Modular Eyewear Temple Housing for Embedded Battery Charging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional eyeglasses lack the ability to easily incorporate and modify electrical components, as they are often compact and lightweight, making it difficult to integrate larger electrical components and maintain aesthetic design principles.
Innovation Solution
The integration of swappable temple portions with embedded or attachable electrical components, allowing for the addition of functionalities such as battery, wireless communication, GPS, and sensors, without compromising the design, through a system where different rearward and forward portions can be swapped or extended to facilitate electrical component placement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional eyeglasses are kept compact and lightweight, then aesthetic design and comfort are maintained, but the ability to incorporate electrical components is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The temple is divided into multiple separable portions (first temple portion and second temple portion) that can be independently attached or detached. This segmentation allows electrical components to be integrated into specific portions without requiring the entire eyeglass structure to be redesigned, enabling component incorporation while maintaining the lightweight nature of individual parts.
Solution Approach 2:
The temple portions are designed to be dynamically reconfigurable through attachment and detachment mechanisms. Users can swap between different temple portions with varying electrical component configurations, allowing the eyeglasses to adapt their functionality and weight based on specific needs while maintaining aesthetic design principles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If electrical components are integrated into eyeglasses, then functionality is enhanced, but design principles and aesthetics are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the temple into separate attachable portions, electrical components can be confined to specific segments rather than being distributed throughout the entire eyeglass structure. This allows the main frame and lenses to maintain their aesthetic design while electrical functionality is concentrated in removable temple portions that can be designed to complement rather than compromise the overall appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized attachment mechanism allows a single temple portion design to serve multiple functions - providing structural support, housing electrical components, and offering aesthetic value. Different temple portions can be swapped to provide various electrical functionalities (GPS, wireless communication, sensors) while maintaining a consistent aesthetic design language across all configurations.
3Ease of operation
If fixed electrical components are embedded in eyeglasses, then functionality is provided, but modification and upgrading are difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The dynamic attachment and detachment system enables users to easily modify their eyeglasses by swapping temple portions. Electrical components are not permanently embedded but rather integrated into removable portions that can be exchanged based on changing needs, technological updates, or aesthetic preferences, thereby providing both ease of operation and high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
When temple portions with electrical components need to be updated or replaced, the old portions can be detached and discarded or stored, while new portions with updated components are attached. This allows for easy upgrading of electrical functionality without requiring disposal of the entire eyeglass frame, maintaining usability while enabling continuous adaptation.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. The electrical components can be partially or completely internal to eyewear. The electrical components can also be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. Apparatus for presenting after-market electrical components are also disclosed.