US 12,121,121 B2
Band, watch, and band length adjustment mechanism
Satoshi Yamauchi, Shiojiri (JP); Kenichiro Matsumoto, Fujimi (JP); Toru Takiuchi, Matsumoto (JP); and Yuki Yamashita, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/163,462.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-015484 (JP), filed on Feb. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0240415 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. A44C 5/24 (2006.01)
CPC A44C 5/246 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A band comprising:
a first band attached to one end side of a watch body;
a second band attached to another end side of the watch body; and
a clasp coupling the first band and the second band,
wherein the clasp includes a cover member and an adjustment portion,
the adjustment portion includes:
a pair of rail portions that are arranged along inner sides of two side walls of the cover member in a longitudinal direction of the cover member and have a plurality of grooves for length adjustment;
an adjustment piece coupled at one end thereof to an end portion of the first band;
a pressing portion that is disposed at an inner bottom surface of the cover member and includes an elastic member; and
an engagement pin that is inserted through another end of the adjustment piece and is configured to be engaged with the grooves of the rail portions,
the pressing portion is configured to press the engagement pin against the rail portions in a state where the engagement pin is engaged with the grooves, and
the engagement pin moves from one groove to another groove among the plurality of grooves in a state in which an angle between the adjustment piece and the cover member is 90 degrees.