US 11,747,770 B2
Watch and method for controlling watch
Chisato Tezuka, Okaya (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/940,483.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-138616 (JP), filed on Jul. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0034020 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G04G 21/04 (2013.01); G04R 20/04 (2013.01); G04R 60/10 (2013.01); G04G 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC G04R 20/04 (2013.01) [G04G 17/04 (2013.01); G04G 21/04 (2013.01); G04R 60/10 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A watch, comprising:
a dial;
a first pointer having a first conductive portion and configured to rotate about a first shaft as an axis;
a second pointer having a second conductive portion and configured to rotate at a rotational speed faster than that of the first pointer about a second shaft, which is coaxial with the first shaft, as an axis;
a drive mechanism configured to rotate the first pointer and the second pointer;
a controller configured to control rotation of the first pointer and the second pointer; and
an antenna disposed, in plan view viewed from a direction parallel to the first shaft, at a position overlapping a rotation range of the first conductive portion and a rotation range of the second conductive portion, and configured to receive a radio wave,
wherein the antenna includes a pair of planar conductor elements that overlap an entirety of the dial in a plan view of the watch; and
in response to the antenna receiving the radio wave, the controller is configured to rotate the second pointer and stop the second pointer at a reception indication position, and after rotating and stopping the second pointer, the controller is configured to rotate the first pointer such that the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion overlap each other in the plan view.