Circular Housing Layout With Angled Battery and Audio Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic apparatuses with a flat shape face challenges in efficiently arranging components due to spatial constraints, particularly with elements like rechargeable batteries, speakers, and vibrators, leading to potential interference and inefficient use of space.
Innovation Solution
The arrangement of components is optimized by positioning the rechargeable battery at an angle within the housing, intersecting with a reference plane, and arranging the speaker and vibrator in staggered orientations to avoid interference, while using a holder to cover the battery and incorporating a circular cross-sectional shape for the housing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If components are arranged in a conventional manner in a flat-shaped housing, then the housing can accommodate basic components, but the arrangement becomes inefficient and components may interfere with each other
Solution Approach 1:
The rechargeable battery is arranged at an angle relative to the reference plane, utilizing three-dimensional space more effectively. This angular arrangement allows the battery to fit within the flat housing while creating optimal spacing for other components like the speaker and vibrator, thereby improving arrangement efficiency and preventing component interference.
Solution Approach 2:
The holder covers at least a part of the rechargeable battery and simultaneously holds the vibrator or speaker from above. This nested arrangement where the holder encompasses multiple components reduces the number of separate mounting structures needed, simplifying the overall device while improving space utilization and preventing interference between components.
2Volume of moving object
If the housing size is reduced to improve portability, then the apparatus becomes more compact, but space for arranging components becomes limited
Solution Approach 1:
By arranging the rechargeable battery at an angle rather than parallel to the reference plane, the design utilizes vertical and diagonal spaces within the housing. This angular configuration allows maximum battery capacity to be fitted into a reduced housing volume while maintaining adequate clearance for other components, effectively resolving the conflict between compact size and component arrangement space.
Solution Approach 2:
The holder is positioned to cover specific portions of the battery and hold other components in localized areas. This localized arrangement optimizes the use of available space within the compact housing, allowing components to be positioned precisely where they fit best without requiring additional overall housing volume.
3Volume of stationary object
If the rechargeable battery is positioned to maximize space utilization, then the housing size is reduced, but the arrangement of other components like speaker and vibrator becomes constrained
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is designed to cover the battery and simultaneously hold the vibrator or speaker from above. This nested structure provides a flexible mounting solution that adapts to the angular battery position while maintaining the ability to position audio and vibration components optimally, thus preserving placement flexibility despite the constrained space from angular battery arrangement.
Solution Approach 2:
The holder can be positioned at different locations along the battery, providing flexibility in component placement. This dynamic positioning capability allows the speaker and vibrator to be arranged in staggered orientations or different configurations depending on specific design requirements, maintaining adaptability even with the battery oriented at an angle for compact housing.
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AI summary
A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape, wherein a cross-sectional shape thereof on a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction is a circular shape. A rechargeable battery has a rectangular parallelepiped shape. The rechargeable battery is provided inside the housing so that a first long side is at an angle to a direction extending from a first position on the side surface portion at which the charging terminal is exposed toward a second position on the side surface portion that is opposite from the first position. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker provided at a position that is between the first long side of the rechargeable battery and a portion of the side surface portion opposing the first long side, on the reference plane.