Patent ID: 7345958

Claim:
A wrist worn lap counter for a swimmer comprising: an electronic lap counter/timer module including: a water resistant housing having a viewable front face and including a transparent lens covering a digital display, said digital display being operable to simultaneously display a lap set number, lap indicating number, and a current set elapsed time number; first and second input buttons positioned on said housing; said first or second input button, when pressed a first time, being operable to activate said module; said first input button being operable to increase the lap set number by one and to simultaneously start the elapsed time number at zero; said second input button being operable to increase by one the lap indicating number at the end of each lap; said second input button, when pressed and held, being operable to zero the lap indicating number; said first and second input buttons, when simultaneously pressed and held, being operable to deactivate said module; a wrist strap connected to said module for attachment around the wrist of a swimmer.