Self-customized Glasses with Magnetic Modular Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional glasses lack the ability to be customized in terms of color, pattern, and design, failing to accommodate individual preferences and environmental conditions effectively.
Innovation Solution
Self-customized glasses with magnetically attachable components and transparent micro LED display skins, allowing users to change colors and designs instantly, and adjust lens sizes and shapes for various styles and functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If glasses components are fixed with traditional methods, then structural stability is maintained, but customization capability and ease of replacement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The glasses are divided into independent modular components (lenses, frame, temples, bridge) that can be separately assembled and disassembled. Each component contains magnetic elements that enable independent attachment and detachment, allowing users to customize and replace individual parts without affecting the entire structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Traditional mechanical fastening methods (screws, clips, adhesives) are replaced with a magnetic field-based attachment system. Magnets embedded in component interfaces provide automatic alignment and secure attachment through magnetic attraction, eliminating complex mechanical assembly mechanisms while maintaining structural stability.
2Reliability
If glasses use heavy frame structures for stability, then durability is improved, but weight increases causing discomfort
Solution Approach 1:
The magnetic attachment system replaces heavy mechanical fastening structures, clips, and screws with lightweight magnetic elements. The magnetic field provides sufficient holding force for secure attachment while adding minimal weight, enabling stable yet lightweight glasses construction.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment mechanism transitions from mechanical interlocking (requiring substantial material) to magnetic field interaction (requiring minimal material). By changing the fundamental attachment parameter from mechanical force to magnetic force, the structure achieves stability with significantly reduced weight.
3Adaptability or versatility
If glasses are designed as single-unit structures, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but customization and adaptability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The glasses are manufactured as separate modular components rather than as a single integrated unit. Each component (lenses, frame, temples, bridge) is independently manufactured with magnetic elements, then assembled through magnetic attraction. This modular approach enables customization while maintaining manufacturing efficiency through standardized magnetic interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The magnetic attachment interface serves multiple functions: structural connection, alignment guidance, and customization enablement. The same magnetic mechanism facilitates both secure attachment during normal use and easy detachment for customization, providing universal functionality across different glass configurations.
4Ease of operation
If traditional attachment methods are used, then connection strength is sufficient, but ease of operation and rapid replacement are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The magnetic attachment system replaces mechanical fasteners requiring tools or complex manipulation with a simple magnetic connection. Components attach automatically through magnetic attraction when brought close together and can be detached by pulling apart, enabling rapid replacement while maintaining secure connection during normal wear.
Solution Approach 2:
The magnetic system provides self-aligning and self-securing functionality. When components are brought near each other, magnetic attraction automatically guides them into proper alignment and secures the connection without requiring user intervention for alignment or tightening, simplifying the attachment operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to create unique designs and adapt glasses to different environments and situations, enhancing both fashion and functionality.
Implementation Method 1
the parts are disposed independently to be assembled to and disassembled from each other by magnetism, wherein magnets are respectively buried in one side portion of each lens connection head part and right and left sides of the bridge part
Implementation Method 2
transparent micro LED display skins are coated on at least one among the temples connected with the right and left lens connection head parts, the bridge part, and the lenses
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to self-customized glasses. The self-customized glasses allow a wearer to assemble essential parts of the glasses in a self-customized type, can allow the wearer to make glasses with various forms according to the wearer's taste since allowing the wearer to select colors, patterns or designs of essential parts of the glasses by applying various custom-assembly forms or micro LED display skins to the essential parts, and provide rimless glasses with feelings of rimless glasses, half-rim glasses and full-rim glasses.