Modular Electronic Device with Detachable Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices are integrated structures, requiring replacement of the entire device when a component needs upgrading or replacement, leading to high hardware costs and cumbersome operations.
Innovation Solution
The electronic device is designed with modular components, allowing for detachable and electrical connections between modules, enabling users to replace individual modules without replacing the entire device, with features like groove slide rails and elastic pieces for easy assembly and disassembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If electronic devices use integrated structures, then device stability and structural strength are improved, but device complexity increases and ease of repair deteriorates when component upgrading is needed
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device is divided into multiple detachable modules, each containing specific components (e.g., camera module, battery module, mainboard module). This segmentation allows individual modules to be replaced independently without affecting the entire device, resolving the contradiction between structural integration and ease of repair.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection between modules uses detachable connectors that can be dynamically connected and disconnected. This dynamic connection mechanism enables easy module replacement while maintaining stable connections during operation, balancing device stability with repairability.
2Manufacturing precision
If electronic devices use integrated structures, then manufacturing precision is improved, but adaptability deteriorates when component upgrading is needed
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the device into standardized modules with precise connection interfaces, the patent achieves both manufacturing precision through standardized production and adaptability through flexible module combination and replacement.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular design with standardized connectors allows modules to serve multiple functions - they can be replaced, upgraded, or reconfigured based on user needs, providing universal adaptability while maintaining precise manufacturing standards for each module.
3Ease of operation
If electronic devices allow component replacement, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses dynamic detachable connectors that simplify the replacement operation to basic connect/disconnect actions, making ease of operation achievable without significantly increasing structural complexity beyond the connector mechanisms.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes at least two modules, each module includes at least one component; two adjacent modules of the at least two modules are detachably connected, and the two adjacent modules are electrically connected; the housings of the at least two modules are connected to form the housing of the electronic device; in the at least two modules, the first module includes a mainboard and the second module includes a battery. When any module in the electronic device needs to be updated, the module only needs to be detached from the electronic device, and then the replacement of the module is connected to other modules, thereby forming a new electronic device. There is no need to replace the entire electronic device, and the hardware cost is reduced.