Removable Smart Watch Cover with Soft Mesh-Foam Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart watches are not allowed to be worn during active or contact sports, which limits their use for heart monitoring and activity tracking, especially for individuals with preexisting heart conditions.
Innovation Solution
A removable protective smart watch cover with a soft, mesh-foam flap portion that covers the hard surfaces of the smart watch, allowing it to be worn during contact sports while complying with sport association regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a hard shell cover is used to protect the smart watch, then the watch is protected from damage, but it causes harm and violates regulations during contact sports
Solution Approach 1:
The cover combines a hard outer shell for protection with a soft compliant layer (silicone or foam) on the interior surface that contacts the wrist. This composite structure provides both impact resistance and safety during contact sports, allowing the watch to be worn during athletic activities while maintaining protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The cover incorporates flexible, compliant materials such as silicone or foam layers that can deform during impact events. This flexibility allows the cover to absorb and distribute impact forces while preventing the hard shell from causing injury during contact sports, thus resolving the contradiction between protection and safety.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the smart watch is removed during contact sports, then safety regulations are complied with, but heart monitoring and activity tracking functions are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The compliant interior surface made of soft materials like silicone or foam allows the cover to be worn safely during contact sports while the smart watch remains functional underneath. This enables continuous heart monitoring and activity tracking without removal, resolving the contradiction between safety compliance and functional reliability.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a soft cover is used to comply with sports regulations, then safety during contact sports is improved, but protection against damage to the watch is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cover uses a composite structure with a hard outer shell for impact protection and a soft compliant interior layer for safety during contact sports. This dual-layer construction simultaneously provides both protection against damage and compliance with sports safety regulations, resolving the contradiction between these two requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible compliant layer is positioned between the hard protective shell and the user's wrist, allowing the hard shell to provide protection while the flexible layer ensures safety during contact sports. This arrangement maintains both protection capability and safety compliance.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables smart watch users to monitor their activity and heart rates during sports and exercise without risking damage to the watch, thus fulfilling the purpose of purchasing a smart watch.
Implementation Method 1
The flap portion includes cushioning material configured to overlay at least the window of the tubular body portion when the flap portion is in the closed position
Implementation Method 2
At least one of the tubular body portion and flap portion can have elastic properties
Data Source
AI summary
A removable protective smart watch cover that includes protective flap portion covering the hard surfaces of an associated smart watch. A smart watch user can slip or otherwise position the removable protective smart watch cover over their smart watch to allow smart watch use during contact sports or during regular exercise. In some embodiments, the construction of the removable protective smart watch cover complies with the standard level of protection required to be worn over hard surfaces during regulated contact sports games to allow smart watch wearers to monitor their activity levels during periods of exercise and activity that otherwise would not be allowed.