Badge Card Wireless Earphone with Integrated Transceiver

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional wireless earphones for mobile phones are cumbersome and inconvenient, especially for users who wear glasses, due to their weight and bulk, and they limit user mobility with their wire connections.

Innovation Solution

A mobile communication peripheral device with dual functions of a badge card and a wireless earphone, featuring a main body with a circuit board, earphone, and microphone connected via a wire, which allows for wireless communication without the need for a separate wireless earphone, using a transceiver and signal processing device for audio signal processing and including features like a power switch, indicator, and volume control keys.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a wireless earphone is used to avoid wire linkage limitations, then mobility flexibility is improved, but the device becomes weighty and bulky causing user discomfort

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemobility flexibilityVSAvoidearphone weight

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the badge card function and wireless earphone function into a single integrated device. The badge card body houses the earphone, microphone, and wireless communication components, eliminating the need for a separate wireless earphone and reducing overall device weight and bulk.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The device serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as both a badge card for identification and a wireless earphone for hands-free communication. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for users to carry separate accessories, addressing the weight and bulk issues of dedicated wireless earphones.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If a wired earphone is used to ensure stable connection, then communication reliability is improved, but user mobility is limited by the wire connection

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconnection stabilityVSAvoiduser mobility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical wire connection with a wireless communication system using a transceiver and Bluetooth technology. This substitution maintains reliable audio transmission while completely eliminating the physical wire constraint that limited user mobility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If a separate wireless earphone is carried to enable hands-free communication, then communication convenience is improved, but the number of accessories to carry increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvehands-free communication convenienceVSAvoidnumber of accessories

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the badge card and wireless earphone into a single integrated device, eliminating the need for users to carry separate accessories. The earphone components are housed within the badge card body, reducing the quantity of items to carry while maintaining hands-free communication convenience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The device provides convenient wireless communication without the discomfort of a bulky earphone and the mobility limitations of wired connections, allowing users to receive calls and make calls hands-free while wearing a badge-like device, eliminating the need for additional accessories and reducing the weight of carrying a separate earphone.

Implementation Method 1

a transceiver for receiving and emitting a wireless communication signal

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectWireless communication signal transmission: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 2

a signal processing device electrically connected to the transceiver for processing the wireless communication signal

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectSignal processing:

Implementation Method 3

The earphone is coupled to the main body via a connecting wire for receiving and sending out the first audio signal

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElectroacoustic conversion:

Implementation Method 4

The microphone is coupled to the main body via the connecting wire for receiving a second audio signal

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElectroacoustic conversion:

Data Source

PatentUS7353043B2Mobile communication peripheral device

Publication Date: 2008.04.01 TYMPHANY HK LTD

AI summary

A mobile communication peripheral device includes a main body, a circuit board, an earphone and a microphone. An identification card is disposed on a surface of the main body. The circuit board is disposed within the main body, and includes a transceiver for receiving and emitting a wireless communication signal and a signal processing device electrically to the transceiver for processing the wireless communication signal. The wireless communication signal includes a first audio signal. The earphone is coupled to the main body via a connecting wire for receiving and sending out the first audio signal. The microphone is coupled to the main body via the connecting wire for receiving a second audio signal.