Wearable step-counting shoe

• US 10,206,448 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2017
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Homeway Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Homeway Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hsieh, Chin-Hsing, Hsieh, Tsung-Hsien, Hsieh, Ming-Chia, Hsieh, Tung-Chen
• Primary Examiner(s): Bays, Marie D
• Application Number:
  US15/402,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20170325538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: 36136, 36137, 36139, 36132
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 13/00 Soles; Sole-and-heel integral units
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/34 with electrical or electronic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/35 with electric heating arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/14 with foot-supporting parts
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/32 with shock-absorbing means resilient soles A43B13/18
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6807 Footwear
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/17 Counting, e.g. counting periodical movements, revolutions or cycles, or including further data processing to determine distances or speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/836 Sensors arranged on the body of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers

Abstract

A wearable step-counting shoe includes a shoe body and a pedometer. The shoe body includes a shoe sole having opposite inner and outer sides, and a groove surface defining amounting groove. The pedometer is removably disposed in the mounting groove and includes a pedometer body having opposite first and second faces and configured to detect and record the number of steps taken by a user, and a screen disposed on the second face and configured to display the detected number of steps. An engaging unit is provided to fix the pedometer on the shoe body, and includes a first engaging portion provided on the groove surface, and a second engaging portion provided on the pedometer and releasably engageable with the first engaging portion.

Claims

1. A wearable step-counting shoe comprising:

a shoe body including a shoe sole having opposite inner and outer sides, and a groove surface extending from said inner side toward said outer side and defining a mounting groove;

a pedometer removably disposed in said mounting groove and including a pedometer body configured to detect and record the number of steps taken by a user, and a screen configured to display the detected number of steps, said pedometer body having a first face facing said shoe sole, and a second face opposite to said first face, said screen being disposed on said second face; and

an engaging unit to fix said pedometer on said shoe body, said engaging unit including a first engaging portion provided on said groove surface of said shoe sole, and a second engaging portion provided on said pedometer and releasably engageable with said first engaging portions;

wherein said first engaging portion includes a recess that is formed in said groove surface and that communicates with said mounting groove, and said second engaging portion includes a protrusion protruding outwardly from said pedometer body and releasably engageable with said recess.

2. The wearable step-counting shoe as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pedometer further includes a reset button disposed on said second face of said pedometer body and configured to reset the recorded number of steps to zero.

3. The wearable step-counting shoe as claimed in claim 2, wherein said reset button is a silicone button.

4. The wearable step-counting shoe as claimed in claim 1, wherein said groove surface completely separates said mounting groove from other parts of said shoe sole.

5. The wearable step-counting shoe as claimed in claim 1, comprising at least two separate first engaging portions and at least two separate second engaging portions.

6. The wearable step-counting shoe as claimed in claim 5, wherein said at least two second engaging portions are located on opposite sides of the pedometer body from each other.