US 12,332,048 B2
Electronic tape measure
Andri Bargetzi, Zurich (CH); Daniel Kormann, Kreuzlingen (CH); Serder Tutal, Ofterdingen (DE); Anders Widgren, Taby (SE); Bernhard H Tinz, Reutlingen (DE); and Teresa Mandl, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to SIGVARIS AG, St. Gallen (CH)
Appl. No. 17/918,555
Filed by SIGVARIS AG, St. Gallen (CH)
PCT Filed Mar. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/058375
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/209261, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 00442/20 (CH), filed on Apr. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0133202 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G01B 3/1069 (2020.01); A41H 1/02 (2006.01); G01B 3/1046 (2020.01); G01B 3/1071 (2020.01); G01B 11/02 (2006.01)
CPC G01B 3/1069 (2020.01) [A41H 1/02 (2013.01); G01B 3/1046 (2020.01); G01B 3/1071 (2013.01); G01B 11/026 (2013.01); G01B 2003/1074 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic measuring tape for measuring a body part comprising
a housing having a tape outlet opening,
a tape drum rotatably mounted around an axis of rotation in said housing, said axis of rotation defining an axial, a radial and an azimuthal direction,
a tape with length markings attached with an inner end to the tape drum, windable thereon and extendable out of the tape outlet opening,
a read-out module arranged to read out the markings,
a data processing module connected to the read-out module and adapted to provide a measuring instruction to a user and to process a read-out length measurement,
an input module connected to the data processing module and arranged to receive an input from the user,
a display module connected to the data processing module and arranged to display the measurement instruction and arranged on the housing in a radial-azimuthal plane, characterized in that
the housing in the radial-azimuthal plane has dimensions of at most 100 mm×100 mm, and the display module comprises a screen, wherein the screen occupies at least 15% of at least one side surface of the housing in a radial-azimuthal plane, is touch-sensitive, serves as an input module, and shows, supported by a graphical representation, of how to arrange the measuring tape anywhere on the body part.