Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Placement of an antenna in a wrist worn device
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Application No.: US14911726Application Date: 2014-08-19
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Publication No.: US09602642B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Hugo John Martin Vincent
- Applicant: ARM IP LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM IP Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM IP Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Patterson Thuente Pedersen, P.A.
- Priority: GB1314759.0 20130819
- International Application: PCT/GB2014/052539 WO 20140819
- International Announcement: WO2015/025152 WO 20150226
- Main IPC: H04M1/00
- IPC: H04M1/00 ; H04M1/02 ; H01Q1/27 ; H04B1/3827 ; G04R60/12

Abstract:
A wrist worn device having a main body portion and a strap portion. The main body portion comprises a housing for housing a processor, communication circuitry, a screen and tin antenna. The strap portion comprises a strap for attaching the main body portion to a wrist. The housing comprises a central portion that supports the screen and edge portions arranged around the central portion, one of the portions comprising a non-conductive section on an outer surface of said wrist worn device facing away from said wrist when worn; wherein the antenna is supported within the housing in the one of the edge portions comprising the non-conductive section, such that there is an electromagnetic wave path from the antenna to the outer surface through at least a portion of the non-conductive section wherein a portion of the strip overlays the antenna and a portion of the non-conductive section at the outer surface, the portion of the snap comprising a non-conductive portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160205229A1 PLACEMENT OF AN ANTENNA IN A WRIST WORN DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-07-14
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