WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150185766A1
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: OTSUKA, YU, INOUE, YUKINARI, HAMANAKA, HIRAKU, TERUI, MITSUAKI, FUJITA, HIROSHI, HISATAKE, GORO
• Granted Patent: US 9,274,555 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0053 by applying pressure, e.g. compression, indentation, palpation, grasping, gauging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02422 within occluders
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6824 Arm or wrist
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/045 Mounting of the display
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/08 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266

Abstract

A wearable electronic device according to the present disclosure includes a first belt, front surface of the first belt being provided with a displaying unit having a curved display face; a second belt; a hinge that connects a first end of the first belt to a first end of the second belt. A shape of a space formed by the first and second belts is an elliptical shape when the device worn around a subject is viewed from a side. The hinge has higher flexibility than the first and second belts. The device has a first engagement unit provided at a second end and a rear surface of the first belt, and in a region where the elliptical shape has smaller curvature than other regions. The device has a second engagement unit provided at an outer side of the second belt and engaging with the first engagement unit.

Claims

1. A wearable electronic device, comprising:

a first belt, front surface of the first belt being provided with a display having a curved display face;

a second belt;

a hinge that connects a first end of the first belt to a first end of the second belt, a shape formed by the first belt and the second belt capable of being an elliptical shape when the wearable electronic device worn around a subject is viewed from a side of the wearable electric device, and the hinge having higher flexibility than the first belt and the second belt;

a first engagement unit that is provided at a second end and a rear surface of the first belt, the second end of the first belt being opposite the first end of the first belt, and the first engagement unit being provided in a region of the rear surface of the first belt, in the region, the elliptical shape having smaller curvature than other regions of the elliptical shape; and

a second engagement unit that is provided at an outer side of the second belt and that engages with the first engagement unit.

2. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the first belt is capable of being semielliptical arc shape when the wearable electronic device is viewed from a side of the wearable electronic device, and

wherein the second belt is capable of being semielliptical arc shape when the wearable electronic device is viewed from a side of the wearable electronic device.

3. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein when the wearable electronic device worn around the subject is viewed from the side of the wearable electronic device, the wearable electronic device is divided into a first portion and a second portion by a virtual line extending through a center of the elliptical shape and a middle of the hinge, and the second engagement unit is provided at an outer surface of the second belt within the second portion, the first portion extending from the middle of the hinge to a position where the virtual line intersects with the first belt, the second portion extending from the middle of the hinge to a position where the virtual line intersects with the second belt.

4. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein one of the first engagement unit and the second engagement unit has guide grooves, the guide grooves being arranged in a circumferential direction of the elliptical shape, and

wherein the other one of the first engagement unit and the second engagement unit has projections, the projections being fitted into the guide grooves when the wearable electronic device is worn around the subject.

5. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising;

a third belt having higher flexibility than the first belt and the second belt, the third belt being connected to an edge side of the second engagement unit at a second end of the second belt, the second end of the second belt being opposite the first end of the second belt connected to the hinge,

wherein when the electronic device is worn around the subject, the first belt overlaps an outer surface of the third belt.

6. The wearable electronic device according to claim 5,

wherein the third belt includes a flexible battery therein.

7. The wearable electronic device according to claim 5,

wherein the third belt includes

a flexible battery, and

a cover attached to one of principal surfaces of the flexible battery,

wherein the cover has sidewalls along a side surface of the flexible battery, the side walls extending in a circumferential direction of the elliptical shape, and

wherein the sidewalls include a plurality of protrusions that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the elliptical shape, gaps being interposed between each of the plurality of protrusions, and the plurality of protrusions protruding toward another one of the principal surfaces of the flexible battery.

8. The wearable electronic device according to claim 7,

wherein when the third belt is bent toward the other one of the surfaces of the flexible battery, each of the protrusions contacts with the adjacent one or more of the protrusions.

9. The wearable electronic device according to claim 8,

wherein when the cover is viewed from the other one of the surfaces of the flexible battery, each of the gaps is V-shaped, and

wherein when the third belt is bent toward the other one of the surfaces of the flexible battery, each of the protrusions meshes with the adjacent one or more of the protrusions.

10. The wearable electronic device according to claim 7,

wherein a bending regulation member is provided in each of the gaps, and

wherein when the third belt is bent toward the other one of the surfaces of the flexible battery, each bending regulation member contacts with the protrusions adjacent to the bending regulation member.

11. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a sensor that is provided at the rear surface of the first belt and that contacts with the subject when the wearable electronic device is worn around the subject.

12. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit that is provided in the second belt and that communicates wirelessly with an external device.

13. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the second belt is provided with a substrate equipped with a circuit, and

wherein the hinge is provided with a flexible substrate that connects the display to the substrate.

14. The wearable electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising;

a battery, the first belt has the battery at a position other than a position where the displaying unit is provided in the first belt.