Modular Eyeglass Wearable with Interchangeable Temple Electrical Units
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional eyeglass-type wearable devices face challenges in providing a versatile and balanced design with integrated imaging functionality, as they often compromise on weight distribution and design aesthetics due to the placement of heavy electrical units on the front part, limiting their application and user comfort.
Innovation Solution
The eyeglass-type wearable device design incorporates a modular structure with a front part equipped with an imaging device and interchangeable temple parts, each containing electrical units such as display devices and batteries, allowing for flexible configuration and distribution of components to optimize weight balance and functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If heavy electrical units are integrated into the front part to provide imaging functionality, then the device achieves integrated imaging capability, but the weight distribution becomes unbalanced and user comfort deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into modular components: a front part containing the imaging device and temple parts containing electrical units such as display devices and batteries. This segmentation allows the heavy electrical components to be distributed away from the front part, improving weight balance while maintaining integrated imaging functionality through the connection between the front part and temple parts.
2Weight of moving object
If electrical units are placed in the temple parts, then weight balance is improved, but the device complexity increases due to modular structure
Solution Approach 1:
The temple parts are designed with multi-functionality, containing both structural support functions and electrical unit functions (display devices, batteries). This universal design allows the modular structure to achieve weight balance while the standardized interfaces and integrated electrical units help manage the complexity, making the modular system more manageable and versatile.
3Weight of moving object
If the front part is made lighter by removing electrical units, then user comfort is improved, but the imaging capability is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The electrical units (display devices, batteries) are extracted from the front part and placed in the temple parts. This extraction successfully reduces the front part weight for improved comfort, while the imaging capability is preserved through the imaging device in the front part connected to the electrical units in the temple parts, which provide power and display functions.
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AI summary
An eyeglass-type wearable device includes a first temple part positioned along one temporal region of a user, a second temple part positioned along the other temporal region of the user, and a front part positioned in front of the face of the user, when the eyeglass-type wearable device is worn by the user. The front part includes an electrical unit including an imaging device, and a first and second connection sections to which the first and the second temple parts can be connected, and at least one of the first and the second temple parts includes a temple-side electrical unit. The first and second temple parts can be attached to and removed from the first and second connection sections of the front part. Information about an image captured by the imaging device included in the front part is transmitted from the front part to the temple-side electrical unit.