1346 results about "Wearable Electronic Device" patented technology

A wearable electronic device includes an electrode array for transdermal stimulation of a sensory nerve that itself innervates a body part distal to a worn location of the wearable electronic device. The transdermal stimulation is configured to induce an electrical current or voltage that evokes a sensory impression at an area innervated by the sensory nerve, not at the stimulated sensory nerve itself. In one implementation, the wearable electronic device takes a finger ring form factor worn on a proximal phalanx of an index finger. In this configuration, the wearable electronic device can stimulate a portion of a branch of the median nerve extending through the index finger. Upon stimulation of the median nerve, a user wearing the finger ring may perceive pressure applied to the user's fingertip.

Various embodiments of an ear-wearable electronic device are disclosed. The device includes a housing having a top shell and a bottom shell, a microphone disposed within the housing, and an acoustic path disposed at least partially within the housing and extending between an acoustic port disposed at an outer surface of the housing and an outlet disposed within the housing that acoustically couples the acoustic path to an inlet of the microphone. The device further includes an acoustic filter disposed at least partially within an inner surface of the top shell and includes a neck and a resonance cavity acoustically coupled to the neck. The acoustic filter is acoustically coupled to the acoustic path via the neck. Further, the acoustic filter is configured to reduce an intensity of acoustic waves sensed by the microphone in a first frequency range.

A wearing member and a wearable electronic device comprising same are provided. The wearing member includes a strap, a cover assembly coupled to one end of the strap, and a link assembly for fixing the cover assembly to a housing of the wearable electronic device, wherein the link assembly includes a main body containing an internal space a first magnetic member disposed in the internal space, a button member configured to slide in a first direction toward the main body or a second direction away from the main body, and including a first recess, a second magnetic member disposed in the first recess, and facing the first magnetic member, and a fixing member disposed in the internal space, wherein at least a portion of the fixing member is detachably coupled to the housing of the wearable electronic device based on a sliding movement of the button member.

A wearable electronic device according to an embodiment may comprise: a housing and a wearable member. The housing may include a seating area recessed in at least a part of the side surface of the housing. The wearable member may be separably connected to the seating area. The seating area may include at least one first connecting portion on both sidewalls in one axial direction. The wearable member may comprise: a link assembly coupled to the seating area to be releasable therefrom; and a strap. The link assembly may include a pair of first sidewalls, each facing one of the two sidewalls of the housing. The link assembly may include at least one second connecting portion arranged on at least a part of the first sidewalls and engaged with the first 10 connecting portion. The strap may include: a first portion encompassing at least a part of the link assembly; and / or a second portion extending from the first portion. At least a part of the first portion may be arranged between the seating area and the link assembly.

A portable or wearable electronic device can include a device housing defining an internal volume, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume. The electronic component can be an input component and can have a component housing. The electronic device can also include an antenna feed assembly disposed in the internal volume. The antenna feed assembly can include a conductive grounding component electrically connected to the component housing and the device housing, and an antenna feed component electrically connected to the grounding component and disposed adjacent to the component housing. The conductive grounding component can surround a first major surface and a second major surface of the component housing.

A wearable electronic device can include a sidewall housing defining an internal volume and a band slot configured to receive a securement band. The sidewall housing can include a radio-frequency (RF)-transparent window defining the band slot, a rear cover coupled to the sidewall housing with the rear cover including metal, an antenna resonator disposed in the internal volume adjacent the RF-transparent window, and a conductor electrically coupling the rear cover to the antenna resonator.

A wearable electronic device, a system and methods of monitoring with a wearable electronic device. The device includes a hybrid wireless communication module with wireless communication sub-modules to selectively acquire location data from both indoor and outdoor sources, as well as a wireless communication sub-module to selectively transmit an LPWAN signal to provide location information based on the acquired data. The device may also include one or more sensors to collect one or more of environmental data, activity data and physiological data. The device may transmit some or all of its acquired data to a larger system, including a cloud-based server to, in addition to providing location-based data, be used as a part of a predictive health care protocol to correlate changes in acquired data to salient indicators of the health of a wearer of the device. In one form, the predictive health care protocol uses a machine learning model.

The invention relates to the field of super-hydrophobic materials, in particular to a basalt fiber composite material as well as a preparation method and application thereof. According to the composite fabric material provided by the invention, a multistage micro-nano rough surface of the MoS2 nanoflowers and the silver nanoparticles is constructed on the fiber substrate, so that not only is super-hydrophobic self-cleaning realized, but also the anti-icing performance is relatively high, and particularly, rapid heating is realized by combining broadband absorption of the MoS2 nanoflowers and a local surface plasma resonance effect of the silver nanoparticles; and meanwhile, the silver nanoparticles accelerate heat conduction, so that excellent ice melting capability is obtained. The high conductivity of the silver nanoparticles constructs a conductive path, and the layered structure of MoS2 triggers interface polarization, so that the electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of the X wave band is improved. The dual antibacterial mechanism of the MoS2 nanoflowers and the silver nanoparticles also realizes broad-spectrum efficient antibiosis, the preparation method is green and environment-friendly, the cost is low, and the requirements of complex scenes such as wearable electronic equipment, medical protection, polar region protection and national defense can be met.

The invention discloses a preparation method and application of a novel ionized water gel-based moisture power generation material. The material is composed of a carbon coating fabric, ionized water gel and a patch metal electrode. Wherein the nano carbon black is used as a conductive filler of the hydrogel and can enhance electric energy output by promoting functional group dissociation and ion migration. The high-hygroscopicity sea salt in the hydrogel can enhance the capture and transmission capability of the material on water molecules in the atmosphere, and ensures the continuous power output capability of the moisture power generation material. Due to the design of the zigzag dry-wet interface, the wettability between the hydrogel and the carbon black coating can be improved, the moisture absorption rate is increased, the contact area is increased, and therefore the power generation power is improved. The metal patch electrode can ensure the stability of long-term power generation of the material, and can be customized to reduce the contact resistance. A moisture power generation device prepared from the material can be used as a passive energy supply device and is suitable for the fields of self-powered sensors, wearable electronic equipment and the like.

A wearable electronic device according to an embodiment may include: a first member including at least one display and at least one first gear part; and a second member including at least one second gear part at least partially coupled to the at least one first gear part and at least one prescription lens disposed between the at least one display and a body of a user, wherein the second member is disposed such that a distance between the at least one display and the at least one prescription lens is adjustable according to a position at which the at least one second gear part is coupled to the at least one first gear part. Various embodiments recognized through the specification are also possible.

The present disclosure generally relates to user interface for electronic devices, including wearable electronic devices, and device settings based on user identification.

A support band for a wearable electronic device includes a first band portion, a second band portion, and an adjustment assembly. A cable is connected to the second band portion extends through a first passage and a second passage of a cable lock that is connected to the first band portion. The locking features allow movement of the cable in a tightening direction and restrain movement of the cable in a loosening direction. A cable pull engages a first portion of the cable between the first passage and the second passage. The cable pull moves away from the cable lock during an extension stroke, and the cable pull moves toward the cable lock during a return stroke.

A wearable electronic device may include a display and a housing. The housing may include a chassis defining a first portion of a rear exterior surface of the wearable electronic device, a first portion of a side exterior surface of the wearable electronic device, and an internal wall. The housing may also include a glass shell defining a front wall positioned over the display and defining a front exterior surface of the wearable electronic device and a side wall extending from the front wall and overlapping the internal wall, the side wall defining a second portion of the side exterior surface of the wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device may also include a touch sensing system within the housing and configured to detect a touch input applied to the front exterior surface of the wearable electronic device.

The invention provides a wear-resistant, transparent, flexible and fluoride-free super-hydrophobic composite coating and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane, gamma-aminopropyltriethoxysilane and dibutyltin dilaurate for reaction to obtain a modified precursor solution, adding swelled epoxy resin into the modified precursor solution, and heating for reaction to obtain siloxane modified epoxy resin; the preparation method comprises the following steps: dispersing nano silicon dioxide in an ethyl acetate solution to form a SiO2 suspension; and uniformly mixing the modified epoxy resin with a SiO2 suspension, adding polyether amine as a curing agent, stirring and mixing, and constructing the epoxy resin / hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane / nano-silica super-hydrophobic coating on a substrate by adopting an air spraying mode. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the super-hydrophobic coating with excellent transparency and flexibility and good adhesive force and wear resistance can be prepared, and the super-hydrophobic coating has a wide application prospect in the fields of wearable electronic equipment, photoelectric devices and the like.

A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing including a first surface, and a second surface positioned to be opposite to the first surface and configured to come into contact with a part of a body when the wearable electronic device is worn, a temperature sensor disposed in an internal space of the housing and configured to measure a temperature of an object adjacent to the first surface, an inertial sensor disposed in the internal space, memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively connected to the temperature sensor, the inertial sensor, and the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wearable electronic device to detect a motion of the wearable electronic device by using the inertial sensor, when a first condition corresponding to the detected motion is satisfied, activate the temperature sensor, identify the object on a basis of the detected motion, and measure the temperature of the identified object by using the activated temperature sensor.

The disclosed system for interacting with objects in an extended reality (XR) environment generated by an XR system may include (1) neuromuscular sensors configured to sense neuromuscular signals from a wrist of a user and (2) at least one computer processor programmed to (a) determine, based at least in part on the sensed neuromuscular signals, information relating to an interaction of the user with an object in the XR environment and (b) instruct the XR system to, based on the determined information relating to the interaction of the user with the object, augment the interaction of the user with the object in the XR environment. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.

According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a first battery, charging circuitry, communication circuitry, a display, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to, based on identifying that a wearable electronic device being mounted in the electronic device, wirelessly transmit power to the wearable electronic device using the charging circuitry; display, on the display, at least one of first state information of the first battery and second state information of a second battery included in the wearable electronic device while wirelessly transmitting the power; display at least one object corresponding to at least one function related to the wearable electronic device on the display; and based on identifying an input to a first object among the at least one object, transmit a control signal for causing the wearable electronic device to execute a first function corresponding to the first object to the wearable electronic device through the communication circuitry.

Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device may include a housing forming a first space configured to seat an external electronic device and a second space, a battery storing power, a support part disposed within the first space and configured to support the external electronic device when the external electronic device is seated in the electronic device, a first antenna and a second antenna disposed in the support part, a third antenna disposed in the second space and configured to receive a first magnetic field from the outside of the housing and to supply power to the battery. The battery may be disposed in the second space. The battery may radiate a second magnetic field to at least some area of the first space by supplying power to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna.

Various embodiments of an ear-wearable electronic device are disclosed. The device includes a faceplate having an outer surface and an inner surface, where the faceplate defines a cavity disposed in the inner surface of the faceplate; a microphone disposed at least partially within the cavity and including an inlet; and an acoustic path disposed within the faceplate and extending between a microphone port disposed at the outer surface of the faceplate and an outlet disposed in the cavity. The acoustic path is acoustically coupled to the inlet of the microphone via the outlet. The inlet of the microphone is disposed in the cavity or in the outlet of the acoustic path. The acoustic path is configured such that all acoustic waves propagating within the acoustic path pass directly from the acoustic path to the inlet of the microphone.

The present invention discloses a method for preparing a flexible polyaniline / biomass carbon electromagnetic shielding material. After high-temperature carbonization of a fiber fabric, a structurally ordered biomass carbon matrix is ​​obtained. Under the synergistic action of an oxidant and a dopant, aniline monomer is in situ oxidatively polymerized to generate polyaniline that is adsorbed on the surface of the biomass carbon matrix, thereby obtaining the polyaniline / biomass carbon electromagnetic shielding material. The electromagnetic shielding material of the present invention has an intricate and ordered two-dimensional network structure, which helps to establish a conductive network and exhibits excellent electromagnetic shielding effectiveness. In addition, the unique flexibility can fully meet the special requirements of flexible wearable electronic devices, electromagnetic shielding clothing fillers, etc. for the performance of electromagnetic shielding materials. The synthesis process of this method is safe and environmentally friendly, and the required consumables are cheap and abundant, making it suitable for commercialization and industrialization requirements.

Various embodiments of an earbud and an ear-wearable electronic device that includes such earbud are disclosed. The earbud includes an elongated body having a first end, a second end, a cavity extending along a body axis between the first end and the second end of the elongated body, and a body acoustic port disposed in the first end of the body and acoustically coupled to the cavity of the body. A portion of the cavity adjacent the body acoustic port includes a cross-sectional area in a plane orthogonal to the body axis that increases in a direction from the second end of the body to the first end of the body. The earbud further includes a flange connected to the elongated body and a wax bridge disposed on an outer surface of the flange along the body axis and over the body acoustic port.

An example head-wearable electronic device may, while displaying images of physical environment, identify that first eye gaze information corresponds to a visual object in the images, which corresponds to an external electronic device in the physical environment. The head-wearable electronic device may display, based on identifying that the first eye gaze information corresponds to the visual object, a user interface (UI) object associated with the visual object and transmit to the external electronic device, a signal to request a communication link with the external electronic device. The head-wearable electronic device may display, based on information received through communication circuitry, screen images associated with the external electronic device, superimposed on images of physical environment.

Disclosed is a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device includes: a display module comprising a display; a housing to which the display module is coupled; and a projection display disposed on a side portion of the housing and configured to display information on a display area adjacent to the housing, the projection display may include: a substrate disposed along a mounting surface provided on a side portion of the housing; a plurality of light-emitting devices comprising light-emitting circuitry disposed on the substrate in a grating arrangement; and a plurality of micro-lenses covering a light-emitting surface of the plurality of light-emitting devices.

Wearable head-mounted displays, such as virtual reality systems, present immersive experiences and environments to a wearer. However, the head-mounted displays, as well as the immersive environments that they produce, limit the wearer's ability to interact with outside observers. For example, a wearer may not be able to see outside observers, and outside observers may not have any insight to what the wearer is experiencing or where the wearer's attention is directed. Accordingly, a wearable electronic device may include an outward-facing display configured to display information to outside observers, such as images of the wearer's face or images that represent or indicate the state of the wearer and / or the head mounted display.

The invention discloses a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer flexible composite solid electrolyte as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The flexible composite solid electrolyte is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 1wt%-30wt% of solute salt; 5 wt%-50 wt% of an inorganic filler; 40 wt% to 90 wt% of a polymer matrix; the invention also specifically discloses a preparation method of the flexible composite solid electrolyte and an application of the flexible composite solid electrolyte in a lithium metal battery. The prepared composite solid electrolyte has excellent mechanical properties, a symmetrical lithium battery assembled based on the composite solid electrolyte can realize stable circulation, and the prepared composite solid electrolyte has relatively high flexibility and relatively high ionic conductivity at the same time, so that the composite solid electrolyte is expected to be applied to wearable electronic equipment.

The invention discloses a biaxial flexible strain sensor based on laser induced graphene. Comprising a flexible substrate, a flexible sensitive layer, a flexible spacing layer and a flexible upper cover, both the flexible substrate and the flexible upper cover are made of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) material, the flexible sensitive layer is generated on a mixed substrate of polyimide (PI) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) through a laser ablation process, and then the sensitive layer is transferred to the PDMS substrate through a substrate transfer process. The flexible sensitive layer adopts an I-shaped structure, and two ends of the flexible sensitive layer are coated with electrode layer external wires. The method can be applied to the fields of wearable electronic equipment and medical monitoring. By means of the I-shaped structure, the sensitive layers in different directions can detect the strain in the main direction, and meanwhile interference caused by the strain in different directions is avoided. The preparation method is simple and efficient, a special gas environment is not needed, patterning preparation of graphene can be completed only through one step, and the production cost is reduced.

A wearable electronic device (1), having a first radiation source (10) configured to emit a radiation beam (11) to a surface of skin of a user, the radiation beam having a peak emission wavelength between 610-1400nm; a driver circuit (20) configured to provide a driving current (15) to the radiation source (10) to control an irradiation intensity of the radiation beam on said surface; and an antenna (40) and / or a sensor circuit (30) having one or more sensors. The driver circuit (20) is configured to receive one or more inputs from the sensor circuit (30) and / or from the antenna (40) and is configured to control the first radiation source (10) on the basis of said one or more inputs.

In one embodiment, a method includes displaying functions associated with a remote device at a wearable computing device, wherein the remote device is paired with the wearable computing device, receiving a user input from a user at the wearable computing device, determining intended operations of one or more of the functions by the user based on the user input, sending instructions for executing the intended operations of the one or more of the functions associated with the remote device to the remote device, and displaying execution results of the intended operations of the one or more of the functions associated with the remote device at the wearable computing device.

Wake-word processing by a wearable electronic device could be carried out when the device is worn by a user and is in a device sleep state, the device including a linear microphone array having at least two microphones vertically spaced from each other, and the device also including a processor. And the example method could involve (i) the at least two microphones of the linear microphone array receiving an audio waveform representing a wake-word utterance, (ii) the processor making a determination, based at least on an angle of arrival of the audio waveform at the at least two microphones of the linear microphone array and / or an energy level of the audio waveform received at the at least two microphones of the linear array, of whether to accept the wake-word utterance or rather to reject the wake-word utterance, and (iii) the processor controlling operation of the device based on the determination.

The invention relates to the technical field of flexible strain sensors, in particular to a patterned laser-induced graphene (LIG) strain sensor for optimizing stress distribution and a preparation method thereof. Comprising a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate, an embedded dot-line patterned structure is arranged on the upper surface of the PDMS substrate, the patterned structure is a laser-induced graphene material, and the laser-induced graphene material is generated through a laser-induced process. The two ends of the patterned structure are provided with electrodes, and the electrodes are coated with conductive silver paste. The preparation method comprises the following steps: ablating a polyimide film pasted on a glass slide through a laser induction technology, inducing to generate three-dimensional porous graphene, pouring PDMS, carrying out vacuum degassing and curing processes, and finally stripping and removing the glass slide and polyimide to obtain the LIG-PDMS flexible strain sensor. According to the invention, a patterned LIG strain sensor can be rapidly prepared, the sensitivity (GF) reaches up to 207.47, and the strain monitoring range can reach 28%. The method can be applied to the fields of wearable electronic equipment and medical monitoring.