WEARABLE DEVICES WITH MAGNETS ENCASED BY A MATERIAL THAT REDISTRIBUTES THEIR MAGNETIC FIELDS

• US 20140246502A1
• Filed: 02/13/2014
• Published: 09/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fitbit, Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hello, Inc.
• Inventors: Proud, James, Fan, Bryan, Shook, Robert, Fernandez, Joaquin
• Application Number:
  US14/180,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20140246502A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/492
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Abstract

A wearable device includes one or more sensors coupled to a wearable device structure that includes first and second outer surfaces, an interior, a first end and a second end. The wearable device structure includes and has a unique user ID. The one or more sensors acquire user information selected from of at least one of, a user'"'"'s activities, behaviors, habit information, health parameters, medical monitoring and user monitoring. A plurality of magnets are at the first end and a plurality of magnets at the second end, with at least a portion of the magnets being at least partially encased with a material that redistributes a magnet'"'"'s magnetic field. The wearable device is worn with the first and second ends being coupled by overlapping at least a portion of the first end magnets to at least a portion of the second end magnets.

Claims

17-1. The device of claim 1, wherein a distance between overlapped magnets on the first end to magnets of the second is 0.1 to 10 mm.