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US 2026/0064153 A1Published application
Wearable device with integrated force gauges
AssigneeOura Health Oy
InventorsTero Juhani Vallius, Jonathan Watson
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a wearable device are described. A wearable device may include a one or more force gauges that are integrated with a printed circuit board (PCB) of the wearable device, with an external housing component of the wearable device, with an internal housing component of the wearable device, or any combination thereof. The one or more force gauges may be configured to measure or estimate a force exerted on various portions of the wearable device.
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A wearable ring device, comprising:
- an external housing component defining an outer curved surface of the wearable ring device;
- an internal housing component defining an inner curved surface of the wearable ring device, the internal housing component coupled with the external housing component, wherein at least a portion of the inner curved surface of the internal housing component is configured to contact a tissue of a user;
- a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) disposed between the internal housing component and the external housing component, the PCB comprising a force gauge that is integrated with the flexible PCB and that has an electrical property that is based at least in part on a deformation of the flexible PCB;
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- a processing component configured to determine a force exerted on one or more portions of the internal housing component based at least in part on a measurement of the electrical property of the force gauge that is based at least in part on the deformation of the flexible PCB.
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A wearable ring device, comprising:
- an external housing component defining an outer curved surface of the wearable ring device;
- an internal housing component defining an inner curved surface of the wearable ring device, the internal housing component coupled with the external housing component, wherein at least a portion of the inner curved surface of the internal housing component is configured to contact a tissue of a user;
- a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) disposed between the internal housing component and the external housing component;
- a force gauge that is integrated with one of the external housing component or the internal housing component and that has an electrical property that is based at least in part on a deformation of the one of the external housing component or the internal housing component;
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- a processing component configured to determine a force exerted on one or more portions of the external housing component or the internal housing component based at least in part on a measurement of the electrical property of the force gauge.
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A method at a wearable device, comprising:
- determining, using one or more processing components of the wearable device, a force exerted on one or more portions of the wearable device based at least in part on a measurement of an electrical property of one or more force gauges of the wearable device, wherein the one or more force gauges are disposed on or within one or more components of the wearable device, and wherein the measurement of the electrical property is based at least in part on a deformation of the one or more components;
- generating a signal that is configured to selectively adjust one or more operational parameters of one or more optoelectronic components of the wearable device based at least in part on the force;
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- acquiring physiological data from a user via the one or more optoelectronic components based at least in part on generating the signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.