Patent ID: 6603236
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: G04C,H02K

Abstract:
An electronic timepiece comprising:a generator comprising: a rotor including a permanent magnet; a yoke composed of sheets of amorphous magnetic material and disposed in the vicinity of said rotor in which magnetic flux flows, wherein said yoke comprises a stator comprising a Co amorphous metal magnetic material that is at least 50% Co by weight, and wherein no coil is wound around said stator; a coil disposed in the vicinity of said yoke, wherein said yoke comprises at least two magnetic members formed so as to be substantially in contact with each other partially or entirely through respective non-curved first and second side-faces thereof with no overlap between said two magnetic members, and at least one of said two members materials comprises the amorphous metal magnetic material; and a pressure adjuster for adjusting a contact pressure of said first and second side-faces.