Timepiece assembly comprising a mechanical oscillator associated with an electronic device for controlling its mean frequency

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PATENT NO 11327440
APP PUB NO 20200103827A1
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16573022

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A timepiece is provided with a mechanical movement which includes a mechanical resonator, a sensor detecting oscillations of the mechanical resonator, and a braking device arranged to generate braking pulses in response to a control signal provided by a control circuit associated with an auxiliary oscillator. The control circuit is arranged to be capable of detecting a negative or positive temporal drift in the oscillation of the mechanical resonator and to generate, in a correction period, in association with the braking device, when the temporal drift corresponds to at least a certain loss, a series of braking pulses which are applied to the mechanical resonator at a frequency FSUP in a given range of values which is preferably higher than a frequency FZ (N)=2·F0c/N, F0c being a set point frequency for the mechanical resonator and N a positive integer number.

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THE SWATCH GROUP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LTDSWISS MA LIN MARIN-EPAGNIER NEUCHATEL

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Imboden, Matthias St-Blaise, CH 36 32
Tombez, Lionel Bevaix, CH 57 104

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