US 12,329,875 B2
Electronic device with display
Danielle R. Truckenmiller, Falcon Heights, MN (US); John W. Cain, River Falls, WI (US); Peter D. Ludowise, Cottage Grove, MN (US); Sean D. Regan, St. Paul, MN (US); and Benjamin M. Wilke, Shoreview, MN (US)
Assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/310,765
Filed by Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/052321
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/183434, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/818,401, filed on Mar. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0125982 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/06 (2006.01); A61L 2/28 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/28 (2013.01) [A61L 2/06 (2013.01); H05K 5/0017 (2013.01); H05K 5/02 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing comprising:
a major side portion comprising a curved major surface;
a first section;
a second section; and
a top portion, wherein each of the first section and the second section has different opacities; and
an inside major surface,
wherein the housing is not powder coated or painted;
a display comprising an array of display elements surface mounted on a rigid printed circuit board such that the array of display elements are planar, wherein a display element from the array of display elements is aligned with the second section such that light is transmitted through the second section and projected onto the curved major surface;
a well formed in the housing, wherein the well is accessible from the top portion of the housing, and is oriented along a well axis, and wherein the well is dimensioned to receive at least a portion of a sterilization indicator having spores and a substance fluorescently responsive to a spore concentration and an environmental condition in a sterilizer;
a heating element thermally coupled to the well;
an excitation source to excite the substance in the sterilization indicator, wherein the excitation source is positioned such that light from the excitation source is directed into the well; and
a color sensor positioned adjacent the well, wherein the color sensor is positioned to receive light from the sterilization indicator;
wherein the electronic device is a reading apparatus.