Wrist AM radio receiver

• US 4,419,770 A
• Filed: 04/26/1982
• Issued: 12/06/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Baba, Takashi, Yagi, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bookbinder, Marc E.
• Application Number:
  US06/372,189
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 455/344, 455/347, 455/348, 455/349, 455/350, 455/351, 455/89, 455/90, 455/300, 455/301, 455/310, 455/317, 368/10
• US Class Current: 455/301
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 47/025 in musical instruments or loudspeakers sounding bodies with chimes G04B21/08; in alarm clocks G04B23/028; cases with arrangements for enhancing the sound production G04B37/0075
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: G04R 60/04 Antennas attached to or integrated in watch bracelets
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/273 Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/088 with parts of the receiver detachable or collapsible

Abstract

A wrist AM radio receiver is housed in a bracelet-like structure adapted to be removably wrapped about a user'"'"'s wrist and includes at least a bar antenna, a circuit board with an oscillating element thereon forming a reference oscillation source, and a speaker, and the bar antenna and the circuit board are spaced apart within the bracelet-like structure in the direction in which the latter is wrapped with the speaker also disposed in the bracelet-like structure between the bar antenna and the circuit board so as to minimize the influence on the bar antenna of pulses from the reference oscillation source.

Claims

1. A wrist AM radio receiver comprising a bracelet-like structure adapted to be removably wrapped about a user'"'"'s wrist, a bar antenna, a circuit board having thereon oscillating means forming a reference oscillation source, said bar antenna and said circuit board having oscillating means thereon being spaced apart within said bracelet-like structure in the direction in which the latter is wrapped, and at least a speaker also disposed in said bracelet-like structure between said bar antenna and said circuit board with oscillating means thereon so as to minimize the influence on said bar antenna of pulses from said reference oscillation source.

2. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 1;

in which said bracelet-like structure defines a plurality of compartments arranged in succession in said structure in said direction in which the latter is wrapped, said bar antenna and said circuit board having oscillating means thereon are respectively contained in first and second ones of said compartments which are spaced from each other in said direction by at least another of said compartments, and said speaker is contained in said other compartment.

3. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 2;

in which said bracelet-like structure includes a main casing in which are disposed said first and second compartments and at least said other compartment therebetween, said main casing has holes therein for communicating said first, second and other compartments each with the other, and lead wires extend through said holes for operatively connecting at least said bar antenna, said circuit board and said speaker.

4. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 3, in which said main casing includes a base member having a curved under surface shaped to conform to the user'"'"'s wrist contours, and a cover removably secured on said base member to cooperate with the latter in defining said compartments therebetween.

5. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 3;

in which said main casing defines an additional compartment at the side of said second compartment directed away from said other compartment; and

further comprising battery means in said additional compartment.

6. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 5;

in said main casing includes a base member having an under surface curved to fit the contours of the user'"'"'s wrist, a first cover removably secured on said base member to cooperate with the latter in defining said first, second and other compartments therebetween, and a second cover pivoted on said base member to move between an opened position and a closed position where said second cover cooperates with a respective portion of said base member to define said additional compartment for said battery means.

7. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 3;

in which said bracelet-like structure further includes strap elements extending from opposite ends of said main casing for completing the girdling of the user'"'"'s wrist.

8. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 2;

in which said bracelet-like structure includes a plurality of relatively rigid elements, at least some of which are hollow to separately define said first, second and other compartments, respectively, therein, and pivot means connecting said elements in succession to permit said bracelet-like structure to substantially conform to the contours of the user'"'"'s wrist.

9. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 8;

in which the successive elements have passages extending logitudinally through their adjacent ends from the compartments respectively defined in said elements, each said pivot means includes a flattened sleeve having end portions loosely engaging in said passages through the adjacent ends of said elements connected thereby and means pivotally connecting said end portions of the flattened sleeve to said elements inwardly of the open ends of said passages so that the angular displacement of successive pivotally connected elements is limited by engagement of the respective sleeve with edges of said passages at said open ends thereof; and

further comprising conductive means extending through each said flattened sleeve for effecting electrical connections therethrough.

10. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 9;

in which said conductive means is constituted by a printed circuit on a flexible substrate.

11. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 1;

in which said reference oscillation source is included in a phase-locked loop circuit for synthesizing a selected local oscillation in the receiver.

12. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 1;

further comprising an electronic watch housed in said bracelet-like structure and employing said reference oscillation source for generating clock pulses.

13. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 12;

further comprising display means selectively operative to display a received frequency for which the radio receiver is tuned and a time indicated by said electronic watch, said display means being disposed in addition to said speaker between said bar antenna and said oscillating means on said circuit board.

14. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 1;

in which said bracelet-like structure has an outwardly facing surface defining an operating panel which is formed with a notched corner defining a face at right angles to said direction in which the bracelet-like structure is wrapped about the user'"'"'s wrist, and further comprising a power switch operable by a push-button extending through said face so as to be shielded in said notched corner against inadvertent operation.

15. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 1;

in which said bracelet-like structure has an outwardly facing surface defining an operating panel, a generally V-shaped groove is formed along a margin of said panel, and operating push-buttons extend through a side of said groove into the latter.

16. A wrist AM radio receiver according to claim 1;

in which said bracelet-like structure includes a plurality of relatively rigid elements pivotally connected in succession to permit said bracelet-like structure to substantially conform to the user'"'"'s wrist when wrapped about the latter, at least a plurality of said elements are hollow to define respective compartments therein, said bar antenna and said circuit board having oscillating means thereon are disposed in said compartments of different elements, respectively, of said bracelet-like structure and said speaker is disposed in one of said compartments between said bar antenna and said circuit board; and

further comprising batteries for powering the radio receiver disposed in another of said compartments which is substantially opposed to the compartment containing said speaker when said bracelet-like structure is wrapped. about the user'"'"'s wrist.