Foldable Temple Goggles with Rotatable Hinges for Secure Wearing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional automatic shading goggles are inconvenient to wear and carry due to their fixed headband design, which limits portability and usability, especially when needing to connect with safety helmets or other fasteners.

Innovation Solution

The goggles feature foldable temples with a control module, a detachable skirt member for face contact, and adjustable earpieces or fixing members, allowing for improved wearability and portability by rotating the temples and selectively fastening components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the goggles are fixed to the head through a band connected to both left and right sides, then the goggles can be securely worn, but it is inconvenient for workers to wear and carry them

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecure wearingVSAvoidconvenience of wearing and carrying

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The temple is divided into multiple segments: hinge part, earpiece, and fixing member. These segments can be separated and recombined, allowing the goggles to be securely worn when assembled and easily carried when disassembled, resolving the contradiction between secure wearing and carrying convenience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The temple incorporates a rotatable hinge mechanism that allows dynamic adjustment between extended (wearing) and folded (carrying) positions. This dynamic structure enables the goggles to adapt between secure wearing mode and compact carrying mode, solving the contradiction between reliability and ease of operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If the goggles are fixed through a rigid band structure, then structural stability is maintained, but portability is reduced as it cannot be carried in pockets

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidportability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The rotatable hinge mechanism transforms the rigid band structure into a dynamic structure that can fold compactly. When folded, the temple fits within pocket spaces while maintaining structural integrity through the hinge connection, resolving the contradiction between structural stability and reduced volume for portability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The earpiece and fixing member are nested within the hinge part when folded, creating a compact configuration that can be carried in pockets. The nesting mechanism maintains structural stability through precise geometric fitting while minimizing external volume

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Ease of manufacture

If the goggles have a fixed temple structure, then manufacturing is simpler, but adaptability to connect with safety helmets or other fasteners is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidconnectability with helmets or fasteners

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The temple is segmented into standardized components (hinge part, earpiece, fixing member) with standardized fastening grooves and protrusions. This segmentation maintains manufacturing simplicity through modular production while enabling adaptability to connect with various helmets and fasteners through the standardized interface

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The fixing member serves multiple functions: it can connect to earpieces for normal use, connect to safety helmets for industrial applications, or be removed entirely for portability. This multi-functionality provides adaptability to different use cases while maintaining a relatively simple manufacturing process through standardized components

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

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

This design enhances convenience in carrying and using the goggles, minimizing volume, ensuring stable operation, and preventing component separation, while allowing for easy attachment to helmets or headbands.

Implementation Method 1

a light sensing sensor detects the harmful light and outputs a driving signal

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLight detection: Photoelectric Effect

Implementation Method 2

automatic shading goggles block a harmful light generated during operation

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLight blocking: Absorption (EM radiation)

Implementation Method 3

temples rotatably connected to the left and right of the goggle frame, respectively

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHinge mechanism: Hinge

Data Source

PatentUS10828200B2Automatic shading googles

Publication Date: 2020.11.10 SERVORE

AI summary

Automatic shading goggles that can be combined with fixing members, which can fix the goggles to the face of a wearer by separating end parts of foldable temples having a control module, includes: a goggle frame having front light-shield lenses and side light-shielding lenses; a skirt member detachably coupled inside the goggle frame to be brought in contact with the face of a wearer; and temples rotatably connected to the left and right of the goggle frame, respectively, and having a control module for controlling operation of the front light-shielding lenses, wherein the temples includes hinge parts having the control module and rotatably coupled to the left and right of the skirt member and earpieces separably coupled to ends of the hinge parts to be held on ears.