WEARABLE DEVICE

• US 20150296963A1
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YOON, Byoung-Uk, YI, Young-Jin, BYUN, Dong-Hyun, KIM, Dong-Hyeon
• Granted Patent: US 9,918,541 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0516 Portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0525 Personal portable computing devices, e.g. laptop, tablet, netbook, game boy, navigation system, calculator
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/08 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt

Abstract

A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a clip type wearing part including at least two first and second openings, and a body configured to fit to and to separate from the clip type wearing part. The clip type changeable wearing part includes a safe mounting part which is formed to have a shape of covering a circumference and bottom of the first opening, and to which the body is fitted, and at least a portion of the second opening is opened in the safe mounting part.

Claims

1. A wearable device comprising:

a changeable wearing part comprising an opening; and

a body configured to tightly fit to and to separate from the opening,

wherein the changeable wearing part is formed to have a shape of covering a lateral surface circumference of the opening and a bottom of the opening, and comprises a safe mounting part elastically deformed.

2. The wearable device of claim 1,

wherein the opening is of a roughly square shape of being opened in up orientation and having a given thickness, and

wherein the body is attached and detached with directivity from the opening by the elastic deformation of the safe mounting part.

3. The wearable device of claim 2,

wherein the body comprises:

a front case formed of transparent or semitransparent injection materials and performing a waveguide function, or arranging a display;

a rear case; and

a connection case,

wherein the connection case is configured to have a horizontal width and/or vertical width each being the largest in a middle region and gradually getting smaller as it goes up and down from the middle region, and

wherein an inner surface of the safe mounting part is configured to have a shape of coming in contact with the connection case and the rear case.

4. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the safe mounting part is opened to expose a portion of the body, the portion of the body comprising a side key.

5. The wearable device of claim 1, further comprising a carved seal formed in an internal bottom of the safe mounting part such that a user recognizes the coupling orientation of the body.

6. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein at least one protrusion is formed on an inner wall of the safe mounting part, and

wherein the body has an interface part connector, and the protrusion is coupled to the interface part connector.

7. A wearable device comprising:

a clip type wearing part comprising at least two first and second openings; and

a body configured to fit to and to separate from the clip type wearing part,

wherein the clip type wearing part comprises a safe mounting part which is formed to have a shape of covering a circumference and bottom of the first opening, and to which the body is fitted, and

wherein at least a portion of the second opening is opened in the safe mounting part.

8. The wearable device of claim 7,

wherein the first opening is opened in up orientation, and

wherein the second opening is opened in down orientation in the bottom of the safe mounting part.

9. The wearable device of claim 8, wherein the second opening inserts at least a portion of the wearing part.

10. The wearable device of claim 8, wherein the second opening is configured to have a box shape, and an anti-sliding member is coupled to the second opening.

11. The wearable device of claim 7,

wherein the clip type wearing part comprises a clip part allowing the wearable device to be worn on clothes,

wherein the clip part comprises:

a first material part; and

a second material part different from the first material part,

wherein the first material part comprises hard materials including metals, and

wherein the second material part comprises soft materials and is formed to cover the first material part.

12. The wearable device of claim 11, further comprising an end region of the clip part,

wherein the end region comprises a protrusion rib which is closely adhered to the second opening, and at least a portion of which is inserted to the second opening, and

wherein an end of the protrusion rib is formed to have a structure in which at least a portion of the end of the protrusion rib is overlapped with a bottom portion of the wearing part.

13. The wearable device of claim 7, wherein the body comprises:

a front case of which at least a portion performs a display function;

a battery case;

a connection case coupled with the front case and the battery case; and

a main Printed Circuit Board (PCB) mounted by a coupling structure of the front case and the connection case,

wherein the PCB comprises components and Surface-Mount Device (SMD) components having elasticity on an upper surface of the PCB,

wherein the PCB comprises an interface part connector and at least one battery on a lower surface of the PCB, and

wherein at least one side key is mounted in the connection case.

14. The wearable device of claim 13,

wherein the component having the elasticity comprises components having sealing members, or

wherein the component having the elasticity comprises a plurality of mounted Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), the LEDs being arranged to face at least a portion of the front case and being light wave guided.

15. A wearable device having at least one key, the wearable device comprising:

a front case;

a rear case; and

a connection case,

wherein boundary portions among the cases are coupled to one another by ultrasonic fusion.

16. The wearable device of claim 15,

wherein the front case has at least one vertical wall for preventing separation of the key, and

wherein the vertical walls are formed to extend to the rear case, and perform as ultrasonic fusion ribs at the time of ultrasonic fusion with the rear case and the connection case.

17. The wearable device of claim 16, wherein a recess of a certain depth is provided between the vertical walls, and restricts sliding of the key.

18. The wearable device of claim 17, wherein the key further comprises:

a first rib formed on a rear surface to protrude inwards, and arranged between the vertical walls; and

a second rib which is formed at an upper end of the first rib and at least a portion of which is inserted into the recess and is movable in the recess.

19. The wearable device of claim 15, wherein the front case has an inner surface on which a buzzer is mounted, the buzzer being electrically connected to a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) horizontally arranged in the connection case by an elastic contact terminal.

20. The wearable device of claim 19, wherein, to adjust the adhesiveness of the buzzer comprises one of:

a position guide rib formed around the buzzer,

a buzzer attachment surface configured concavely at the buzzer'"'"'s inner side, or

the buzzer attachment surface is configured to have at least one dimple at the buzzer'"'"'s inner side, to control an expansion region of a discharge amount of a bonding.