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DETACHABLE WEARING MEMBER AND WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME
20230056946 · 2023-02-23 ·

A wearing member of a wearable electronic device may have a housing, the wearing member may have a holder body fixed to the housing of the wearable electronic device, the holder body defining a guide recess, a holder member including a fixing portion that protrudes at least partially from a surface of the holder body, a portion of the holder member being engaged in a recess of a side surface of the housing of the wearable electronic device such that the holder member is secured to the holder body, and a rotation member that is pivotably coupled to the holder body, the rotation member including a first portion that includes a guide protrusion that engages the guide recess and a second portion that is couplable to a wearable strap.

Wearable Device Straps and Attachment Hardware Therefor

Low-profile latching mechanisms and related mechanical interfaces for allowing straps and other fastening accessories for limb-wearable devices are provided. The mechanisms in question allow for a very strong, yet easily releasable, connection to be made between a strap accessory and a device housing, with very little of the mechanism being visible.

Quick Release Band/Lug Mechanism for Smartwatch
20230119270 · 2023-04-20 ·

A watch system may include a watchband including a flexible member configured to be mounted onto a wrist of a user, and a puck including watch functionality. The watchband may have an end that has a concave curved shape. The puck may have a connection interface that has a convex curved shape. The connection interface may be to be removably coupled to the end of the watchband. The watchband and the puck may have corresponding locking features that are configured to rotationally and translationally fix the puck to the watchband. The corresponding locking features may be configured to be engaged when the watchband is translated relative to the puck and rotated relative to the puck by a predetermined rotation angle.

Electronic devices and systems

Systems may include a watch band, a watch body including at least one image sensor configured to capture a wide-angle image, a coupling mechanism configured to detachably couple the watch body to the watch band, and at least one biometric sensor on at least one of the watch band or the watch body. Various other related methods and systems.

Device for attaching a bracelet
11464301 · 2022-10-11 · ·

A device for attaching a bracelet to a watch case, the device including, on the one hand, a bar secured to the watch case by a horn, and on the other hand, an insert integral with the end of a bracelet, wherein the bar and the insert are complementary in order to cooperate by interlocking to form removable assembly to make the bracelet interchangeable. The bar is formed by a cylindrical hollow body provided with two retractable pivots, and having at least one housing arranged to cooperate by interlocking with an insert, the bar including a device for holding the insert, and being arranged so as to pivot from a first position, in which the insert is capable of being positioned on the bar, into a second position in which the insert is locked onto the bar by locking device cooperating with the holding device.

Sub-assembly of external parts for timepiece or watch or a piece of jewellery

A sub-assembly of external parts including, a bolt interposed between a first component and a second component compressing together a joint, securing them together by axially blocking the first component, and which cooperates with the second component to enclose a ball occupying a well of depth greater than its diameter, that an orientation housing in the second component or the bolt includes, framed by channels of depth less than its diameter, limited by stops, which ball can occupy, when subjected to the gravity field and/or a magnetic field, both an orientation housing and a complementary housing of depth less than its diameter, that the bolt or respectively the second component includes, for their relative drive by the ball when it is simultaneously braced on a channel and a complementary housing.

ASSEMBLY OF A WRISTBAND TO A WATCH CASE
20230141715 · 2023-05-11 · ·

The device for fixing a wristband to a watch middle includes a connecting element (11) for connection to a wristband (10) or a watch middle (20), at least one pin (1) able to occupy two positions, one projecting from the connecting element (11) and another retracted into a housing (11a) of the connecting element (11), and a receiving element (21) for connection to a watch middle (20) or a wristband (10), having at least one bore (21a). The fixing device includes at least one insert (5), and is designed to occupy at least two configurations: a first configuration in which the at least one pin (1) occupies a position retracted into the connecting element (11), enabling a wristband to be separated from a watch middle, and a second configuration in which the at least one pin (1) occupies a position projecting from the connecting element and is positioned in the at least one bore (21a) of the receiving element (21), the at least one insert (5) forming an interface between the at least one pin (1) and the at least one bore (21a) and/or the housing (11a) to minimize frictional wear on rotation of the at least one pin (1) relative to the receiving element (21) and/or the connecting element (11) respectively.

PORTABLE OBJECT COMPRISING A MIDDLE DEVOID OF FASTENING HORNS AND A REMOVABLE BRACELET

A portable object (1) including a case (20) having a middle (21) devoid of fastening horns and having two longitudinal cavities (110) extending in a longitudinal direction (X-X), a bracelet (30) having two ends (31), each end (31) of the bracelet (30) cooperating with a mounting interface (200) configured to removably cooperate with a longitudinal cavity (110) of the middle (21) to make it possible to mount the bracelet (30). The mounting interface (200) is one-piece and includes: elements (210) for receiving and securing one end (31) of the bracelet (30); elastic casing elements (220) for axially locking the mounting interface (200) in the longitudinal cavity (110) in the longitudinal direction (X-X); elements (230) for locking the mounting interface (200) in the longitudinal cavity (110) in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction (X-X).

PORTABLE OBJECT COMPRISING A CASE, A REMOVABLE BRACELET AND A SYSTEM FOR ATTACHING THE BRACELET TO THE CASE

A portable object includes a case having a middle, a bracelet, and an attachment system for removably securing each end of the bracelet to the middle. The middle includes two longitudinal cavities to form a slide bar. Each end of the bracelet includes a fastening head that cooperates, by sliding, with one of the longitudinal cavities to form the attachment system. The fastening head includes an end flange made of a viscoelastic material. The attachment system includes a viscoelastic fitting for locking axial movement of the fastening head inside the longitudinal cavity by the viscoelastic response of the end flange. The viscoelastic fitting is formed by cooperation of a rigid locking protrusion in each longitudinal cavity to deform the end flange upon insertion of the bracelet. The locking protrusion fits inside a recess made in the end flange to lock the axial movement of the fastening head.

WEARABLE OBJECT COMPRISING A CASE, A REMOVABLE BRACELET AND A SYSTEM FOR FASTENING THE BRACELET TO THE CASE

A wearable object including a middle of a case, a bracelet, and a fastening system for removably securing the bracelet to the middle, the middle including two longitudinal cavities configured to form a slide-bar and receive a hooking head of the bracelet of complementary shape and configured to cooperate by sliding. The fastening system includes elastic casing elements to bolt the axial movement of the hooking head inside the longitudinal cavity, the elastic casing elements including: a rigid bolting protrusion, arranged on an inner wall of each of the longitudinal cavities, cooperating with; two obstacles arranged in the vicinity of an elastic portion of the hooking heads, the obstacles delimiting an inter-obstacle space designed to receive the bolting protrusion and form locking elements of the bolting protrusion; the elastic casing elements being configured to elastically distort the elastic portion of the hooking head during the insertion of the bracelet.