Electronic wrist device

• US 7,144,151 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2004
• Issued: 12/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
• Original Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
• Inventors: Mattinen, Tero, Saaski, Jarmo
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuneo, Kammie
• Assistant Examiner(s): GOODWIN, JEANNE M
• Application Number:
  US10/809,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20050111307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 985 Days
• Field of Search: 368/281, 368/283, 368294-296, 368/300
• US Class Current: 368/283
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/28 Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time inscriptions or pictures moved by hand G04B45/003
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 37/085 without special hermetic sealing pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 39/025 without special sealing parts
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/02 Component assemblies

Abstract

The invention relates to a wrist device, particularly to a fastening mechanism of a cover part and a plastic body part of the wrist device. The fastening mechanism comprises a fastening structure, which in turn comprises a projecting grip structure extending at least partly into the body part, setting against a positioning surface of the body part, and blocked in relation to the mounting direction of the cover part to prevent the fastening structure from moving in a direction opposite to the mounting direction once the fastening structure has been pressed into the body part.

Claims

1. An electronic wrist device, comprising:

a plastic body part with an aperture into an equipment compartment; and

a cover part joined to the body part adapted to at least partly close the aperture,

wherein the body part further comprises a positioning surface for positioning the cover part in relation to the body part,

wherein the wrist device comprises a fastening structure, which is at least partly pressed into the body part and which at least partly sets against the positioning surface, for joining the cover part to the body part, the fastening structure comprising cover press means for pressing the cover part into contact with the body part, and

wherein the fastening structure further comprises a projecting grip structure extending at least partly into the body part, setting against the positioning surface, and blocked in relation to the mounting direction of the cover part for preventing the fastening structure from moving in a direction opposite to the mounting direction once the fastening structure has been pressed within the body part in the mounting direction.

2. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the forward movement of the projecting grip structure is enabled in the mounting direction of the cover part.

3. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the positioning surface is parallel with the mounting direction of the cover part.

4. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the body part comprises an inner circumference defining at least partly the border of the aperture and forming at least part of the positioning surface;

and

wherein the fastening structure comprises an outer circumference setting at least partly against the inner circumference of the body part.

5. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the body part comprises an outer circumference inside the body part, which outer circumference forms at least part of the positioning surface;

and

wherein the fastening structure comprises an inner circumference setting at least partly against the outer circumference inside the body part.

6. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the projecting grip structure comprises a blade part extending in a direction opposite to the mounting direction and pointing at least partly towards the body part, the blade part extending at least partly into the body part against the positioning surface, thereby reducing a force component deforming the body part once the fastening structure has been pressed into the body part.

7. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the projecting grip structure is a wedge-shaped structure with a tip that is parallel with the mounting direction and a base that is opposite to the mounting direction.

8. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the material of the projecting grip structure is harder than the material of the body part.

9. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the material of the cover part is glass.

10. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the fastening structure, when seen in the mounting direction, is a cylindrical structure pressed at least partly into the body part, at least part of the cover part being supported against its inner circumference by the cover press means, and the projecting grip structures being arranged on the surface of its cylindrical structure.

11. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the body part comprises fittings for the projecting grip structure.

12. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the wrist device further comprises sealing means between the cover part and the body part, the press force of the sealing means being parallel with the mounting direction.

13. A wrist device according to claim 1, wherein the material of the fastening structure is stainless steel.

14. An electronic wrist device, comprising:

a plastic body part with an aperture into an equipment compartment; and

a cover part joined to the body part adapted to at least partly close the aperture,

wherein the body part further comprises a positioning surface adapted to position the cover part in relation to the body part,

wherein the wrist device comprises a fastening structure, which is at least partly pressed into the body part and which at least partly sets against the positioning surface, for joining the cover part to the body part, the fastening structure comprising cover press means for pressing the cover part into contact with the body part, and

wherein the fastening structure further comprises a projecting grip structure extending at least partly into the body part, setting against the positioning surface, and blocked in relation to the mounting direction of the cover part to prevent the fastening structure from moving in a direction opposite to the mounting direction once the fastening structure has been pressed without rotation within the body part.