Headset Microphone Boom with Name Tag Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing headset systems lack personalization options, leading to confusion when multiple users share headsets, and the microphone boom often touches the cheek, causing unnecessary noise.
Innovation Solution
A headset with a microphone boom arm featuring two opposed arms and a name tag display between them, allowing users to attach personal marks and adjust the boom for optimal positioning without cheek contact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a microphone boom arm is extended towards the user's mouth, then the microphone captures speech better, but the boom may touch the user's cheek causing unnecessary noise
Solution Approach 1:
The boom arm is designed with adjustable positioning capabilities, allowing it to be dynamically repositioned to achieve optimal speech capture while avoiding contact with the user's cheek. The adjustability enables the system to adapt to different user anatomies and preferences.
2Ease of manufacture
If headsets are made identical for all users, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but users cannot easily identify their own headset leading to confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The boom arm incorporates a customizable name tag display at a specific location, allowing personalization of an otherwise identical headset. This localized customization feature enables users to identify their own headset without requiring different headset designs, thus maintaining manufacturing efficiency while solving the identification problem.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a name tag display is added to the boom arm, then headset personalization is enabled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The name tag display is designed as an integrated component of the boom arm structure that serves both as a structural element and a personalization interface. The display can accommodate various types of identification (names, colors, patterns) through a single unified mechanism, avoiding the need for multiple separate personalization systems.
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AI summary
A headset having a loudspeaker housing and a microphone which are interconnected by a microphone boom arm that includes two opposed spaced apart arm parts, and wherein a name tag display is seatable between the arm parts and retaining tongue and grove pairs are provided at the arms and/or at the name tag display.