Electronic Hinge for Spectacle Frame Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic spectacle frames face challenges in integrating a growing number of electronic components while maintaining compactness and ensuring connection between different frame elements.
Innovation Solution
A hinge system comprising rotatable parts with integrated electronic support and wire core components, allowing for the embedding of electronic elements within the spectacle frame, including sensors and communication devices, while providing structural reinforcement and heat dissipation, and enabling connection between frame elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If electronic components are integrated into the spectacle frame, then the functionality of the spectacle frame is improved, but the complexity of the device structure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into the hinge structure: mechanical connection between frame parts, support for electronic components, wire routing protection, and reinforcement support. This integration reduces overall device complexity while maintaining enhanced functionality through the unified hinge assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The hinge is designed as a multi-functional component that serves both mechanical connection purposes and electronic component integration. It provides structural support, houses electronic components, routes wires, and reinforces frame elements, making a single component perform multiple roles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple electronic components are integrated into the spectacle frame, then the versatility of the spectacle frame is improved, but the volume of the spectacle frame increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds electronic components within the hinge structure itself, nesting them inside the hinge body or on its surfaces. This nesting approach allows multiple electronic components to occupy the same spatial envelope as the hinge, preventing increase in overall frame volume while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The hinge provides three-dimensional support structures and mounting surfaces that utilize vertical and lateral dimensions rather than expanding the horizontal footprint. Electronic components are arranged in layers and at different heights, efficiently using available space without increasing overall frame volume.
3Adaptability or versatility
If electronic components are embedded in the spectacle frame, then the functionality is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hinge is designed with pre-formed cavities, channels, and mounting structures that are created during hinge manufacturing. Wire routing paths and electronic component mounting locations are prepared in advance, simplifying subsequent assembly operations and reducing manufacturing complexity despite enhanced functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent integrates wire routing channels and electronic component housings into the hinge manufacturing process itself, rather than adding separate components. This merging of functions into a single manufacturing process reduces overall manufacturing complexity while achieving multiple functional goals.
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AI summary
A hinge (20) comprising a first hinge part (40) and a second hinge part (50) configured to be attached respectively to a first spectacle frame element and a second spectacle frame element, the first hinge part (40) being rotatable relative to the second hinge part (50), the first hinge part (40) comprising a first electronic support part (42) supporting at least a first electronic component (44) and a first wire core part extending from the first electronic support part (42) through at least one of the first or second spectacle frame element, the first electronic support part (42) and the first wire core part are embodied in the first hinge part (40).