Abstract: A timepiece has rotatable hour, minute and second hands each carrying an energizeable element. Electric power is supplied to the elements carried by the hour and minute hands through sliding contacts and is supplied to the element carried by the second hand through electromagnetically coupled coils. The drive torque applied to the hour and minute hands is greater than that applied to the second hand and easily overcomes the frictional drag associated with the sliding contacts. The lower drive torque applied to the second hand may not be sufficient to overcome the frictional drag associated with sliding contacts and to avoid this problem, electromagnetically coupled coils instead of sliding contacts are used to supply electric power to the element carried by the second hand.

Abstract: A power supply device for a hand with a luminescence element which is adapted to supply electric power to the luminescence element mounted on the hand.

Abstract: A timepiece comprises a display including a light emitting element. A detector detects ambient light around the timepiece and a switch is switchable into first and second operating modes. When the switch is in the first mode the light emitting element is illuminated at a first brightness level when the detected ambient light is below a predetermined level and the light emitting element is not illuminated when the detected ambient light is above the predetermined level. When the switch is in the second mode, the light emitting element is illuminated at a second brightness level which is greater than the first brightness level.

Abstract: A power supply system for luminous hands wherein an hour and a minute hand have electroluminescence elements and a second hand has a light-emitting diode. The power supply system comprises a drive signal generator for generating a mixed signal consisting of a high-frequency signal and a low-frequency signal. An hour hand brush conductor between a fixed member and the hour hand receives the mixed signal. An hour hand filter passes only the low-frequency signal and sends it to the electroluminescence element of the hour hand. A minute hand brush conductor device placed between the hour hand and the minute hand receives the mixed signal from said hour hand brush conductor device. A minute hand filter passes only the low-frequency signal of the mixed signal and sends the low-frequency signal to the electroluminescence element of the minute hand.

Abstract: An impregnated cathode comprising a cathode obtained by impregnating pore portions of a refractory porous substrate with an electron emissive material containing Ba and formed thereon a plurality of thin films made of a high melting metal and Sc, or a high melting metal and a Sc oxide, or a high melting metal, Sc and a Sc oxide, or a high melting metal and a compound of Sc, W and O, said thin films having the same composition but different densities can maintain good emission characteristics even after the sealing off step of tube production because the thin films formed on the cathode surface are oxidation-resistant.

Abstract: A circuit unit including a plurality of lead frames which are made of a metal sheet and one of which is used for die-bonding an integrated circuit. The die-bonding lead member is formed to have at least a generally H-shaped portion constructed of a pair of parallel side portions and a connecting portion for connecting the two side portions for die-bonding the integrated circuit thereto. The remaining lead members are separated from said die-bonding one and have individual end portions positioned in the vicinity of the integrated circuit and connected electrically therewith by means of bonding wires. The die-bonding lead member and the remaining lead members are integrated either with a potting resin for protection the integrated circuit or with the potting resin and/or an insulating plate backing the potting resin. The aforementioned two side portions are fixed on a holding member. Also disclosed is a process for fabricating the aforementioned circuit unit.

Abstract: An impregnated cathode comprising a refractory porous body whose pore parts are impregnated with an electron emissive material including barium and a thin film layer comprising tungsten, scandium and/or an oxide of scandium, deposited on the surface of the refractory porous body, characterized in that the thin film layer contains an oxide of tungsten, and/or an oxide of tungsten and scandium, has a distinguished electron emission property and a long life.

Abstract: A method of connecting a coil as mounted in an electric watch or clock in which a lead wire of the coil is made to cross a conductor near the terminal portion of the coil. The lead wire is drawn so as to traverse beyond a conductor to which it is to be attached, and the lead wire is anchored by an anchoring device so as to hold it against the conductor. The lead wire is then bonded to the conductor at the point of traverse.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an impregnated cathode produced by attaching at least two layered thin films, the thin films comprising an under layer consisting of a high melting point metal thin film composed of, for example, Os, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ir, Pt, Re, Mo, W, Ta, etc., and an over layer consisting of a high melting point metal layer which contains Sc.sub.2 O.sub.3 and which is placed over the layer, on the surface of the impregnated cathode pellet generated by impregnating a refractory porous base body with electron emissive materials. The invention relates also to an electron tube having this cathode. This cathode maintains a low work functional mono-layer stably for a long period of time on its surface.