Magnetic Temple Glasses and Adhesive Box

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional glasses require a belt for folding, which is inconvenient for storage, and traditional glasses boxes do not provide adequate protection or convenience for users, especially for reading glasses that are not worn frequently, leading to issues with finding and damaging the glasses.

Innovation Solution

The integration of magnetic members in the temples of the glasses, allowing them to fold and secure without a belt, and a glasses box with a sucker and magnet for easy attachment and retrieval, ensuring the glasses are securely stored and protected.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a belt is used to bind the folded temples, then the temples can be secured in place, but the storage convenience deteriorates due to the additional component

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetemple securingVSAvoidstorage convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the belt component from the glasses structure and replaces it with magnetic members integrated into the temples. The magnetic attraction between corresponding magnetic members on folded temples automatically secures them in place without requiring an external binding element, thus eliminating the storage inconvenience caused by the belt while maintaining temple securing reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical belt-binding system with a magnetic field-based securing mechanism. Magnetic members embedded in the temples generate magnetic attraction forces that automatically hold the folded temples together, substituting the manual belt-tying mechanical action with an automatic magnetic field interaction, thereby improving both convenience and reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the glasses are stored in a conventional glasses box, then the glasses are protected from damage, but the ease of finding and retrieving the glasses deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprotection from damageVSAvoidease of finding glasses
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates a magnetic member in the glasses frame that can interact with a magnetic indicator in the glasses box, creating a visible or detectable magnetic signal that guides the user to the location of the glasses within the box, thereby maintaining protection while improving ease of finding and retrieving the glasses

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a magnetic feedback mechanism where the magnetic member in the glasses and the magnetic indicator in the box create a detectable magnetic field interaction that provides real-time information about the glasses location, enabling the user to quickly find and retrieve the glasses without having to search through the entire box

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Strength

If the temples are made of rigid material, then the structural strength is improved, but the ease of folding and bending deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidease of folding
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different material properties to different parts of the temple structure. The main body of the temple maintains rigid material for structural strength, while specific folding regions incorporate flexible materials or structural features that enable easy bending and folding, thus achieving both structural integrity and foldability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the temple into multiple segments or sections with different mechanical properties. The rigid portions provide structural strength while the flexible portions or hinge regions facilitate easy folding, allowing the temple to maintain overall strength while enabling convenient folding operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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

The magnetic temples enable convenient storage and attachment to metallic surfaces, while the glasses box with a sucker and magnet ensures easy access and protection of the glasses, preventing damage and loss.

Implementation Method 1

the temples being provided with magnetic members in relative positions, the magnetic members engaging with each other to secure the temples in place when the temples are folded

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic attraction: Magnetism

Implementation Method 2

the glasses when not in use could be attracted on the magnet

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic attraction: Magnetism

Implementation Method 3

the sucker of the box cover is secured on a desired place

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesion: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentUS8038291B2Glasses and glasses box
Publication Date: 2011.10.18 CHEN TSUNG WEN
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AI summary

The present invention discloses glasses. The glasses include a pair of temples and a frame which is integrally formed with the temples. An inner side of the junction of each of the temples and the frame is formed with a corrugated surface. The temples are provided with magnetic members in relative positions. The magnetic members engage with each other to secure the temples in place when the temples are folded. The glasses may be attracted on a metallic board or a metallic frame for convenient storage and use. The present invention discloses a glasses box which includes a box body and a box cover. The box body and the box cover are buckled together to form an accommodating space for receiving glasses. The box cover has an outer side provided with a sucker and an inner side provided with a magnet. When in use, the glasses box provides an accommodating space for receiving glasses therein. When taking out the glasses, the sucker of the box cover could be secured on a desired place. The glasses when not in use could be attracted on the magnet. This is very convenient for specific glasses which have temples made of metallic material or magnetic members.