Circular Data Line with Snap-Fit Connection Apparatus

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional data lines are inconvenient to carry due to their linear design, lacking solutions to enhance portability and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A data line with ends featuring connection apparatuses that form a circular shape, allowing for convenient carrying by forming a loop via connection modules such as retractable interfaces, snap-fit mechanisms, or sliding axes, and materials like silica gel for flexibility and aesthetic appeal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a data line is designed in a conventional linear form, then it is simple in structure and easy to manufacture, but it is inconvenient to carry and lacks portability

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconvenience of carryingVSAvoidstructural complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The data line is designed in a circular configuration where the cable forms a loop with the two ends positioned adjacent to each other. This circular design allows the data line to be easily carried around the body (e.g., on the wrist) and improves portability while maintaining structural simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Solution Approach 2:

The first and second connection apparatuses are designed to be connectable to each other, merging the two ends of the data line into a unified circular structure. This combining approach creates the loop configuration that enables convenient carrying without significantly increasing manufacturing complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If connection apparatuses are added to form a circular shape, then portability and user experience are improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveusabilityVSAvoidstructural complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The connection apparatuses are designed with universal connectivity, allowing the first and second connection apparatuses to connect to each other to form a circular shape. The same connection apparatus can also connect to external devices, providing multi-functionality that enhances usability without requiring entirely separate connection mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of the conventional approach where cable ends remain separate for connecting to devices, this design inverts the approach by having the cable ends connect to each other to form a loop, with the connection apparatuses serving dual purposes of both mutual connection and external device connection

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS9017097B2Data line

Publication Date: 2015.04.28 ZTE CORP

AI summary

Disclosed in the present disclosure is a data line, with two ends of the data line being provided with a first interface and a second interface respectively, and the first interface and the second interface being used for connecting to devices, wherein at least one end of the data line is provided with a first connection apparatus, with the first connection apparatus being connected to the other end of the data line or a second connection apparatus provided at the other end of the data line, so that the data line forms a circular shape by way of the connection of the first connection apparatus. By way of the present disclosure, the problem in the related art that is inconvenient to carry the data line is solved, so that the user experience is improved.