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US 10,503,121 B2Granted
Wristwatch with flexible circuit board installed through band portion
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKentaro Matsunaga, Tatsuhito Aono
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Abstract
There is provided an electronic device including: a first segment and a second segment linked to each other in a rotationally movable manner; a flexible circuit board installed throughout the first segment and the second segment in interiors of the first segment and the second segment; a loosening portion formed by the flexible circuit board being pushed out while being bent in the second segment; and a support unit configured to maintain a direction of pushing-out of the loosening portion to a fixed direction.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- a wristwatch main body;
- and
- a wristwatch band portion, wherein the wristwatch band portion comprises:
- a first segment and a second segment linked to each other in a rotationally movable manner;
- a flexible circuit board installed throughout the first segment and the second segment in interiors of the first segment and the second segment such that the flexible circuit board extends out of the first segment into the second segment;
- a slack section in the flexible circuit board which is curved and includes a bend in a predetermined direction in the second segment, the slack section including at least two points of inflection;
- and
- a protrusion that bends the flexible circuit board to impart the bend in the slack section in a fixed direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.