Luminous Ball Wireless Activation and Battery Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional luminous balls for sports lack remote activation capabilities and have altered appearances and textures due to battery replacement methods, differing from regular balls.
Innovation Solution
A luminous ball design featuring a light-transmissive sphere and cover with a wireless transmitter-receiver unit, allowing remote activation via infrared or RFID signals, and a pressure-dispersive structure for impact resistance, maintaining the appearance and feel of regular balls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a battery-sized cut is made on the covering for easy battery replacement, then battery replacement ease is improved, but the appearance and texture of the ball are altered, making it greatly different from regular baseballs or softballs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a flexible cover made of fabric material that can be easily rolled up and removed, allowing battery replacement without permanent cuts or alterations to the ball's appearance. The cover acts as a removable shell that protects the internal components while maintaining the ball's regular appearance when in place.
2Ease of operation
If the structure of the luminous ball is largely changed for replacement of batteries, then battery replacement capability is improved, but the characteristics and specifications of the ball are altered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the ball into distinct segments: a removable cover, a middle layer with battery compartment, and an inner core. This segmentation allows the cover to be easily removed for battery replacement while the inner core and middle layer remain intact, preserving the ball's structural characteristics and specifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible fabric cover serves as a removable shell that provides access to the battery compartment without requiring structural modifications to the ball itself, maintaining the integrity of the ball's characteristics while enabling easy battery replacement.
3Device complexity
If conventional luminous balls are designed without remote activation capability, then device complexity is reduced, but functionality and user convenience are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates a wireless transmitter-receiver unit that enables the ball to respond to remote control signals, allowing it to function both as a conventional ball and as a remotely controllable luminous device. This multi-functionality is achieved by integrating the wireless control system within the existing ball structure without compromising its basic characteristics.
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
Enables remote start and control of the luminous ball, preserving its appearance and functionality similar to regular balls, while providing enhanced impact resistance and efficient battery management.
Implementation Method 1
the activation signal is an infrared signal emitted from a remote control or a mobile phone
Implementation Method 2
light emitted by the light-emitting unit penetrate the sphere and the cover and are visible through the at least one seam and the plurality of seam apertures
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AI summary
A luminous ball with remote activation capability includes a sphere, a cover and a light-emitting device. The cover wraps an external circumferential surface of the sphere and is made of a light-transmissive material. At least one seam is formed on the cover, and a plurality of seam apertures are disposed in pairs along two sides of the at least one seam. The light-emitting device is disposed in the sphere and includes a light-emitting unit, a power unit, a wireless transmitter-receiver unit and a main control unit. The main control unit is operably configured to provide an electrical connection between the light-emitting unit and the power unit after obtaining an activation signal received by the wireless transmitter-receiver unit such that light emitted by the light-emitting unit penetrates the sphere and the cover and is visible through the at least one seam and the plurality of seam apertures.