Wearable environmental sensor device
AssigneeNTT, Inc.
InventorsAkio Tokura, Kei Kuwabara, Takako Ishihara
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Abstract
A wearable environmental sensor includes an environmental sensor arranged on a wall surface of a housing including a sealed section, the wall being in contact with an environment, and a protective structure formed around the environmental sensor, wherein the protective structure includes a plurality of ventilating holes, a sensor surface of the environmental sensor is arranged to face an opening of at least one of the ventilating holes, and an attaching part for attaching the environmental sensor to the wall surface comes into contact only with an edge of a sensor substrate of the environmental sensor and with a portion of a back face of the sensor substrate.
Claims24
A wearable environmental sensor device comprising:
- a housing comprising a sealed section, a protective structure, and a housing wall which separates the sealed section and the protective structure from each other and which is in contact with an environment;
- a sensor substrate;
- an environmental sensor mounted on a front face of the sensor substrate;
- and
- an attaching part attaching the sensor substrate to the housing wall,
- wherein the protective structure is disposed around the environmental sensor,
- the environmental sensor and the sensor substrate are arranged within the protective structure,
- the protective structure comprises a plurality of ventilating holes,
- the environmental sensor is arranged to face an opening of at least one of the plurality of ventilating holes,
- the attaching part contacts only an edge and a portion of a back face of the sensor substrate,
- the attaching part comprises an L-shaped part and a protruding part,
- the L-shaped part contacts only the edge of the sensor substrate, and
- the protruding part contacts only the portion of the back face of the sensor substrate.
A wearable environmental sensor device comprising:
- a housing comprising a sealed section, a protective structure, and a housing wall which separates the sealed section and the protective structure from each other and which is in contact with an environment;
- an environmental sensor mounted on a sensor substrate and arranged on the housing wall;
- and
- an attaching part attaching the sensor substrate to the housing wall,
- wherein the protective structure is disposed around the environmental sensor,
- the protective structure comprises a plurality of ventilating holes,
- the environmental sensor is arranged to face an opening of at least one of the plurality of ventilating holes,
- the attaching part contacts only an edge and a portion of a back face of the sensor substrate,
- the attaching part comprises an L-shaped part and a protruding part;
- the L-shaped part contacts only the edge of the sensor substrate;
- and
- the protruding part contacts only the portion of the back face of the sensor substrate.
A method of providing a wearable environmental sensor device, the method comprising:
- providing a housing comprising a sealed section, a protective structure, and a housing wall which separates the sealed section and the protective structure from each other and which is in contact with an environment;
- mounting an environmental sensor on a front face of a sensor substrate;
- and
- attaching the sensor substrate to the housing wall using an attaching part;
- wherein the environmental sensor and the sensor substrate are arranged within the protective structure,
- the protective structure comprises a plurality of ventilating holes,
- the environmental sensor is arranged to face an opening of at least one of the plurality of ventilating holes,
- the attaching part contacts only an edge and a portion of a back face of the sensor substrate,
- the attaching part comprises an L-shaped part and a protruding part,
- the L-shaped part contacts only the edge of the sensor substrate, and
- the protruding part contacts only the portion of the back face of the sensor substrate.
A method of providing a wearable environmental sensor device, the method comprising:
- providing a housing comprising a sealed section, a protective structure, and a housing wall which separates the sealed section and the protective structure from each other and which is in contact with an environment;
- mounting an environmental sensor on a sensor substrate and on the housing wall;
- and
- attaching the sensor substrate to the housing wall using an attaching part,
- wherein the protective structure is disposed around the environmental sensor,
- the protective structure comprises a plurality of ventilating holes,
- the environmental sensor is arranged to face an opening of at least one of the plurality of ventilating holes,
- the attaching part contacts only an edge and a portion of a back face of the sensor substrate,
- the attaching part comprises an L-shaped part and a protruding part;
- the L-shaped part contacts only the edge of the sensor substrate;
- and
- the protruding part contacts only the portion of the back face of the sensor substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.