Eyewear with magnetic track for electronic wearable device

US10241351B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pogotec, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ronald D. Blum · Roanoke, US
• William Kokonaski · Gig Harbor, US
• Richard Clompus · Trinidad, US
• Walter Dannhardt · Roanoke, US
• Massimo Pinazza · Roanoke, US
• Claudio Dalla Longa · Possagno, IT
• Anita Trajkovska-Broach · Christiansburg, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 10, 2016
• Grant date: Mar 26, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02C2200/02
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An eyewear system according to the present disclosure may include at least one temple, and a temple guide provided on the at least one temple, wherein the temple guide comprises a guide surface defined by a ferromagnetic material of the temple, and wherein the temple guide is configured to magnetically retain an electronic wearable device in slidable attachment therewith and to restrict lateral movement of the electronic wearable device relative to the temple when the electronic wearable device is engaged with the temple guide.