Patent ID: 8194506
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G04G,G04R

Abstract:
1. An analog radio controlled clock, comprising: a housing; a plurality of indicating hands rotatably supported within said housing; a driving control unit disposed within said housing and communicated with said indicating hands for driving said indicating hands to move at a predetermined interval for indicating time in a continuous basis; a radio controlled unit provided in said housing and electrically communicated with said driving control unit, wherein said radio controlled unit is adapted to receive radio signal from a reference time station to obtain information of current time, wherein said information of said current time is transmitted to said driving control unit to drive said indicating hands to corresponding positions indicating corresponding current time; and an audio alarm arrangement, which comprises: an alarm control unit disposed in said housing to communicate with said driving control unit for allowing setup of an alarm time; and an audio device which is electrically connected with said alarm control unit, and is arranged to generate interactive audible signal to a user regarding setting of said alarm time, wherein said audio device is arranged to receive predetermined commands and transmit said commands received from said user to said alarm control unit to accomplish setup of said alarm time, so that said user is able to set up said alarm time through said command input to said audio device in response to said audible signal, wherein said alarm setting is modified by operating a plurality of actuating switches in response to at least one of first and second audible instructions in the following manner: first, said audio device is first arranged to produce said first audible instruction as to a first alarm setting of said analog radio controlled clock, wherein said first alarm setting corresponds to a first time on said analog radio controlled clock; second, when said first audible instruction is produced, said user is able to actuate at least one of said actuating switches to confirm said first alarm setting as a current alarm setting, or to modify said first alarm setting; wherein when said first alarm setting meets a desired alarm setting, said first alarm setting is confirmed as said current alarm setting, wherein when said first alarm setting does not meet a desirable alarm setting, said first alarm setting is commanded to be modified; third, when said first alarm setting is commanded to be modified, said audio device is arranged to deliver said second audible instruction as to a second alarm setting of said analog radio controlled clock, wherein said second alarm setting corresponds to a second time on said analog radio controlled clock; and fourth, in response to said second audible instruction, said user is able to actuate at least one of said actuating switches to confirm said second alarm setting as a current alarm setting or to modify said second alarm setting, wherein said user is able to repetitively command modifying of said alarm settings until said alarm setting meets said desired alarm setting and is confirmed as said current alarm setting.