US 2017/0290530 A1Published application

Smart belt and method for controlling the same

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsJangwoo HONG, Dongchul JIN, Hyunok LEE, Mihyun PARK

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Abstract

A smart belt and a method for controlling the same are provided. The smart belt includes a body having a front surface and side surfaces and allowing a strap to be inserted through the side surfaces to be movable in a first direction, a gear unit provided in the body and configured to adjust an amount of tightening of the strap, and a cover configured to cover a rear surface of the body, wherein the gear unit includes a first shaft provided in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and having a first gear, and a second shaft intersecting with the first shaft and having a second gear engaged with the first gear, wherein the amount of tightening of the strap is adjusted as a rotation force of the second shaft is transferred to the first shaft through the first and second gears.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A smart belt comprising:

a strap;
a body having a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and side surfaces extending between the front surface and the rear surface, the body being configured such that the strap is insertable through a through hole in one of the side surfaces in a first direction;
a gear unit provided in the body, the gear unit being configured to adjust an amount of tightening of the strap by displacing the strap along the first direction, the gear unit including:
a first shaft extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the first shaft being provided with a first gear;
and
a second shaft extending in a second direction, the second direction intersecting the first shaft, and the second shaft being provided with a second gear to engage the first gear;
and
a cover configured to cover the rear surface of the body,
wherein the amount of tightening of the strap is adjusted in response to a rotation force of the second shaft being transferred to the first shaft through engagement of the first gear and the second gear.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/179,558Filed 10 Jun 2016
Priority: KR 10-2016-004424311 Apr 2016
Published: 12 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

A61B 5/11
Measuring devices for testing the shape, pattern, colour, size or movement of the body or parts thereof, for diagnostic purposes: measuring…
A41F 9/025
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A61B 5/0816
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A61B 5/107
Measuring devices for testing the shape, pattern, colour, size or movement of the body or parts thereof, for diagnostic purposes: measuring…