Samsung patents watch band that snaps into side slot
Samsung has been granted a patent for a wearable device design where the strap attaches to the side of the main body. The band slides into a recessed slot on the side frame and is locked in place by a fastener that passes through at an angle.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a front plate, a rear plate spaced apart from the front plate, and a side frame, a band which comprises a connecting portion that is detachably connected to the housing, and is provided to be worn on the body of a user, and a fastening portion which fixes the connecting portion to the housing, wherein the side frame includes a connecting slot which is concavely formed in the outer circumferential surface, wherein the connecting portion is inserted in the connecting slot along an insertion direction, and wherein the fastening portion, is configured to connect the side frame and the connecting portion while passing through the side frame and the connecting portion in a fastening direction that is inclined with respect to the insertion direction.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device, comprising: a housing comprising: a front plate, a rear plate spaced apart from the front plate, and a side frame enclosing an internal space between the front plate and the rear plate along a circumferential direction of the front plate and the rear plate; a band comprising a connecting portion that is detachably connected to the housing, and provided to be worn on a body of a user; and a fastening portion configured to fix the connecting portion to the housing, wherein the side frame comprises: a connecting slot formed to be recessed on an outer circumferential surface of the side frame, a first fastening hole formed in a first inner side wall of the connecting slot, and a second fastening hole formed in a second inner side wall of the connecting slot opposite the first inner side wall, wherein at least a portion of the connecting portion is inserted into the connecting slot along an insertion direction from the outer circumferential surface toward an inner circumferential surface of the side frame, and wherein the fastening portion is configured to connect the side frame and the connecting portion while passing therethrough, in a fastening direction inclined with respect to the insertion direction, as viewed from the front plate.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device
- Patent number
- US12765648B2
- Application number
- 18366196
- Filed
- Aug 7, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A44C 5/14 Human necessitiesG04B 37/14 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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