PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150119676A1
• 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: OKUDA, Hideki, TERASAWA, Dai, KATO, Teruo
• Granted Patent: US 9,259,182 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/388
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/002 adapted to accommodate electronic equipment patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1281 with incorporated means for medical monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• 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 5/282 Holders for multiple electrodes for introduction into the body A61B5/287
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes

Abstract

To improve product lifetime as well as to increase wearing feeling, maintainability and productivity, and to suppress manufacturing costs and expenses of the user. A portable electronic device 10 includes a device body 20 arranged inside a garment W and housing an electronic component and a fixing member 30A formed separately from the device body 20 and arranged outside the garment W, which fixes the device body 20 so as to be attached and detached to and from the garment W in a state of sandwiching the garment W between the fixing member 30A and the device bogy 20 from the other side of the garment W. The fixing member 30A is formed so as to be elastically deformed, which is formed in a ring shape surrounding the device body 20. Gaps are provided on both sides of the device body 20 in the radial direction of the fixing member 30A between an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member 30A and the device body 20.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

a device body arranged in one side of the front side and the reverse side of a garment and housing an electronic component; and

a fixing member formed separately from the device body and arranged in the other side of the front side and the reverse side of the garment, which fixes the device body so as to be attached and detached to and from the garment in a state of sandwiching the garment between the fixing member and the device body from the other side of the front side and the reverse side of the garment.

2. The portable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the fixing member fixes an outer peripheral portion of the device body at least at two places.

3. The portable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the device body includes a locked portion to which the fixing member is locked, and

the fixing member is formed so as to be elastically deformed, including a locking portion which can be locked to the locked portion.

4. The portable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the fixing member is formed in a ring shape surrounding the device body.

5. The portable electronic device according to claim 4,

wherein a gap is provided at least in one side of the device body in a radial direction of the fixing member between an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member and the device body.

6. The portable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the fixing member includes a protective portion covering at least part of the device body through the garment from the other side of the front side and the reverse side of the garment.

7. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

the device body;

a pair of electrode portions connected to the device body and contacting a biological surface; and

a biological information detecting unit detecting biological information based on a potential difference generated in the pair of electrode portions.