Mobile Terminal Sensor Integration via Earphone Aperture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mobile terminals face integration and user experience issues due to the need for additional openings on the front panel to accommodate sensors, which lowers the device's integration degree and creates a messy appearance.
Innovation Solution
Arranging sensors within existing openings such as the earphone or microphone openings, eliminating the need for extra holes on the front panel, allowing light transmission and signal emission through these openings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a separate opening is provided on the front panel for the sensor, then the sensor can receive light and emit signals, but the integration degree of the mobile terminal is lowered and the front panel appears messy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the sensor opening with the existing earphone opening on the front panel. The sensor is positioned to utilize the same opening that is already required for the earphone function, thereby combining two functional requirements into a single structural feature. This eliminates the need for a separate sensor opening, maintaining the front panel's integrated appearance while accommodating both the sensor and earphone functions through the same aperture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the sensor is arranged under a transparent opening on the touch screen, then the sensor can interact with the outside, but another hole is needed on the front panel which lowers integration degree
Solution Approach 1:
The earphone opening serves multiple functions: it accommodates the earphone receiver for audio output and simultaneously provides the necessary opening for the sensor to receive light and emit signals. This multi-functional design allows the same structural feature to fulfill both audio and sensing requirements, reducing the total number of openings needed on the front panel while maintaining full sensor functionality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple openings are provided on the front panel for different functions, then each function can be accommodated, but the user experience is degraded due to messy appearance
Solution Approach 1:
By combining the sensor opening requirement with the existing earphone opening, the patent reduces the visual clutter on the front panel. The merged opening maintains the clean aesthetic appearance that users expect while still providing all necessary functions including sensor operation and earphone output. This design choice prioritizes user experience by minimizing the number of visible openings without compromising functional versatility.
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 approach enhances the integration degree of the mobile terminal by reducing the number of openings on the front panel, maintaining a clean appearance and improving user experience.
Implementation Method 1
the sensor may not only receive a light from outside but also emit a signal to outside
Implementation Method 2
A distance sensor emits a light pulse outwardly and calculates a distance from the distance sensor to an object according to a time duration from the light pulse being emitted to being reflected by the object
Implementation Method 3
The sensor includes a sensor for sensing a light, a location or a distance... a photoelectric sensor
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a mobile terminal. The present application provides a sensor inside either or both of a receiver opening and a microphone opening, rather than providing an additional opening on the front panel of a device for installing the sensors, such that light is transmitted to the sensor via the receiver opening and/or the microphone opening, and the sensor transmits a signal via the receiver opening and/or the microphone opening; the receiver opening and/or the microphone opening are openings currently available on the front panel of the device, without the need of proving additional openings on the front panel of the device, reducing the number of the openings on the front panel of the device to make a mobile device more integrated, and provide a better user experience due to an uncluttered surface of the front panel of the device.