Adjustable Housing Structure for Custom Wearable Fit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices, particularly wearable devices, face challenges in accommodating diverse user body shapes due to fixed structural configurations, leading to discomfort and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
The device incorporates a first and second housing with movable coupling through rotating members and adjustable locking structures, allowing for adjustable distances between housings via rotational mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed structural configuration is used, then the device structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but it cannot accommodate diverse user body shapes leading to discomfort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by transforming the fixed housing structure into an adjustable one. The distance between the first and second housings can be dynamically changed through rotating members that move relative to each other, allowing the device to adapt to different body shapes while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the housing into multiple adjustable components (first housing, second housing, and intermediate rotating members). This segmentation allows independent adjustment of each segment's position, enabling the device to accommodate diverse body shapes without requiring complete structural redesign.
2Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable mechanisms are added to accommodate body shapes, then adaptability improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotating members provide dynamic adjustment capability between housings, allowing users to customize the device fit by rotating these members to achieve desired distances. This dynamic mechanism maintains adaptability while controlling complexity through standardized rotational joints.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotating members serve multiple functions: they adjust the distance between housings, provide locking mechanisms to maintain positions, and enable reversible adjustment. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, thereby controlling overall device complexity while achieving customizable fitting.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the distance between housings is fixed, then the manufacturing precision is easier to maintain, but the device cannot be adjusted for different users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic adjustability between housings through rotating members, allowing the distance to be changed after manufacturing. This eliminates the need for high manufacturing precision for fixed positioning, as the adjustment mechanism compensates for dimensional variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking structures are pre-designed with standardized engagement features that ensure precise positioning once adjusted. This preliminary design of locking mechanisms maintains manufacturing precision requirements at acceptable levels while enabling post-manufacturing adjustment capability.
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises: a first housing; a second housing; moving members; a rotating member for adjusting the distance between the first housing and the second housing; an adjusting member including a first coupling part; a flange part; a first locking structure including a first locking part engaged with the first coupling part, and a second locking part that can move together with the first locking part; and a second locking structure including a plurality of first locking protrusions engaged with the second locking part, wherein the adjusting member changes the distance from a first distance to a second distance by rotating in a first rotation direction during a first state, changes the state to a second state by rotating relative to the first locking structure for a designated angle in a second rotation direction, and changes the distance from the second distance to the first distance by rotating in the second rotation direction during the second state.