GARMENT

• US 20150119675A1
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KANEKO, Takahiro, TERASAWA, Dai, OKUDA, Hideki, KATO, Teruo
• Granted Patent: US 10,034,500 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/388
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1281 with incorporated means for medical monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 27/205 Pockets adapted to receive a mobile phone or other electronic equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0245 by using sensing means generating electric signals, i.e. ECG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/25 Bioelectric electrodes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/256 Wearable electrodes, e.g. having straps or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/28 for electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6805 Vests

Abstract

Provision of a garment capable of positively holding a biological information detecting device and suppressing the reduction of product lifetime to realize improvement in productivity and reduction of costs. A garment 100A includes a garment body 101 and a device housing portion 120 provided in the garment body 101 and holding a heart rate measuring device 10 having a device body 20 and electrodes 26A and 26B contacting a biological surface so as to be attached/detached, in which the device housing portion 120 holds part of the device body 20 in a state where the electrodes 26A and 26B are exposed toward the biological surface side. The device housing portion 120 houses the device body 20 in a stretched state.

Claims

1. A garment formed so that a biological information detecting device having a device body and electrode portions contacting a biological surface can be attached and detached to and from a garment body, comprising:

a device housing portion housing the device body in a state where the electrode portions are exposed toward the biological surface side.

2. The garment according to claim 1,

wherein the device housing portion is made of a material having stretch property, housing the device body in a stretched state.

3. The garment according to claim 1,

wherein the device housing portions are arranged along a first direction in plane directions of the garment body to form a housing portion group.

4. The garment according to claim 3,

wherein plural housing portion groups are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in plane directions of the garment body, and

the device housing portion of one housing portion group adjacent to another housing portion group is positioned between device housing portions in that other housing portion group in the first direction.

5. The garment according to claim 4,

wherein the device body is housed in plural device housing portions so as to bridge between the device housing portions in plural housing portion groups.

6. The garment according to claim 1,

wherein the garment body is worn in the upper half of a body,

plural device housing portions are arranged along a lengthwise direction, and

a separation distance between the device housing portions arranged in one line and the device housing portions arranged in another line is gradually reduced from an upper part of the garment body toward a lower part thereof.

7. The garment according to claim 1,

wherein plural device housing portions are connected, and

the device housing portion positioned at one end side in the plural device housing portions is fixed to the garment body, and the device housing portion positioned in the other end side is formed so as to be rotatable with the device housing portion positioned at one end side as an origin.

8. The garment according to claim 1,

wherein the device housing portion is provided in an obverse surface side of the garment body, and

the garment body has slits at outer sides of the device housing portion for allowing the electrode portions to be drawn out to a reverse surface side of the garment body.