Wearable measuring device that can be worn on a person's body
Inventors
De Vos, Renaat • Bogaerts, Stijn
Assignees
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Publication Number
US-12029540-B2
Publication Date
2024-07-09
Expiration Date
Abstract
A wearable measuring device that can be worn on a person's body, that is intended for measuring parameters on the skin of the person and that is designed as a measuring block equipped with an elongated, shell-shaped housing with a convex side and a concave side and in which the surface of the concave side and wherein the surface of the concave side is equipped with at least a pair of electronic sensors meant to be put into contact with the skin of the person concerned for measuring the parameters.
Core Innovation
A wearable measuring device configured to be worn on a person's body measures parameters on the person's skin by a measuring block. The measuring block has an elongated curved housing with a convex side and a concave side, and a surface of the concave side is equipped with at least two electronic sensors configured to be put in contact with the person's skin on an inside of a wrist.
The wearable measuring device does not have a wristband. Instead, the measuring block is located between the wristband and the person's skin on the inside of the wrist by a fixing member having at least one of hooks or clips. The device positions the measuring block between the wristband and the person's skin while maintaining skin contact via the sensors.
The at least two electronic sensors are provided at a mutual distance of at least 20 millimeters from each other, and the at least two electronic sensors have a rounded contact surface.
Claims Coverage
The independent claim is clm-00001. It includes six main inventive features: an elongated curved housing with convex and concave sides, at least two electronic sensors on the concave side configured for skin contact on the inside of the wrist, absence of a wristband, a fixing member using hooks or clips to locate the measuring block between the wristband and the skin, sensor mutual distance of at least 20 millimeters, and rounded contact surfaces for the sensors.
Elongated curved housing with convex and concave sides
A measuring block having an elongated curved housing with a convex side and a concave side.
Concave-side electronic sensors for inside-of-wrist skin contact
A surface of the concave side is equipped with at least two electronic sensors configured to be put in contact with the person's skin on an inside of a wrist of the person's body so as to measure the parameters.
No wristband configuration
The wearable measuring device does not have a wristband.
Fixing member with hooks or clips locating the measuring block between the wristband and skin
The measuring block is provided with a fixing member having at least one of hooks or clips, the hooks or clips configured to be hooked behind or around a part of the wristband to locate the measuring block between the wristband and the person's skin on the inside of the wrist of the person's body.
Sensor mutual distance of at least 20 millimeters
The at least two electronic sensors are provided at a mutual distance of at least 20 millimeters from each other.
Rounded sensor contact surfaces
The at least two electronic sensors have a rounded contact surface.
Independent claim clm-00001 defines a wrist-worn wearable measuring device using an elongated curved measuring block with a concave-side skin contact arrangement. It removes the need for a wristband by using hooks or clips as a fixing member, and it further constrains the sensor arrangement with a mutual distance of at least 20 millimeters and rounded contact surfaces.
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