An electronic watch having a circuit for permitting it to be stopped in a state of minimum consumption. The watch has an oscillator, a frequency divider comprising flip-flops and a display, with the display and at least some of said flip-flops being connected to a common line so that a signal applied to the common line places them in a state of minimum consumption. The circuit including a switch connected between the common line and a terminal of the power supply and at least two MOS transistors…

The invention relates to a plate-like electronic member, e.g., an electro luminescence element or the like, and an electronic device. In the electronic member (1) of the invention, first and second electrodes are formed on respective surface of a plate-like electronic member body a first electrode connecting portion is formed on the first electrode, and, a second electrode connecting portion which is electrically connected with the second electrode is formed on a same side of the first electrode…

An EL display having high operating performance and reliability is provided. LDD regions 15a through 15d of a switching TFT 201 formed in a pixel are formed such that they do not overlap gate electrodes 19a and 19b to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the reduction of an off-current. An LDD region 22 of a current control TFT 202 is formed such that it partially overlaps a gate electrode 35 to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the prevention of hot carrier inje…

An electronic velocimeter being readily adaptable for measuring the magnitude and direction of a velocity of a moving element. A transducer is responsive to the moving element and produces an output signal having frequency proportional to the velocity of the moving element. A circuit is provided for measuring the variations in frequency and producing a DC output signal as a function thereof.

An electronic computer having an arrangement for shifting the characters stored in selected registers of the memory is disclosed, wherein the shift of the characters is controlled by an instruction causing a control unit to select the register to be shifted and to activate the arrangement. The arrangement comprises a one-character register which is first connected by the control unit with the last significant stage of the selected register for exchanging the characters stored therein. The one-ch…

The operative components of an electronic timepiece are mounted side by said on a base plate in such a manner that any of the individual components can be separately removed without disturbing the other components.

An electronic timepiece comprises means for selectively displaying the time including at least one of date, day of the week, hour, minute and second, and means for rapidly adjusting or correcting said displayed time, thus making possible the rapid time correction or adjustment with simple construction, and with minimum operation switches.

There is disclosed herein an electronic photoflash circuit including means for rapidly and accurately terminating a light flash and/or blocking discharge of a photoflash energy storage capacitor. The circuit involves use of a switching device connected in series with a photoflash tube wherein the beginning of ionization of the photoflash tube affects turn on one of the series switching device. Additionally, the circuit includes means for activating a light sensing circuit, and there is disclosed…

The invention provides means for both driving the electronic mechanism of a watch from a high-voltage source, but also a liquid crystal time display. The source, which may be derived from an irradiated isotope, is connected to electrostatically drive a flat spring resonator. The pulsating current to an electrode of the resonator passes through a transformer (or capacitor) from which a pulsating d.c. is derived by rectification to supply operating current to a counter, a coder, and a crystal time…

A dryer includes a cabinet having a drying chamber mounted therein. A blower connected by a duct to the drying chamber draws air through the chamber from openings provided in both the chamber and the cabinet. The output of a source of microwave energy is introduced into the duct which functions as a waveguide to direct the microwave energy to the drying chamber. As the microwave energy heats and causes to vaporize the water in the articles to be dried, the evaporated moisture is drawn out of the…