Band and slider
09795198 · 2017-10-24
Inventors
Cpc classification
A44C5/0015
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A44C5/0084
HUMAN NECESSITIES
International classification
Abstract
A wearable or stationary cognitive reminder for mechanical and electronic tracking of highly repeatable actions represented by selectable indicia on a band performed by moving a slide-able “window” frame and a bezel ring slider. Examples of use are: pill dosage counter, golf bracelet scorer, and bracelet voting device. Chosen indicia position and clock time are recorded and transmitted to non-included electronic device for further characterization or action. Non-included data receivers include cell phones, data tracking devices, or electronic games. Transferred data is available for continuous tracking, compilation, additional action, and verification of selected indicia.
Claims
1. A cognitive reminder and tracker comprising: a repositionable slider; a band; and integrated electronics, wherein the slider visually frames, integers, indicia, icons, or emoticons on the band, wherein the integrated electronics recognizes the position of the slider's relative position on the band and digitally stores the slider's relative position, time duration of the slider's relative position on the band and clock time as data on a data chip, and wherein the data can be transferred from the cognitive reminder and tracker to another device.
2. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1; further comprising a rotating ring coupled to the slider for selecting integers, indicia, icons, or emoticons on the slider for selecting additional electronic modes of the band in conjunction with the slider's relative position on the band, wherein the integrated electronic recognize and store the rotating ring's clock time, and time duration of the rotating ring's relative position on the slider.
3. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising a transmitter for transmittal to or retrieval by another device through direct connection, radio frequency, cell phone, or cell phone application for further characterization.
4. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 further comprised of, frictional forces created with band elasticity, band protuberances, raised band indicia or a slider pinch plate keep the slider on the band in a relative position over an indicia, icon, or emoticon, wherein elastic and frictional forces retain band and slider invention on a non-included structure.
5. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 2 further comprising colored LED signature lights confirming successful electronic slider and rotating ring position recognition and data delivery.
6. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 2 further comprised of a non-included programmable receiver or transmitter, that contains instructions for slider and rotating ring data to further define, characterize, total, retransmit, and time coordinate.
7. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising a pill dosage tracker and reminder system with indicia, icons, or emoticons representing day of week, AM-PM, morning/afternoon/night, and/or integers.
8. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 2, comprised of a golf strokes system for tracking on a per hole basis an 18 hole round of golf, wherein the band and rotating ring indicia are integers one through eighteen, and optionally zero, with-the slider's integers, indicia or icons and rotating ring's indicia, integers, or icons tracking actual strokes, actual stroke comparisons to regulation, strength of hole handicap, and a total round score.
9. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 2, comprised of a daily caloric intake system with major numerical indicia increments of 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 2000, and 2400 representing calorie intake for a day, wherein the rotating ring contains indicia, icons, or emoticons representing fruit, dairy, meat, vegetables, nuts, and legumes or day of week.
10. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 comprising a voting system with indicia, icons, or emoticons representing a team player jersey number, YES/NO, happy/sad or integers.
11. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 or claim 2 further comprising a receiver and color LED light signatures recognizing in-bound data types accepted from a specified non-included unit, wherein the data types may include incoming cell phone call and successful transmission and receipt of data by the non-included unit.
12. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 further comprising annulus band geometry or of linear band geometry which has connecting ends such as a clasp, buckle, or hook and loop.
13. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 further comprising of a power source, transmitter, radio frequency chip, receiver, or data port.
14. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 2 wherein the rotating ring remaining in position through ring to slider bezel indentations and friction until intentional rotation.
15. The cognitive reminder and tracker of claim 1 or claim 2 further comprised of a daily routines tracking system represented by icons or emoticons for phone, school, pharmacy, pickup, music, or sports.
Description
DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
(1) The Band and Slider is a Band with indicia and an integral repositionable Slider where the Slider's viewing window frame centers on one Band indicia to indicate and communicate the intended message. Band elasticity, Band protuberances and the Slider's pinch plate keep the Slider from shifting off the chosen Band indicia.
(2) The Slider's position on the Band's indicia communicates an action performed, to be performed, to convey a conditional state, or a message. The Slider remains on the Band's relative position until the Slider is repositioned to another Band position indicating a different characteristic or mode. The new conditional state is indicated by the different Slider position with the viewing window frame surrounding the different indicated indicia.
(3) Band elasticity allows the invention (
(4) Elastic forces (Table A) create contact friction between invention surfaces (included) and application surfaces (non-included) enabling the Slider to hold its relative position on the Band.
(5) TABLE-US-00001 TABLE A Elastic Forces: Example Band Size to Application Size Typical Circumferential Measurements of Invention for Pill Bottle Example Band natural state circumference Minimum pill Maximum pill (cm) bottle size bottle size 22 (wristlet size) 15.5 16 25 13 14 21 9 10 15
(6) When contacting a non-included unit elasticity pulls the Slider and Band against the non-included unit keeping the Band and Slider on the application and aiding Slider position retention. The invention's included frictional features and band protuberances (
(7) The Slider (
(8) The Band and Slider invention can be configured as a mechanical form or a mechanical/electronic form. Design characteristics are added as the Band and Slider morphs from mechanical to mechanical/electronic (
(9) TABLE-US-00002 TABLE B Mechanical and Electronic Band and Slider Characteristics SLIDER BAND ROTATING RING MECHANICAL INDICIA INDICATING Viewing window frame Indicia Bezel detents Grip surface Icons Indicia Pinch plate Elastic Icons Retention slots Protuberances Centering hole One piece Two piece ELECTRONIC INDICIA RECOGNITION Position sensor Position sensor Position sensor Continuity Indicating Continuity Indicating Data storage - Chip Data storage - Chip Time clock Time clock Data transmittal Data transmittal Data receipt Data receipt confirmation confirmation Data retrieval Data retrieval Power source Power source
(10) The electronic configuration allows for receipt of digital position data through radio frequency or cell phone frequencies. Receipt confirmation or a limited discrete inbound acknowledgement is in the most advanced electronic design.
(11) The Slider of the Band has enhanced functionality by adding a rotating component around the Slider's window frame. The rotating Slider component adds modes of additional information to the framed Band indicia. The Slider base unit has sections or icons that can be indicated by the Slider's Rotating Ring. The acronym BSRRI is used for Band/Slider/Rotating Ring with Indicia.
(12) The Rotating Ring component has an arrow or line that will index to the desired Slider base section or point to the top/bottom half of the Band indicia. The Band's entire indicia meaning consists of Slider's framed indicia and the additional mode indicated by the position of the Rotating Ring. The base Slider is sectioned into halves, triads, quads, multiple sections, or icons dictated by the application. The indexed Icon position of the rotating component is indicated visually and stored in electronic form.
(13) Example, the windowed indicia is day-of-week (Tue) but enhanced by Slider base sections of morning and evening icons or AM/PM, or representative colors (
(14) Additionally, the multiple selectable communiques on a single Band eliminate multiple bands of similar characteristics and allow for a few highly repeated communiques either in the mechanical or electronic form.
(15) The Band:
(16) Examples of the Band indicia are: time sequences, emoticons, icons, words or numbers. The Band material is thermoplastic with elastic properties. The Band may be opaque, clear, or magnifying as application requires and is of annulus form or linear form with connectable ends such as buckles or Velcro™.
(17) Contact by routing the Band through the Slider, Band elasticity, and protuberances on the Band provide frictional forces for Slider position retention. The frictional forces are large enough to prevent unintentional Slider movement but small enough for repositioning with intension. The Band protuberances assist in mechanical separation of Band indicia.
(18) The annulus Band will have various circumferences, widths, and thickness dependent on the application. In a typical pill bottle design the elastomeric annulus width, in its un-stretched natural state, would typically be 8 to 12 mm. This allows for the stretched (taught) invention to have sufficient contact friction on all surfaces and retain legibility of the indicia. The thickness is 1 mm in the natural state condition. The Table A presents typical dimensional characteristics of Band sizes for pill bottle application and wrist application.
(19) The Indicia size is dependent on the annulus size and the Indicia characters. The smallest Band's Indicia representing the 7 days of the week are 10 to 12 mm long. This allows for larger print for readability and space for protuberance on the face clear separation between the Indicia limiting confusion on the Slider indication.
(20) Band with Protuberances (
(21) The protuberances keep the Slider from inadvertently moving to another position. The integral side separating Protuberances (7B) extend from the Band edge and faces with a protuberance slightly wider than the Slider retention slots. Protuberances flex to slide through the retention slots of the Pinch Plate. The centering Protuberance (7A) mates with a centering hole (8C) of alternate Pinch Plate design (
(22) The Separating Protuberances (7B) are located between communiques prohibiting unintended movement of the Slider “window” off of the intended communique. The Band protuberances contact the Slider retention slot during unintentional position change therefore retaining the viewing window over the chosen indicia. The side protuberances are side hairs or wedge shaped or raised flats extending on front, back, or edge of Band. In addition to preventing unintentional movement they provide physical separation between the Indicia.
(23) The Centering Protuberances (7A) are integral and of the same material as the Band. The Protuberances fractionally extend away from the flat portion of the band. The centering protuberances, dimple or nodule, are placed on the opposite face of the Band visual communique and are used to engage centering hole in Slider back plate. Typically used for electronic version but may be required on non-electronic. In electronic version the Centering Protuberances are typically part of the position sensors.
(24) Protuberances are flexible and impinge on the Slider's Retention Slot or Pinch Plate centering hole. The Slider temporarily deforms the protuberance as the Slider moves across the protuberance and onto a different communique. The Protuberances on the smallest annulus are 2 mm in diameter or width and will extend 1 mm perpendicular from the band surface. The protuberance size will be proportional with the Band size and characteristics.
(25) The Slider:
(26) The Slider clasps the Band but is repositionable to various locations on the Band. The Slider's front is a frame opening. This aperture surrounds or points to each unique Band indicia. The selected Band's communique is viewable through the Slider frontal opening thus communicating the chosen Band indicia. The Slider and Band have frictional surfaces holding the Slider relative position until repositioned.
(27) The Slider has a clasp arrangement where the openings allow the annulus Band to slip onto the Slider during assembly. The Slider clasping slots of the Pinch Plate zone are fractionally wider than the Band width and create Band offsets that create frictional surfaces between the Band and the Slider.
(28) The Slider's Pinch Plate is used during Band and Slider assembly, Band retention within Slider, and Band and Slider friction against a non-included device. The Pinch Plate is configured in two designs. One design clips over the Band for a straight through passage of the Band through the Slider. The straight through slots are rectangular and fractionally larger than the Band to avoid pinching the Band.
(29) The second configuration of the Pinch Plates creates a serpentine configuration of the Band creating additional friction between the Band and the Slider. A two-piece Slider design (
(30) The vertical side slots around the Pinch Plate hold the Band in a slight curve or serpentine shape around the Pinch Plate while exposing the Band's communique in front. The Pinch Plate design holds the Slider in position against the Band and the non-included unit while also allowing the Slider to be repositioned on the Band. The three Pinch Plate (sides and top) opening widths are slightly larger than the width of the Band. The frictional forces between the Band and Slider are created with the serpentine arrangement of the Band. Frictional forces are also applied to the Slider by the elastic characteristic of the Band.
(31) The artistic Slider (
(32) The Rotating Ring:
(33) The Band and Slider with Rotating Ring acronym is BSSRI. The Rotating Ring is of bezel design that can point to specific locations on the fixed component of the base Slider or the top half/bottom half of the Band. The Rotating Ring has a centered opening that does not interfere with the Band indicia framed by the base unit Slider. Band and Slider with Rotating Ring (BSRRI) in electronic form is in
(34) The Electronics:
(35) The electronic band and slider (
(36) Band Indicia:
(37) The Indicia or Function: examples or in combination: Pill Bottles, Golf Strokes, Caloric Intake, Marathon Mileage, Food Containers, Packages, Drink Containers, Packages, Consumable Quantities, Bandage Day Tracker, Dates, Relative Position, Time, Quantities, and Specific Directions.
(38) These are Indicia examples that would be viewable through the Slider window frame. Viewable Indicia may be abbreviated due to Band circumferential limitations. Most have demarcations between whole framed Indicia for fractional values.
(39) Time— 1. Day of the Week—SUN, M, T, W, TH, F, SAT 2. Month—Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, . . . . 3. AM—PM 4. Due—1.sup.st qtr, 2.sup.nd qtr. 3.sup.rd qtr. 4.sup.th qtr.
(40) Quantity— 1. Daily Dosage—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 OR 2, 4, 6, 8 2. Caloric Intake—250, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2250, 2250+++ 3. Mileage—1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13.2 4. Kilometers—1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 5. Night—Day 6. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
(41) Relative Position, Numbers, Lettering, Signatures, Sequences— 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, . . . 2. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, 3. COLTS Ring of Honor: #18, #11, #39, #24, . . . 4. COLTS '13: 12, 80, 50, 34, . . .
(42) Possession— 1. Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter 2. Mine, Yours, Anybody 3. WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4 (work station)
(43) Logistics and Portability— 1. Ready, Not Ready 2. Check, Expedite, Normal, Deliver 3. HEAVY—LIGHT 4. Expedite, Not Rush, Fragile, International, Repack
(44) Words— 4. YES—NO 5. Love Me—Love Me Not 6. True—False—Maybe—NOT 7. Please, Thanks, Welcome 8. Emergency, Call Friend, 9. Clean, Dirty, Wash 10. Love, joy, friend 11. Low Cal, Regular, No Mayo 12. Agree, Disagree
(45) Emoticons, Characters, Colors— 1. SMILEY, SAD FACE, FROWN, MAD 1. Red, Yellow, Green 2. Black—White
(46) Pill Dosage Tracker and Reminder
(47) The Pill Bottle Example (
(48) Golf Wristlet Scorer
(49) The Simple Golf Wristlet Scorer (
(50) The electronic Golf Wristlet Scorer has forms with and without the Rotating Ring. The Simple Golf Scorer can track a round of golf with integers, a stroke icon and a hole icon. Additional features can be completed by adding the Rotating Ring. The embedded chip logic along (
(51) The Band and Slider with Rotating Ring (BSRRI) in Electronic form (
(52) Voting
(53) The Voting example is shown in
BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF DRAWINGS
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(60) The Slider has a Pinch Plate (A) back to hold or clasp the Band into the Slider into the Retention Slots (C) but allows the Band to slip through the Slider with intentional force applied. The open face area of the Slider is proportionally sized to the width of the Band and the indicia.
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(74) TABLE A. (in text). Elastic Forces: Example Band Size to Application Size: This table shows the importance of elasticity in Band design. The Band is of annulus design or linear with fasten-able ends. The elasticity force assists with frictional contact of Band and Slider on non-included device to keep the invention from slipping off the non-included device.
(75) TABLE B. (in text) Mechanical and Electronic Band and Slider Characteristics: This table shows Band and Slider characteristics that may differ based on mechanical only design (INDICIA INDICATING) or mechanical/electrical design (INDICIA RECOGNITION).