IP Library Granted Patent US 9,259,182
Granted Patent B2
US 9,259,182 · App. 14/518,510 · Granted Feb 16, 2016

Portable electronic device

Inventors: Hideki Okuda (Chiba, JP); Dai Terasawa (Chiba, JP); Teruo Kato (Chiba, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
A61B5/6804A41D1/002A41D13/1281A61B5/0006A61B5/0245A61B5/02438A61B5/0408A61B5/04085
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Patent No.
US 9,259,182
App. No.
14/518,510
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Kind
B2
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 30 A 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 30 A and the device bogy 20 from the other side of the garment W. The fixing member 30 A 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 30 A between an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member 30 A and the device body 20.

Claims (10)

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.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 17, 2024
From: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
To: SEIKO WATCH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 069183/0051 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2014
From: OKUDA, HIDEKI; TERASAWA, DAI; KATO, TERUO
To: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
Reel/Frame 033990/0561 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-222410 · Oct 25, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150119676A1 · Apr 30, 2015