact bridging closed with the idea can be of the order of 40 minutes.

Zwar lassen sich diese Zeitspannen im Interesse einer möglichst minutengenauen Wecksignal-Auslösung und einer Signaldauerbegrenzung durch UND-Verknüpfungen mit einer weiteren Einfall-Abtasteinrichtung, die über ein wesentlich rascher laufendes Getriebeteil des Zeigerwerkes gesteuert wird, präzisieren, wie schon in der DE-PS 902 836 für eine rein mechanische Weckeruhr näher beschrieben. Die Realisierung einer solchen Abhilfemaßnahme erfordert aber einen erheblichen konstruktiven Mehraufwand bei entsprechendem Mehrbedarf an Einbauvolumen, läßt sich also mit dem anzustrebenden Einsatz eines preisgünstig fertigbaren Standard-Weckerwerks in einer Funkuhr-Terminuhr nicht vereinbaren.In the interest of triggering the wake-up signal as precisely as possible to the minute and limiting the duration of the signal by AND links with a further incident scanning device, which is controlled by a much faster running gear part of the pointer mechanism, these time periods can be specified, as already described in DE-PS 902 836 described for a purely mechanical alarm clock. However, the implementation of such a remedial measure requires a considerable additional constructive effort with a correspondingly higher installation volume, and therefore cannot be reconciled with the desired use of an inexpensive standard alarm clock in a radio-controlled clock.

Etwas präziser als der Nocken-Einfallmechanismus arbeitet ein elektromechanischer oder elektronischer Abtaster für das auf einem Zeigerrad oder einem damit getrieblich gekoppelten Trägerrad ausgebildeten Binärmuster eines Mehrbit-Winkelkodierers, wie etwa in der DE-PS 26 09 871 (Fig. 6) näher beschrieben. Aber auch bei solchen Abtasteinrichtungen ist die Ansprechgenauigkeit schwankend.An electromechanical or electronic scanner works somewhat more precisely than the cam-engaging mechanism for the binary pattern of a multi-bit angle encoder, which is formed on a pointer wheel or a carrier wheel coupled to it in a geared manner, as described in more detail in DE-PS 26 09 871 (FIG. 6). But even with such scanning devices, the response accuracy fluctuates.

Andererseits ist es mit der unvorstellbaren Genauigkeit einer aus der Atom-Normaluhr für die gesetzliche Zeit funkgesteuerten Konsumuhr nicht vereinbar, wenn trotz präziser manueller Vorgabe des Signalgabe-Zeitpunktes der Einsatz des Alarmsignales schwankt.On the other hand, it is incompatible with the unimaginable accuracy of a consumer watch that is radio-controlled for the legal time from the atomic normal watch if the use of the alarm signal fluctuates despite precise manual specification of the signaling time.

Der Erfindung liegt deshalb die Aufgabe zugrunde eine Termin-Funkuhr gattungsgemäßer Art derart auszulegen, daß trotz Einsatzes solch einer üblichen Abtasteinrichtung doch die für eine Funkuhr typische und zu erwartende höchst-exakte Auslösung des Alarmsignales erfolgt.The invention is therefore based on the object of designing an appointment radio clock of the generic type in such a way that, despite the use of such a conventional scanning device, the highly precise triggering of the alarm signal which is typical and to be expected for a radio clock takes place.

Diese Aufgabe ist erfindungsgemäß im wesentlichen dadurch gelöst, daß die gattungsgemäße Termin-Funkuhr gemäß dem Kennzeichnungsteil des Anspruches 1 ausgelegt ist. Nach dieser Lösung wird zur Ausgabe des Alarmsignales eine Koinzindenz zwischen der Einschaltinformation der Abtasteinrichtung, die manuell auf einen Signalgabe-Zeitpunkt voreingestellt wurde, und einem Freigabesignal aus den Zeitregistern ausgewertet, die periodisch über Funk kontrolliert und bedarfsweise korrigiert, im übrigen zeithaltend aus einer internen Oszillatorschaltung weitergetaktet werden, also mit höchster Präzision jeweils den tatsächlichen, aktuell gegebenen Zeitpunkt angeben.This object is essentially achieved in that the generic appointment radio clock is designed according to the characterizing part of claim 1. According to this solution, there is a coincidence between the switch-on information of the scanning device, which is manually based on a signaling time, for the output of the alarm signal was preset, and an enable signal from the time registers was evaluated, which is periodically checked by radio and corrected if necessary, and is clocked further from an internal oscillator circuit, i.e., specifying the actual, currently given time with maximum precision.

Dabei ist jedoch das Ansprech-Schaltspiel der Abtasteinrichtung für den in herkömmlicher Weise z. B. als Zeigerstellung über dem Zifferblatt manuell vorgegebenen Weckzeitpunkt nicht auf diesen Zeitpunkt gelegt, sondern soweit vorverlegt, daß deren Ungenauigkeitsbereich vor tatsächlichem Eintritt des Weckzeitpunktes überschritten ist; mit Eintritt des Weckzeitpunktes ist also stationäres Einschaltverhalten gesichert, so daß nun die Koinzidenzbedingung vom registerabgeleiteten Freigabesignal zur Alarmausgabe präzise (spielfrei) durchgeschaltet werden kann.However, the response switching cycle of the scanning device for the z. B. as a pointer position on the dial manually specified wake-up time not at this time, but advanced so far that its inaccuracy range is exceeded before the wake-up time actually occurs; When the wake-up time occurs, stationary switch-on behavior is ensured, so that the coincidence condition can now be switched through precisely (without play) from the register-derived release signal for alarm output.

Damit der manuell vorgewählte Alarmzeitpunkt nicht irrtümlich in die Zeitspanne des Ansprech-Schaltspiels der Abtasteinrichtung hineinverlegt wird, ist es zweckmäßig, nicht beliebige Alarmzeitpunkte zuzulasen, sondern für diese ein Zeit-Raster vorzugeben, das größer ist, als die Schaltspiel-Zeitspanne. Beispielsweise durch entsprechende Rastungen in einer Wellen-Rutschkupplung zwischen einer Alarmzeit-Einstellkrone und dem Zeigerwerk des Alarmzeit-Zeigers kann sichergestellt werden, daß etwa nur Alarmzeiten im Zehn-Minuten-Raster eingestellt werden können, während die typische Schaltspiel-Spanne zweimal zwei Minuten und damit einen geringeren Wert aufweist. Die registerabgeleiteten Freigabesignale werden dann im selben Zeitraster abgefragt. Damit allerdings eine zweite Alarmsignal-Auslösung, trotz noch nicht wieder geöffneter Abtast-Schaltstrecke, vermieden wird, ist es vorteilhaft, durch eine logische Verknüpfung die nächstfolgende Durchschaltung der Koinzidenzbedingung nur und erst dann zuzulassen, wenn nach einer Unterbrechung der Schaltstrecke in der Abtasteinrichtung diese erneut schließt, weil erneut ein durch die Stellung des Alarmzeit-Zeigers angegebener Zeitpunkt (nach Ablauf des Ansprech-Schaltspieles von der zurückliegenden Alarmauslösung) bevorsteht.So that the manually preselected alarm time is not mistakenly moved into the time period of the response switching cycle of the scanning device, it is advisable not to allow any alarm times, but to specify a time grid for them that is greater than the switching cycle time period. For example, by means of corresponding detents in a shaft-slip clutch between an alarm time setting crown and the pointer mechanism of the alarm time pointer, it can be ensured that only alarm times can be set in a ten-minute grid, while the typical switching cycle span is two and two minutes, and thus has a lower value. The register-derived release signals are then queried in the same time grid. However, in order to avoid a second alarm signal triggering despite the scanning switching path not yet being reopened, it is advantageous to only allow the subsequent switching through of the coincidence condition by means of a logical link and only when the switching path in the scanning device is interrupted again after an interruption of the switching path closes because a time indicated by the position of the alarm time pointer (after the response switching cycle has elapsed from the previous alarm triggering) is imminent.

So ist mit einer praktisch beliebig spielbehafteten herkömmlichen Abtasteinrichtung eine sekundengenau funkgesteuerte Alarmsignal-Auslösung zu einem beliebigen im Einstellraster auswählbaren Zeitpunkt (beispielsweise in zehnminütigem Abstand) erzielbar.Thus, with a conventional scanning device that has practically any play, a radio-controlled alarm signal triggering to the exact second can be achieved at any point in time that can be selected in the setting grid (for example, every ten minutes).

Zusätzliche Alternativen und Weiterbildungen sowie weitere Merkmale und Vorteile der Erfindung ergeben sich aus den weiteren Ansprüchen und, auch unter Berücksichtigung der Darlegungen in der Zusammenfassung, aus nachstehender Beschreibung eines in der Zeichnung unter Beschränkung auf das Wesentliche als einpoliges Blockschaltbild stark abstrahiert skizzierten bevorzugten Realisierungsbeispiels zur erfindungsgemäßen Lösung. Es zeigt:

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im Schaltbild mit symbolischer Veranschaulichung einer Weckzeitpunkt-Abtasteinrichtung die funkgenau gesteuerte Alarmsignal-Ausgabe und
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über einem herkömmlichen zwölfstündigen Zifferblatt im Zeit-Kreisdiagramm das funktionelle Zusammenwirken der Eingangssignale einer Koinzidenzschaltung zur Ausgabe des Alarmsignales unter Ausblendung von auf ein Abtast-Schaltspiel zurückgehenden etwaigen Einschaltungenauigkeiten und unter Veranschaulichung eines Einstell-Zeitrasters für auswählbare Weckzeitpunkte.
Additional alternatives and further developments as well as further features and advantages of the invention result from the further claims and, also taking into account the explanations in the summary, from the following description of a preferred implementation example for the invention according to the invention, which is sketched in a highly abstracted manner as a single-pole block diagram and limited to the essential Solution. It shows:
Figure 1
in the circuit diagram with symbolic illustration of a wake-up time scanning device, the radio-controlled controlled alarm signal output and
Figure 2
The functional interaction of the input signals of a coincidence circuit for outputting the alarm signal by masking out any inaccuracies due to a scanning switching cycle and illustrating a setting time grid for selectable wake-up times over a conventional twelve-hour dial in the time pie chart.

Wie in der DE-OS 35 10 636 unter Bezugnahme auf die eingeführte JUNGHANS-Funkuhrentechnologie näher beschrieben, weist auch die vorliegende, hier sogenannte Termin-Funkuhr 1 insbesondere einen Funkempfänger 2 mit Demodulator 3 auf, der über eine Antenne 4 mit Hochfrequenzenergie gespeist wird, welche im Minutenraster mit einer binär-codierten aktuellen Zeitinformation 5 moduliert ist. Diese erscheint, ausreichende Funkempfangsgegebenheiten vorausgesetzt, hinter dem Modulator 3 als im Sekundenraster (bei Unterdrückung der jeweis neunundfünzigsten Sekunde) impulsmodulierte Signalfolge 6. Die darin enthaltene aktuelle Zeitinformation 5 wird in einer Steuerschaltung 7 mit einer Anzeigeinformation 8 von der Anzeigeeinrichtung 9 verglichen, gegeben durch die Momentanstellung von Zeigern 10 vor einem Zifferblatt 11. Deren Antrieb erfolgt über einen elektromechanischen Wandler 12.As described in DE-OS 35 10 636 with reference to the introduced JUNGHANS radio clock technology, the present, here so-called appointment radio clock 1 also has in particular a radio receiver 2 with a demodulator 3, which is supplied with radio frequency energy via an antenna 4, which is modulated every minute with binary-coded current time information 5. This appears, provided there are sufficient radio reception conditions, Behind the modulator 3 as a pulse-modulated signal sequence 6 (with suppression of the respectively fifty-ninth second). The current time information 5 contained therein is compared in a control circuit 7 with display information 8 from the display device 9, given by the momentary position of pointers 10 in front of a dial 11. They are driven by an electromechanical converter 12.

Bei einer Fehlweisung der Zeiger 10, bezogen auf die aktuelle Zeitinformation 5, wird eine Ausgangsstufe 13 zum Betrieb des Wandlers 12 so lange, beispielsweise aus einer zeithaltenden Schaltung 15, mit überhöhter Frequenz f2 im Eilgang betrieben, bis die aktuelle Anzeigeinformation 8 eines Anzeigedetektors 16 (vorzugsweise realisiert als LichtschrankenAbfrage des Zeigerwerks) die zeitrichtige Stellung der Zeiger 10 bezüglich der aktuellen Zeitinformation 5 ermittelt. Jetzt kann die Steuerschaltung 7 die Ausgangsstufe 13 auf zeithaltenden Betrieb aus der Oszillator-Schaltung 15 umschalten, und die Zeiger 10 werden mit der Frequenz f1 zeitrichtig weiterbewegt. Außerdem wird durch die von der Zeitinformations-Signalfolge 6 gesetzten und nun aus der zeithaltenden Schaltung 15 weitergetakteten Register in der Steuerschaltung 7 bewirkt, daß der Funkempfänger 2 aus Gründen der Energieersparnis insbesondere bei batteriebetriebener Termin-Funkuhr 1 nicht beliebig lange in Betrieb bleibt, aber in schaltungstechnisch vorbestimmten Zeitzyklen wieder für die Zeigerstellungs-Kontrolle und gegebenenfalls -Korrektur eingeschaltet wird, wie durch die Steuerinformation 18 in Fig. 1 veranschaulicht.If the pointers 10 are misdirected in relation to the current time information 5, an output stage 13 for operating the converter 12 is operated at high speed f2, for example from a time-keeping circuit 15, until the current display information 8 of a display detector 16 ( preferably realized as a light barrier query of the pointer mechanism), the correct position of the pointers 10 with respect to the current time information 5 is determined. The control circuit 7 can now switch the output stage 13 to time-keeping operation from the oscillator circuit 15, and the pointers 10 are moved on with the frequency f1 at the correct time. In addition, the registers in the control circuit 7, which are set by the time information signal sequence 6 and are now clocked further from the time-keeping circuit 15, have the effect that the radio receiver 2 does not remain in operation for any length of time, in particular in the case of a battery-operated appointment radio clock 1, but in circuit-technically predetermined time cycles for the pointer position control and possibly correction is switched on again, as illustrated by the control information 18 in FIG. 1.

Die Termin-Funkuhr 1 ist ferner mit einer elektronischen Koinzidenzschaltung 19 ausgestattet, die im Rahmen eines Prozessors realisiert werden kann, der insbesondere auch die Funktion der Steuerschaltung 7 ausübt. Eine manuell betätigbare Eingabeeinrichtung 20 läßt den gewünschten Signalgabe-Zeitpunkt einstellen, der beispielsweise durch die Stellung eines Alarmzeit-Zeigers 27 vor dem Zifferblatt 11 angezeigt wird. Eine Abtasteinrichtung 21 (aufgebaut etwa als der klassische Weckereinfall-Mechanismus, als Winkelcode-Abtaster oder aber als Sensor ähnlich dem Anzeigedetektor 16) liefert ein Einschaltsignal 22, wenn die Stellung des Zeigerwerkes der für den Alarmgabezeitpunkt eingerichteten Winkelstellung des Alarmzeit-Zeigers 27 entspricht.The appointment radio clock 1 is also equipped with an electronic coincidence circuit 19, which can be implemented in the context of a processor, which in particular also performs the function of the control circuit 7. A manually operable input device 20 allows the desired signaling time to be set, which is indicated, for example, by the position of an alarm time pointer 27 in front of the dial 11. A scanner 21 (constructed, for example, as the classic alarm mechanism, as an angle code scanner or else as a sensor similar to the display detector 16) provides a switch-on signal 22 when the position of the pointer mechanism corresponds to the angular position of the alarm time pointer 27 set up for the time of the alarm.

Allerdings wird allein dadurch der Signalgeber 23 noch nicht von einem Alarmsignal 24 angesteuert. Denn die Funktion der Abtasteinrichtung 21 beinhaltet, wie in Fig. 2 veranschaulicht, ein gewisses Schaltspiel 30 von typisch plus/minus zwei Minuten um einen vorgegebenen Signalgabezeitpunkt 31 herum. Um dennoch mit einfachen elektromechanischen Mitteln ein funkgenaues Einsetzen des Alarmsignales 24 zu erzielen, werden - beispielsweise aufgrund einer entsprechend ausgelegten Rast-Kupplung 32 in der Wirkverbindung der manuellen Eingabeeinrichtung 20 - nur bestimmte Signalgabe-Zeitpunkte 31' funktional zugelassen. Diese liegen zweckmäßigerweise um ein periodisches Einstell-Raster 33 gegeneinander versetzt, welches größer ist als das Abtast-Schaltspiel 30 und im gegebenen Beispielsfalle zweckmäßigerweise zehn Minuten bezogen auf die volle Stunde beträgt. Wenn außerdem dieses Einstell-Raster 33 größer ist als die Zeitspanne eines Umlaufes des Alarmzeit-Zeigers 27 abzüglich des Schaltspieles 30, dann ist sichergestellt, daß innerhalb der Zeitspanne des Schaltspiels 30 allenfalls ein einziger Signalgabe-Zeitpunkt 31' liegen kann, wie sich aus Fig. 2 ohne weiteres ergibt.However, the signal transmitter 23 is not yet triggered by an alarm signal 24 as a result of this alone. This is because, as illustrated in FIG. 2, the function of the scanning device 21 includes a certain switching cycle 30 of typically plus / minus two minutes around a predetermined signaling time 31. In order to nevertheless achieve a radio-precise insertion of the alarm signal 24 using simple electromechanical means, only certain signaling times 31 ′ are functionally permitted, for example on the basis of a correspondingly designed latching coupling 32 in the operative connection of the manual input device 20. These are expediently offset from one another by a periodic setting grid 33 which is larger than the sampling switching cycle 30 and, in the given example, is expediently ten minutes in relation to the full hour. If, in addition, this setting raster 33 is greater than the period of one revolution of the alarm time pointer 27 minus the switching cycle 30, then it is ensured that within the period of the switching cycle 30 there can possibly be a single signaling time 31 ', as can be seen in FIG 2 results without further ado.

Wenn nun gemäß Fig. 2 der Alarmzeit-Zeiger 27 in Bezug auf die Abtasteinrichtung 21 derart versetzt vor dem Zifferblatt 11 justiert ist, daß der abgetastete Signalgabe-Zeitpunkt 31 unter Einschluß des beiderseits je zur Hälfte gelegenen Ansprech-Schaltspieles 30 (kurz) vor dem nominellen Signalgabe-Zeitpunkt 31' liegt, dann erscheint kurz vor Erreichen dieses Zeitpunktes 31' zunächst nur das Einschaltsignal 22. Mit Ablauf des momentanen Einstell-Rasters 33 liefert ein aus dem Register der Steuerschaltung 7 gespeister Intervall- und Impulsgeber 34 ein mit dem Signalgabe-Zeitpunkt 31' einsetzendes Freigabesignal 35 an die Koinzidenzschaltung 19. Dieses schaltet deshalb durch und gibt das Alarmsignal 24 aus, solange noch sowohl das Einschaltsignal 22 aus der Zeigerwerks-Abtasteinrichtung 21 wie auch das Freigabesignal 35 anstehen. Bei einer nach dem Stande der Technik üblichen elektromechanischen Weckzeit-Abtasteinrichtung 21 steht das über sie gelieferte Einschaltsignal typischerweise zwischen dreißig und fünfundvierzig Minuten an, bis im Zuge der getrieblich abgefragten Weiterdrehung des Zeigerwerks die Abtast-Kontaktstrecken wieder öffnen. Deshalb erfolgt zweckmäßigerweise eine Begrenzung der Dauer des Alarmsignales 24 (insbesondere um eine Dauerbelastung der elektrischen Leistungsquelle einer netzlos betriebenen Termin-Funkuhr 1 zu vermeiden) zeitlich begrenzt durch die Dauer des Freigabesignales 35, indem mit dessen Verschwinden auch die Koinzidenz-Bedingung der Schaltung 19 wieder erlischt. Der Intervall- und Impulsgeber 34 ist also nicht nur dafür ausgelegt, im festen Rhythmus des auch an der Kupplung 32 realisierten Einstell-Rasters 33 durchzuschalten; zusätzlich beinhaltet er eine beispielsweise auf Zählbasis beruhende monostabile Charakteristik, um das ausgegebene Signal 35 zeitlich zu begrenzen. Stattdessen oder zusätzlich kann auch eine Kippstufe 36 vor oder hinter der Koinzidenzschaltung 19 vorgesehen sein, die eine schaltungstechnisch vorgegebene Zeitspanne nach Einsetzen des koinzidenzbedingten Alarmsignales 24 diese Koinzidenzbedingung wieder aufhebt, beziehungsweise die Weiterleitung des ausgegebenen Alarmsignales 24 blockiert.If, according to FIG. 2, the alarm time pointer 27 is adjusted with respect to the scanning device 21 in such a way that it is adjusted in front of the dial 11 in such a way that the scanned signaling time 31, including the response switching cycle 30 that is halfway between the two (short) before the nominal signaling point in time 31 ', shortly before reaching this point in time 31' only the switch-on signal 22 initially appears. When the current setting grid 33 expires, an interval and pulse generator 34 fed from the register of the control circuit 7 supplies a signal and Time 31 'beginning Release signal 35 to the coincidence circuit 19. This therefore switches through and outputs the alarm signal 24, as long as both the switch-on signal 22 from the pointer scanning device 21 and the release signal 35 are still present. In the case of an electromechanical wake-up time scanning device 21 which is customary in the prior art, the switch-on signal delivered via it is typically present for between thirty and forty-five minutes until the scanning contact paths open again in the course of the further rotation of the pointer mechanism, which is queried in terms of operation. For this reason, the duration of the alarm signal 24 is expediently limited (in particular in order to avoid a permanent load on the electrical power source of a wireless appointment clock 1) by means of the duration of the enable signal 35, in which, when it disappears, the coincidence condition of the circuit 19 again goes out. The interval and pulse generator 34 is therefore not only designed to switch through in the fixed rhythm of the adjustment grid 33 also implemented on the clutch 32; in addition, it contains a monostable characteristic based, for example, on a counting basis, in order to limit the output of signal 35 in time. Instead or in addition, a flip-flop 36 can also be provided in front of or behind the coincidence circuit 19, which cancels this coincidence condition a circuit-specific time period after the coincidence-related alarm signal 24 is inserted, or blocks the forwarding of the output alarm signal 24.

Der Einsatz einer solcher Kippstufe 36 in bistabiler Ausführung zwischen der Zeigerwerks-Abtasteinrichtung 21 und der Koinzidenzschaltung 19 weist darüberhinaus den Vorteil auf, dadurch sicherstellen zu können, daß bei langanstehendem Einschaltsignal 22 nicht im Rhythmus des Einstell-Rasters 33, also mit dem Erscheinen der Folge von weiteren Signalgabe-Zeitpunkten 31', erneut ein Signal 24 zur Alarmgabe ausgelöst wird. Denn wenn diese bistabile Kippstufe 36 einen auf Einsetzen der Steuerinformation dynamisch ansprechenden Setzeingang 37 aufweist, dann kann die aus dem Alarmsignal 24 zeitverzögert rückgesetzte Kippstufe 36 nur und erst dann erneut zur Vorbereitung der Koinzidenzbedingung gesetzt werden, wenn das über die Zeigerwerk-Abtasteinrichtung 21 ausgelöste Einschaltsignal 22 nach entsprechenden Weiterlauf der Zeiger 10 beendet wurde und dann mit erneutem Erreichen einer Alarmgabe-Zeiteinstellung erneut wieder erscheint.The use of such a flip-flop 36 in a bistable design between the pointer movement scanning device 21 and the coincidence circuit 19 also has the advantage of being able to ensure that, in the event of a long-lasting switch-on signal 22, not in the rhythm of the setting grid 33, that is to say when the Sequence of further signaling times 31 ', a signal 24 for alarming is triggered again. Because if this bistable flip-flop 36 has a set input 37 that is dynamically responsive to the onset of the control information, then the flip-flop 36 reset with a time delay from the alarm signal 24 can only be set again in preparation for the coincidence condition when the switch-on signal triggered by the pointer scanning device 21 is activated 22 after the corresponding continuation of the pointer 10 has ended and then reappears when an alarm time setting is reached again.

So kann mit einer herkömmlichen, auch großes Schaltspiel aufweisenden ibs. elektromechanischen Signalgabe-Abtasteinrichtung 21 dennoch eine sekundengenau-funkgesteuerte Ausgabe eines zeitlich begrenzten Alarmsignales 24 bewirkt werden.For example, with a conventional ibs that also has a large switching cycle. electromechanical signaling sampling device 21 nevertheless a radio-controlled output of a time-limited alarm signal 24 can be effected to the exact second.

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Termin-Funkuhr (1) mit Abtasteinrichtung (21) zum Auslösen des Einschaltsignales (22, 22') für ein Alarmsignal (24),
dadurch gekennzeichnet,
daß die Abtasteinrichtung (21) derart zeitverschoben justiert ist, daß die Ansprech-Toleranz des Abtast-Schaltspieles (30) vor Auftreten des angewählten Zeitpunktes liegt und daß somit vorzeitig von der Abtasteinrichtung (21) ausgegebene Einschaltsignal (22, 22') erst zur Ausgabe des Alarmsignales (24) durchschaltbar ist, indem Koinzidenz gegeben ist mit der danach erst auftretenden, funkgesteuert korrigierten tatsächlichen Zeitinformation (5) entsprechend dem vom Alarmzeit-Zeiger (27) angegebenen Zeitpunkt.
Appointment radio clock (1) with scanning device (21) for triggering the switch-on signal (22, 22 ') for an alarm signal (24),
characterized,
that the scanning device (21) is adjusted such that the response tolerance of the scanning switching cycle (30) lies before the occurrence of the selected point in time and that the switch-on signal (22, 22 ') output by the scanning device (21) prematurely is only for output of the alarm signal (24) can be switched through in that there is coincidence with the radio-controlled corrected actual time information (5) that only occurs after this, corresponding to the time indicated by the alarm time pointer (27).
Termin-Funkuhr nach Anspruch 1,
dadurch gekennzeichnet,
daß nur Alarmzeitpunkte in einem Einstell-Raster (33) über den Alarmzeit-Zeiger (27) vorgebbar sind, das größer als die Toleranzspanne des Abtast-Schaltspieles (30) ist.
Appointment radio clock according to claim 1,
characterized,
that only alarm times in a setting grid (33) can be specified via the alarm time pointer (27), which is greater than the tolerance range of the sampling switching cycle (30).
Termin-Funkuhr nach Anspruch 1 oder 2,
dadurch gekennzeichnet,
daß eine Rückstell-Kippstufe (36) zur Beendigung des ausgegebenen Alarmsignales (24) vorgesehen ist.
Appointment radio clock according to claim 1 or 2,
characterized,
that a reset flip-flop (36) is provided to terminate the alarm signal (24).
Termin-Funkuhr nach Anspruch 1 oder 2,
dadurch gekennzeichnet,
daß ein Geber (34) zur zeitlichen Koinzidenz-Begrenzung über die Länge des Freigabesignales (35) vorgesehen ist.
Appointment radio clock according to claim 1 or 2,
characterized,
that an encoder (34) for temporal coincidence limitation over the length of the release signal (35) is provided.
Termin-Funkuhr nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche,
dadurch gekennzeichnet,
daß eine Rast-Kupplung (32) für Einstellbarkeit des Alarmzeitpunktes nur im Einstell-Raster (33) vorgesehen ist.
Appointment radio clock according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized,
that a locking clutch (32) for adjustability of the alarm time is provided only in the setting grid (33).
Termin-Funkuhr nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche,
dadurch gekennzeichnet,
daß eine Kippstufe (36) vorgesehen ist, die ein von der Abtasteinrichtung (21) geliefertes Einschaltsignal (22, 22) nur und erst bei erneutem Erscheinen eines Einschaltsignales (22) nach Beendigung des zuvor ausgelösten Alarmsignales (24) für Koinzidenzabfrage mit einem weiteren Freigabesignal (35) ausgibt.
Appointment radio clock according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized,
that a flip-flop (36) is provided, which receives a switch-on signal (22, 22) supplied by the scanning device (21) only and only when a switch-on signal (22) reappears after the previously triggered alarm signal (24) for coincidence interrogation with a further release signal (35) outputs.
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