EP0915398A1 - Improved security wristwatch - Google Patents

Abstract

The watch functions are indicated by the primary and secondary hands of the watch. The watch comprises a strap (3), made up of modules that are electrically and mechanically connected. The modules include sealed microelectronic circuit and all are joined to the watch circuitry by a double wire. One of the modules is a stethoscopic pellet which monitors the arterial pressure. A warning can be set for the arterial pressure so that if a limit is exceeded an alarm is activated. The pellet can be arranged to be in permanent contact with the forearm artery. The watch can be further equipped with a radio emitter/receiver module and a GPS unit for contact with a remote station, upon pressing of a button. Personal medical and other data can be input to a watch data store.

Description

The present invention relates to a safety wristwatch perfected with micro-electronic services.

The wristwatch of the invention has various benefits thanks to a micro-chip (microchip) and some micro-electronic modules placed in the double back available to the watch and / or in a modular bracelet chain.

At present, we are not aware of watches which display these characteristics and which allow a series of basic functions and more essential for the person wearing the said watch.

The watch of the invention operates by a mechanical movement or automatic and the basic micro-electronic circuit is formed by a micro-chip (chip) which is installed in the double bottom available to the watch case.

This micro-chip (chip) is loaded by software (software) and can put remember most of the information that the watch owner want to record, for example: their medical records and other information useful or personal.

This recording or loading of information to be housed in the watch can be carried out by the seller-depositary of the commercial company watchmaker at the time of sale and modified at any point of sale sale by means of a software system (software) and will be accessible easy for hospital, police etc. in case of emergency.

• soit noyé dans une matière isolante et flexible dans le(s) module(s) du bracelet et/ou de la chaíne de la montre
• soit dans le(s) module(s) métalliques(s) (Cage Faraday) comme protection contre les champs magnétiques.

seront connectés par un "bus de communication", c'est-à-dire par une connectique filaire, et permettront d'atteindre une ample gamme de fonctions additionnelles, étant donné leur répartition parmi les modules composant le bracelet et/ou la chaíne de la montre.The micro-chip constitutes the basic circuit for a series of integrated electronic micro-circuits, which

• either embedded in an insulating and flexible material in the module (s) of the bracelet and / or the watch chain
• either in the metal module (s) ( Cage Faraday ) as protection against magnetic fields.

will be connected by a "communication bus", that is to say by a wired connection, and will make it possible to achieve a wide range of additional functions, given their distribution among the modules making up the bracelet and / or the chain the watch.

Each module "electronic circuit" of the bracelet and / or the chain of the watch is connected to each other by a wired double wire connection and to the watch by a plug closure system. This sheet will engaged in a cell of a locking system of the housing of the watch to make contact.

• Un module - indicateur
• Un module - radio (récepteur/émetteur) voir bouton d'alarme (détresse)
• Un module - capteur stéthoscopique de tension artérielle
• Un module vide à charger
• et toute autre sorte de modules, selon les services que cette montre-bracelet et/ou de poche doit offrir.

Thus, according to the wishes of the watch owner, the bracelet and / or the watch chain can be composed of different types of modules already loaded by software (software) or to be loaded later, for the following functions, as example:

• A module - indicator
• A radio module (receiver / transmitter) see alarm button (distress)
• One module - stethoscopic blood pressure sensor
• An empty module to load
• and any other kind of modules, depending on the services that this wristwatch and / or pocket watch must offer.

The watch is fitted with an alarm (distress) button to signal the distress or imminent danger, button on the left side of the watch case.

Applications:

a) Lorsque la personne en détresse appuie sur ce bouton, qui est connecté avec le module radio (émetteur / récepteur) ce module micro-électronique émet un signal qui est capté soit:

• par un système accessoire du téléphone de la personne, servant de relais pour retransmettre l'appel de détresse ou de danger au central de secours, ( soit une société de protection avec qui la personne a souscrit un contrat à ce sujet, soit le central téléphonique d'assistance lorsque la personne se trouve dans une chambre d'hôpital ou dans une maison de retraite, etc.), soit
• par un système de radio capté par un système de satellite GPS (Global Positioning System = système de positionnement mondial) ou n'importe quel autre système) ou un centre de transmission régional qui retransmet l'appel de détresse au centre de secours d'une société de protection avec qui la personne a souscrit un contrat, afin que cette société de protection et/ou le central GPS local, disposant d'un équipement/tableau de détection GPS qui lui permet de localiser un appel de détresse envoyé dans un certain périmètre, puisse intervenir rapidement.

b) Pour faciliter la recherche de personnes

• ayant un problème de santé (danger de syncope, perte de mémoire et/ou autres raisons) ou
• qui pratiquent un sport dangereux, (ski alpin, par exemple)

cet émetteur/ récepteur répondra automatiquement à un signal de recherche (dont le code est connu par la société de protection, avec qui la personne qui utilise la montre a souscrit un contrat et/ou le service de tourisme dans une station de ski) permettant ainsi la localisation de la personne recherchée.

a) When the person in distress presses this button, which is connected with the radio module (transmitter / receiver) this micro-electronic module emits a signal which is received either:

• by an accessory system of the person's telephone, serving as a relay to transmit the distress or danger call to the emergency center, (either a protection company with which the person has signed a contract on this subject, or the telephone center assistance when the person is in a hospital room or in a retirement home, etc.), or
• by a radio system picked up by a GPS (Global Positioning System) system or any other system) or a regional transmission center which transmits the distress call to the rescue center of a protection company with which the person has signed a contract, so that this protection company and / or the local GPS central, having a GPS detection equipment / board which allows him to locate a distress call sent within a certain perimeter , can intervene quickly.

b) To facilitate the search for people

• having a health problem (danger of fainting, memory loss and / or other reasons) or
• who practice a dangerous sport, (alpine skiing, for example)

this transmitter / receiver will automatically respond to a search signal (whose code is known by the protection company, with whom the person who uses the watch has signed a contract and / or the tourist service in a ski resort) thus allowing the location of the person sought.

GPS. - the 24 GPS satellites which rotate in six orbits at 18,000 km altitude, equipped with atomic clocks, computers and transmitters / receivers, transmit the position of an object a thousand times per second. In measuring the time it takes to receive each signal, a receiver based on land can determine the distance from the satellite. By combining the data provided by several satellites we can calculate exactly its latitude, longitude and possibly its altitude.

The U.S. military is warning civilian users that GPS signals have a margin of error of 100 meters. In reality, this margin is corrected by a network of ground stations, which allow finally an accuracy of the order of one meter. Anyone can have access to this system, completely free.

According to Peter Huber, an American technology specialist in question, if the demand increases for this kind of equipment, the prices will automatically fall. Surely the GPS will then become a option as banal as a simple car radio.

The watch has a stethoscopic patch - tension sensor blood pressure to automatically measure blood pressure.

This sensor, incorporated in the bracelet, being in constant contact with the forearm artery and programmed by an "electronic circuit" module verifiable on a small counter (no 2) of the watch, thanks to the module display, is fitted with a striking mechanism which signals an anomaly as soon as the voltage exceeds the set limit (such as the wake-up mechanism of a watch).

This system would allow rapid intervention in the event of a sudden high pressure from which more than a third of the world's population suffers industrialized and which represents a constant danger of stroke or other suites. Or in the event of a voltage irregularity for a period exceeding the programmed time.

The watch has a display module.

Any display mode, either by hand on the dial or on one of the watch counters can be activated. In addition, a system of "dial or window can be programmed to receive messages or other services.

The watch has a locking system.
In order to avoid any possibility of interference with navigation devices and other devices, the radio module (transmitter / receiver) and / or any other module can be blocked by a manual code locking system adjustable by the button or electronically by download.

If a patient needs protection, a second code can be introduced to also block the opening of the bracelet, thus allowing quickly locate a person with memory loss or before a serious incident happens to him. If this person came to forcibly open the bracelet, or if in the event of an accident, an irregularity in the blood pressure continued beyond the programmed time, the system alarm would immediately go into effect and those charged protection could intervene quickly.

Figure 1:

montre une vue d'ensemble de la montre d'invention

Figure 2:

montre une vue perspective d'un maillon du bracelet de la montre d'invention

Figure 3:

montre une vue latérale de la montre

Figure 4:

montre une vue perspective du boítier ouvert de la montre

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montre une vue perspective de la montre.

In order to be able to understand more easily not only the constitution, but also the actual use of the invention watch, the following refers to the practical use of production, that is to say the only enumerative execution but in no way limiting the latter, as and how it is demonstrated in the attached drawings:

Figure 1:

shows an overview of the invention watch

Figure 2:

shows a perspective view of a bracelet link of the invention watch

Figure 3:

shows a side view of the watch

Figure 4:

shows a perspective view of the open case of the watch

Figure 5:

shows a perspective view of the watch.

The drawings refer to the parts as follows: the watch [1], constituted by a dial [2] and a bracelet [3]

The bracelet [3] being composed of parts or pieces [4], each of which of them constitutes an electronic circuit module.

Parts or modules [4] are connected to each other by connectors wired to double wire [5] and to the watch by a closure system regulated by a button [6] which defines a locking.

The watch at the dial has side buttons [7], intended at normal watch setting and an alarm button [8], connected to counters [9] which appear on the dial.

The watch contains a micro-chip [10] installed in the double bottom [11] of the watch case, on which are stored the information that the watch owner wishes to register.

In the strap [3] of the watch [1] is a tablet stethoscopic [12] - blood pressure sensor, details of which are shown in figure 5.

In the watch case appears a watch movement [13], in in addition, the case closes with a double cover [14].

The nature of the invention being sufficiently described, as well as the manner to carry it out in practice, it should be noted that the provisions indicated previously and represented in the attached drawings are susceptible to modifications of details provided that they do not alter not the basic principle.

Claims (5)

The advanced safety wristwatch; of the type that includes a watch body whose functions are indicated by the hands main and secondary of the watch face, which is united by a bracelet, made up of parts linked together; characterized because that the parts of the bracelet are connected micro-electronic modules between them by a double wire connection, forming a circuit electronic, and to the watch by a plug closure system which fits into the cell of a closure system incorporated in the watch case; containing in one of the parts of the bracelet a stethoscopic patch - blood pressure sensor - which is reflected in a small counter with needle, appearing on the dial, with a warning bell mechanism when blood pressure exceeds the programmed limits. Improved safety wristwatch according to claim [1], characterized because the blood pressure sensor patch is arranged in the inside of the bracelet at a point where the patch is in permanent contact with the artery of the forearm. Improved safety wristwatch according to claim [1], characterized because the watch body has a module indicator, programmable for reception, such as messages. Improved safety wristwatch according to claim [1], characterized because it has a radio module, transmitter / receiver which can be blocked by a locking system with code manual adjustable by a button or push button arranged in the body of the watch or electronically by downloader. Improved safety wristwatch according to claim [1], characterized because it contains a micro-chip installed in the double back of the watch case on which the information that the Watch owner wishes to save can be stored.

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