Sports goggle

• US 20050225867A1
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Published: 10/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hideya, Ishiba, Yoshihisa, Ishibashi, Fumio, Shimizu, Eiji
• Granted Patent: US 7,192,137 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/630
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/02 Goggles breathing masks A62B18/00; swimming goggles A63B33/002; diving masks B63C11/12
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0666 worn on the head or face, e.g. combined with goggles or glasses
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 33/004 comprising two separate lenses joined by a flexible bridge
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0176 characterised by mechanical features

Abstract

A sports goggle includes a goggle main body (1) on which information processing means (2) is mounted. The goggle main body (1) has an eye piece portion (3) on which information display means (4) is mounted. Information transmission means of transmission/reception of information on sports to/from outside can be mounted on the goggle main body (1). Furthermore, the information processing means (2) and the information display means (4) may be made as a unitary block. There is provided a sports goggle through which a user can check the displayed information even while performing a sport, can get information judged to be appropriate at appropriate moment in a comparatively short time, can pay attention to the display unit without lowering the sport ability, and can get sophisticated instructions from an instructor or a coach.

Claims

1. A pair of sports goggles comprising:

a goggle main body,

an information processing means mounted on the goggle main body, and

an information display means mounted on an eyepiece portion of the goggle main body.

2. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1 further comprising an information communicating means of transmitting and receiving information on sports to and from the outside, wherein the information communicating means is mounted on the goggle main body.

3. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1, wherein the information processing means and the information display means are integrally formed.

4. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1, wherein the information processing means is a microcomputer housing a central processing unit, a random access memory, a read-only memory and a power source of a secondary cell therein.

5. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1, wherein the information processing means and the information display means are proofed against any one of water, pressure, vibration and drips.

6. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1, wherein the information processing means has a sensing function to check physiological information, temporal change in depth of water, position, velocity of water and velocity of wind.

7. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 4, wherein the information processing means has a navigation system using undersea topographic information which is stored in the memory.

8. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1, wherein image data for reproducing virtual space is loaded into the information processing means, and the image data is displayed by the information display means.

9. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 1, wherein the information display means includes a display device and an optical device.

10. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 9, wherein the display device is any one of a liquid crystal, a cathode ray tube, a semiconductor device, a light-emitting diode, an electroluminescence and a digital micromirror device, and the optical device is any one of a mirror, a prism, a lens and a holographic optical element.

11. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 10, wherein the information display means includes a laminating of the holographic optical element on a surface of the eyepiece and the liquid crystal panel placed inside of the goggle main body so that information displayed on this liquid crystal panel is visible.

12. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 10, wherein the information display means includes the holographic optical element which is insert-molded on a surface of the eyepiece portion and the liquid crystal panel placed inside of the goggle main body so that information displayed on this liquid crystal panel is visible.

13. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 10, wherein the information display means includes the lens which is integrally molded on a surface of the eyepiece portion and the compact-sized cathode ray tube placed outside of the goggle main body so that information displayed by this compact-sizes cathode ray tube is visible.

14. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 10, wherein the information display means includes the holographic optical element which is integrally molded on a surface of the eyepiece portion and the compact-sized digital micromirror element placed on the goggle main body so that information projected by light which the compact-sized digital micromirror element receives from a compact-sized light source is visible.

15. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 2, wherein the information communicating means is any one of a digital radio and an analog radio.

16. The pair of sports goggles according to claim 15, wherein the information communicating means has a system which instantly transmits and receives data and communicates with a outside transmitting and receiving device.