Portable electronic device

• US 9,259,182 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Cohen, Lee S
• Application Number:
  US14/518,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20150119676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 600/388
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 configured to attach to a garment, the device comprising:

a device body configured to reside on one of a front side and a reverse side of the garment and housing an electronic component;

a fixing member separate from the device body and configured to reside on an opposite side from the front side and the reverse side of the garment, and configured to fix 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 opposite side of the front side and the reverse side of the garment; and

a pair of band-shaped electrode portions each having a first part extending into recessed regions of the device body and connected to the device body and having a second part extending away from the device body and configured to contact a biological surface; and

a biological information detecting unit in the device body and configured to detect biological information based on a potential difference generated in the pair of electrode portions.

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 comprises an elastically deformable material, and including a locking portion configured to lock to the locked portion.

4. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the fixing member comprises a ring shape surrounding the device body.

5. The portable electronic device according to claim 4, wherein a gap is defined at least in one side of the device body in a radial direction of the fixing member by 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 configured to cover at least part of the device body through the garment from the opposite side of the front side and the reverse side of the garment.