IP Library Granted Patent US 11,751,789
Granted Patent B2
US 11,751,789 · App. 17/816,328 · Granted Sep 12, 2023

Wearable device with conductive traces and insulator

Inventors: Jeffrey Joseph Abercrombie, II (Oakland, CA); Genaro Sebastian Sepulveda (Oakland, CA); Shena Hae Park (San Francisco, CA); Ryan James Wensley (San Francisco, CA); James Kihyun Lee (San Francisco, CA); Thomas Burnell Reeve, III (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: iRhythm Technologies, Inc.
A61B5/257A61B5/282A61B5/6833H05K1/147H05K5/0026H05K5/0086H05K5/0217H05K7/1427A61B5/325A61B5/6843A61B2090/0807A61B2562/0215A61B2562/0217A61B2562/166A61B2562/227
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Patent No.
US 11,751,789
App. No.
17/816,328
Granted
Sep 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a wearable device that includes a housing, battery terminal connector, conductive traces, and an insulator for recording signals. The device may include a housing enclosing a circuit board and a battery. The device may include two conductive traces electrically connected to terminals of the battery and an insulator separating the conductive traces. The battery terminal connector can present both the conductive traces to the outer surface for coupling to a circuit board. The device can assess the physiological signals to infer a likelihood of arrhythmia of a user.

Claims (18)

1. A wearable device for monitoring physiological signals in a user, the wearable device comprising:

at least one battery, the battery comprising a first terminal on a first side of the battery and a second terminal on a second side of the battery;

a sensor configured to detect physiological signals; and

a battery terminal connector comprising:

a first conductive trace disposed on a first surface of a first portion of the battery terminal connector and on a second surface of a second portion of the battery terminal connector; and

a second conductive trace disposed on a first surface of the second portion and on the second surface of the second portion, wherein the wearable device further comprises an insulator positioned on the first and second surfaces of the second portion.

2. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the wearable device further comprises a housing enclosing a hardware processor and the at least one battery.

3. The wearable device of claim 2 , wherein the wearable device further comprises an adhesive flexible wing extending from the housing.

4. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the first conductive trace is configured to electrically connect to the first terminal of the at least one battery.

5. The wearable device of claim 4 , wherein the second conductive trace is configured to electrically connect to the second terminal of the at least one battery.

6. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the insulator is separating the first conductive trace from the second terminal of the at least one battery and separating the first conductive trace from the second conductive trace.

7. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the battery terminal connector is configured to present both the first and second conductive traces on the second surface of the second portion for electric coupling to a hardware processor.

8. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the first surface being configured to face toward the at least one battery, and the second surface extending over the first portion, the second portion, and a connecting portion of the battery terminal connector, the second surface being configured to face away from the at least one battery.

9. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion is a bottom portion and the second portion is a top portion of the battery terminal connector.

10. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the first side is a bottom side and the second side is a top side of the at least one battery.

11. The wearable device of claim 1 , wherein the second conductive trace is disposed on an inner surface and an outer surface of the insulator and wherein inner and outer portions of the second conductive trace are electrically connected by one or more vias extending through the insulator and filled with conductive material.

12. The wearable device of claim 11 , wherein the conductive material of the one or more vias is different than the material for the insulator and the first and second conductive traces.

13. The wearable device of claim 11 , wherein the conductive material of the one or more vias is the same as the material for the first and second conductive traces.

Assignments (2)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 7, 2024
From: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 066767/0250 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 3, 2024
From: IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 066189/0322 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17671403 · Feb 14, 2022
Continuation 17396463 · Aug 6, 2021
Provisional Application 63062314 · Aug 6, 2020
Related Publication 20220361793A1 · Nov 17, 2022
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