Information system

• US 4,586,827 A
• Filed: 10/16/1984
• Issued: 05/06/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Heinrich Pichler, Hermann Hirsch
• Original Assignee: Heinrich Pichler, Hermann Hirsch
• Inventors: Hirsch, Hermann, Pichler, Heinrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Roskoski, Bernard
• Application Number:
  US06/663,043
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 368/88, 368/155, 368/156, 368/276-278, 368/281, 368/282, 368/291, 368/313, 368/10, 455/344, 455/351
• US Class Current: 368/282
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/06 Electric connectors, e.g. conductive elastomers
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/083 Watches distributed over several housings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/675 with contacts having at least a slotted plate for penetration of cable insulation, e.g. insulation displacement contacts for round conductor flat cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2416 the contact members having insulation-cutting edges, e.g. of tuning fork type

Abstract

An information system is disclosed built up of at least two modules (14, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67), which modules can be joined with each other by way of a band (16) attachable to a user wherein at least two mutually insulated electric connecting wires (18) are embedded. In at least one of the modules (14, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67) a bushing (28) for the band (16) is provided, associated with a plurality of connecting pins electrically connected to the module, these pins being insertable in the insulating material (20) of the band (16) for electrical contacting.

Claims

1. In an information system with several modules which are attached to a wrist strap, wherein mutually insulated electric connecting wires are embedded, and each module has feed-through means for accommodation of a wrist strap, a device operable by the user being provided in these feed-through means and being equipped with a plurality of connecting pins electrically connected to inputs and outputs of the module, connecting pins of this device being pluggable, for establishing electrical contact with the connecting wires, into insulating material of the wrist strap;

the improvement in which at least one of the connecting wires (18) extends lengthwise of the strap and serves as an antenna, one of the modules (60) is a sensor which collects and processes data, and one of the modules (67) is a telemetering unit electrically connected to both the sensor and the connecting wire serving as the antenna, for transmitting electrically and in a wireless fashion information received from said sensor through said antenna to a remote station.