Cross-cut: belt
Axis: form_factor
5 corpus entries disclose this tag.
Earliest disclosure: 1939-05
Listed in chronological order. Each entry’s prior_art_notes and
disclosure_citation constitute the citeable prior art material.
- Batman’s utility belt (1939-05) —
batman-utility-belt[fictional] — Detective Comics #29 (cover date July 1939; on sale May 1939), DC Comics — a worn waist belt with compartmented pouches carrying an array of tools and devices, the canonical ‘belt as a wearable equipm… - Dune — Holtzman shield belt (worn personal force-field generator) (1965-08-01) —
dune-holtzman-shield-belt[fictional] — Herbert, Frank. Dune. Chilton Books, 1965; a worn belt that projects a body-conforming defensive force field (‘shield’), with selectable settings affecting what can pass through it. - Kamen Rider — ‘Henshin Belt’ (gesture-and-command transformation belt) (1971-04-03) —
kamen-rider-henshin-belt[fictional] — Kamen Rider (Toei television series, premiered 3 April 1971); a worn waist belt (‘Typhoon’ and its successors) that, on a gesture plus a spoken command from the wearer, triggers a transformation of th…Williams et al. (1998) — accelerometer-based automatic fall and activity monitor for telecare (1998-10)
- id:
williams-1998-automatic-fall-detector - corpus: academic
- form factor: belt
- creator: G. Williams / K. Doughty / K. Cameron / D.A. Bradley
- disclosure: Williams G, Doughty K, Cameron K, Bradley DA. ‘A smart fall and activity monitor for telecare applications.’ Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 1151-1154.
- ip status: unknown
- sensors: sensor-accelerometer, sensor-piezoelectric
- algorithms: algo-fall-detection, algo-activity-classification
- prior art notes: Discloses a body-worn (waist/trunk) device that automatically detects a fall from accelerometer/impact signals — distinguishing falls from normal activity — and raises a telecare alarm, without requiring the wearer to press a button. Anticipates automatic-fall-detection wearable claims combining ‘a body-worn inertial sensor’, ‘a classifier distinguishing a fall from activities of daily living’, and ‘an automatic alert on detection’. Anchor for the fall-detection cross-cut; combined with watch/pendant form-factor disclosures, makes wristworn/pendant automatic fall detection obvious under [[obviousness-template]].
Medtronic MiniMed CGMS (1999) — first FDA-cleared continuous glucose monitoring system (1999-06)
- id:
medtronic-minimed-cgms-1999 - corpus: private
- form factor: patch
- creator: MiniMed Inc. / Medtronic Diabetes
- disclosure: MiniMed Inc. (later Medtronic Diabetes). ‘Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS)’, FDA-cleared June 1999 — the first commercial CGM: a subcutaneous needle-type amperometric glucose sensor coupled to a body-worn recorder logging interstitial-glucose readings for retrospective (‘professional’) review. (Real-time display followed with the Guardian RT, 2005.)
- ip status: patented
- sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
- algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
- prior art notes: Discloses the first commercial continuous glucose monitor: a percutaneous needle-type amperometric glucose sensor in subcutaneous tissue feeding a body-worn recorder that logs interstitial glucose over days for review. Anticipates CGM-system claims combining ‘a wearable housing’, ‘a subcutaneous needle-type enzyme-electrode glucose sensor’, and ‘logging/transmission of interstitial-glucose readings’ from 1999 — a commercial realization of [[shichiri-1982-wearable-needle-glucose-sensor]] (1982). Product-side anchor for the patch × glucose-CGM cross-cut; Dexcom (2006) and Abbott Libre (2014) follow.