US 8,025,539 B2Granted

Connector for biometric belt

AssigneeNox Medical Ehf

InventorKormakur Hermannsson

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Abstract

A biometric belt connector for electrically connecting an electrode belt to a biometric device to be carried on a human or animal body. The belt connector comprises a back element and a front element configured to engage with each other in a fixed and locked arrangement, fastening in between them an end of an electrode belt, the front element having a substantially circular hole, an electrically conducting wire which forms a loop, such that part of said wire loop is exposed through said hole when the back and front elements are engaged. The wire loop is connected to a conducting element extending from an end of an electrode belt, which conducting element forms part of or is connected to an electrode in the electrode belt. The hole is of suitable dimension to form a female snap button receiver for a male snap fastener on said biometric device.

Claims10

Dependent claims

Biometric belt connector (1) for electrically connecting an electrode belt (8) to a biometric device to be carried on a human or animal body, the belt connector comprising:

a back element (2), a front element (3), which back and front elements are configured to engage with each other in a fixed and locked arrangement, fastening in between them an end (7) of said electrode belt (8),
said front element having a substantially circular hole (4),
an electrically conducting wire which forms a loop (5), such that part of said wire loop is exposed through said hole (4) when the back and front elements (2,3) are engaged,
said wire loop being connected to a conducting element (6) extending from said end of said electrode belt (8), which conducting element forms part of or is connected to an electrode in said electrode belt (8),
the hole (4) being of suitable dimension to form a female snap button receiver for a male snap fastener on said biometric device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/781,572Filed 17 May 2010
Published: US 2010/0297868 A125 Nov 2010
Granted: 27 Sep 2011
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Classification11 codes

A61B 5/282
For electrocardiography [ECG]: holders for multiple electrodes
A61B 5/6831
Means for maintaining contact with the body: straps, bands or harnesses
A61B 2562/227
Connectors or couplings: sensors with electrical connectors
H01R 11/22
End pieces or tapping pieces for wires, supported by the wire and for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal or…: end…