Connector Magnetic Attraction Guide Column Crash Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Handheld electronic devices and their accessories often suffer from reduced service life due to improper connection structures, which can lead to crashes and transient noise issues when docked, affecting user experience.
Innovation Solution
A connector system featuring a first connecting unit with magnetic bodies and a second connecting unit with iron-coated surfaces, along with a conical guide column and threaded structure, ensures smooth and noise-free docking by using magnetic attraction and conductive assemblies of varying lengths to prevent collisions and mute audio devices during power-up.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional connecting structure is used to connect the handheld electronic product to accessories, then the device can be manufactured with simple structure, but the service life is reduced due to crashes and transient noise during docking
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting structure is divided into a guide structure portion and a limiting structure portion. The guide structure includes guide columns with conical outer surfaces that guide the connecting units during insertion. The limiting structure includes limiting portions that prevent over-insertion and crashes. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function optimally, improving reliability while maintaining manageable complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide columns with conical surfaces perform preliminary guiding action during the insertion process, aligning the connecting units before full engagement. The limiting portions are pre-positioned to prevent over-insertion before it can occur. This preliminary action prevents crashes and transient noise before they happen, enhancing service life.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the dock has a speaker, then additional functions are expanded, but transient noise is generated during docking that makes users feel uncomfortable
Solution Approach 1:
The guide columns with conical outer surfaces perform preliminary guiding action during insertion, ensuring smooth alignment and engagement of the connecting units before the docking process completes. This preliminary guiding prevents sudden impacts and collisions that would generate transient noise from the speaker, eliminating the harmful noise effect while preserving the additional audio functions.
3Reliability
If limit structure and guide structure are added to prevent crashes, then service life can be improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide structure and limiting structure are merged into an integrated connecting structure design. The guide columns with conical surfaces and the limiting portions work together as a unified system within the connector assembly. This merging reduces the number of separate components and simplifies manufacturing while providing both guiding and limiting functions to prevent crashes and extend service life.
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 connector system effectively prevents crashes and transient noise during docking, enhancing the service life of devices and user experience by ensuring secure, noise-free connections.
Implementation Method 1
A connector (100) includes a first connecting unit (110), a supporting member (120), a second connecting unit (130) and a connecting structure (140). The first connecting unit (110) includes two first magnetic bodies (111). The second connecting unit (130) includes two second magnetic bodies (131).
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure provides a connector and an electronic device system using the same. The connector includes a first connecting unit, a second connecting unit, a connecting structure and a supporting member. The first connecting unit includes a first body, a first magnetic body and a first conductive assembly mounted on the first body, and the first body has a first fixing portion. The second connecting unit includes a second body, a second magnetic body and a second conductive assembly mounted on the second body. The supporting member includes a supporting body, a second fixing portion and an inserted hole provided on the supporting body. The second magnetic body and the second conductive assembly is corresponding to the first magnetic body and the first conductive assembly respectively. The electronic device system has the functions of anti-collision and noise reduction.