Abstract: A receiving circuit is provided with an amplifier circuit for amplifying the electric signal received by an antenna circuit, a frequency converter/detector circuit for converting a frequency of the electric signal amplified by the amplifier circuit to acquire an intermediate frequency signal, and for detecting the intermediate frequency signal to acquire a demodulated signal, and a filter circuit for removing an intermediate frequency component from the demodulated signal acquired by the frequency converter/detector circuit.

Abstract: An electronic device which includes a radio wave impermeably cylindrical case, a radio wave permeable cover covering an opening in one end of the case, a radio wave impermeable cover covering an opening in the other end of the case, and a circuit board and an antenna, both arranged between the two covers in the inner space. The antenna is connected to the board and includes an elongated core and a coil wound around an intermediate portion of the core. Magnetic flux introducing portions are provided on both end portions of the core, a radio wave permeable partition plate is arranged between the permeable cover and the antenna in the inner space, and a pair of flat and magnetic members are arranged between the partition plate and the antenna in the inner space and are magnetically connected to the flux introducing portions.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna for receiving a time information radio wave, and an antenna support member. In the antenna, a coil is wound around a center portion of a core. In the support member, a non-magnetic portion supports two magnetic portions independently and both end portions of the core of the antenna are magnetically coupled with the magnetic portions. A radio wave controlled timepiece includes a case in an inner space of which the antenna and the support member are installed as described above. In the inner space, a time counting unit, a time display unit connected to the time counting unit, and a time updating unit configured to update the time displayed on the display unit, based on the time information radio wave received by the antenna, are installed.

Abstract: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.

Abstract: The antenna circuit 42 includes: an MI magnetic sensor having an electric property which changes in accordance with a magnetic field change; a radio-frequency signal generator S1 to apply a radio-frequency signal to the MI magnetic sensor Z1; an inverter 92 to invert the radio-frequency signal; an adder 94 to reduce the radio-frequency signal by adding the inverted signal with a received signal obtained by the MI magnetic sensor Z1; and detectors D1 and D2 to detect the received signal in which the radio-frequency signal has been reduced. Further, included are a resonant circuit 620 including a magnetic sensor circuit Z1 and a resonant element such as quartz to retrieve a magnetic field change of a resonant frequency from a detected magnetic field change; and a resistance R0. Further, the magnetic sensor circuit 610 includes a magnetoresistance element 612, a DC power source 611 and a resistance R1.

Abstract: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.

Abstract: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.

Abstract: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.

Abstract: In the radio-wave receiving apparatus according to the invention, a signal received by a receiving antenna is amplified and the amplified received signal is input into a multi-stage frequency conversion circuit including a plurality of basic circuits connected in series. The multi-stage frequency conversion circuit converts the frequency of the received signal from the antenna into frequencies based on signals input from the frequency divider circuit sequentially, thereby to output a signal “a” which is obtained by conversions into gradually lower frequencies. Detection is performed by a detection circuit on the basis of the signal. Thereby, a radio-wave receiving apparatus which requires no local oscillating circuit nor a PLL circuit and is also stable in operation and high in accuracy is realized.

Abstract: An antenna includes a rod-like core configured by an amorphous metal formed into a bulk configuration, and a coil wound around the core. An electronic device includes a case encasing the antenna, a sectional area of each longitudinal end portion of the core being larger than that of a central portion of the core. The antenna may be disposed under a radio wave permeable decorative plate in such a manner that a magnetic sheet is attached to each end portion of the core to protrude outwards from the core or that an expanded portion is disposed in each end portion and has such a shape to make a side of a surface of the expanded portion facing the decorative plate receive more radio wave than a side of a surface of the expanded portion opposite to the facing surface in relation to an axial line of the antenna.

Abstract: When lack of a part data on a time code included in a received standard radio wave is detected, the lack is filled up with a corresponding data part of another time code. The time of a radio-wave timepiece is corrected in accordance with the time code whose lack has been filled up.

Abstract: A frequency switching signal for switching a reception frequency of an antenna based on a reception success or failure signal output from a detection circuit and a standard time code output from a demodulator is output to a reception frequency selection circuit. The reception frequency is switched to the frequency which is the same as an intermediate frequency other than that of the standard radio waves, and at the same time, an output temporarily stopping signal is output to a local oscillation circuit to temporarily stop the output of a local oscillation signal of the local oscillation circuit, enabling to output the reception signal which was received by the antenna as the intermediate frequency signal without synthesizing and converting it in the frequency conversion circuit to be detected by a detection circuit. Thereby, the reception of the radio wave composed of a plurality of frequencies can be realized with a simple structure.

Abstract: In a radio wave reception device and a radio wave clock capable of receiving multiple frequencies, an intermediate frequency signal whose frequency is fixed can be output while a signal output from a local oscillation circuit (5) is fixed.

Abstract: The antenna main body having the conductor wound around thereon and the radio wave receiving parts for receiving the radio waves are formed independently, the area of the radio wave receiving region of the radio wave receiving parts is formed to be larger than a cross sectional area of the antenna main body in the direction orthogonal to the winding direction of the conductor, and the radio wave receiving parts are arranged so as to be in contact with the antenna main body at the ends in the winding direction of the conductor.

Abstract: An SW control circuit turns ON and OFF a switch circuit provided between a reception antenna and an RF amplifier circuit, based on a noise removal control signal which is generated by a timing generation circuit and has a constant pulse width and a constant pulse interval, and thus the antenna is periodically short-circuited. In this way, even when the antenna receives a signal mixed with noise signals, accumulated energy due to the noise signals is periodically released, and thus the noise signals can be removed from the reception signal, and long lasting influence caused by the accumulated energy of the noise signals can be also removed.

Abstract: A time information transmission-reception integrated circuit includes: a reception control circuit for detecting a signal obtained by receiving and amplifying an external radio wave, and generating a clock data signal, based on a carrier signal the phase of which is synchronized with the signal; and a transmission control circuit for generating an amplitude modulation signal obtained by modulating the amplitude of the carrier signal by the transmission time code, by a modulator, and transmitting a relaying radio wave from an antenna, the phase of the relaying radio wave synchronized with the phase of the external radio wave, by correcting the phase shift of the amplitude modulation signal by a phase shifter. Thereby, the phase shift between the external radio wave and the relaying radio wave is cancelled.

Abstract: In a detection circuit that a radio wave receiver for receiving a long wave standard radio wave includes, a circuit is constructed so as to cancel noise components by using a multiplier, a divider, a differentiation circuit and an adder on the basis of a signal obtained by shifting the phase of a carrier signal by 90 degrees, the carrier signal having the same frequency and the same phase as those of the carrier of a received signal outputted from a carrier reproduction circuit. Thereby, it is possible to certainly remove the noises in the vicinity of a received frequency.

Abstract: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.

Abstract: The antenna main body having the conductor wound around thereon and the radio wave receiving parts for receiving the radio waves are formed independently, the area of the radio wave receiving region of the radio wave receiving parts is formed to be larger than a cross sectional area of the antenna main body in the direction orthogonal to the winding direction of the conductor, and the radio wave receiving parts are arranged so as to be in contact with the antenna main body at the ends in the winding direction of the conductor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a charging device for storing electric energy in a plurality of electrical double layer capacitors, comprising a power source circuit, a capacitor bank having a plurality of capacitors, a control circuit for switching an interconnection state of the plurality of capacitors, and a voltage monitor circuit for monitoring a charged voltage in the plurality of capacitors, which repetitively carries out a step of performing a charging operation by switching the plurality of capacitors in the capacitor bank to a serial connection state, and a step of monitoring a charged voltage by using a voltage monitor circuit by switching the plurality of capacitors to a parallel connection state until the charged voltage reaches a predetermined value.