Portable Multimedia Player HDMI Connector Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional multimedia players require adapter cables to connect to display devices, leading to inconvenience and aesthetic issues due to tangling.

Innovation Solution

A portable multimedia player design that directly connects a male HDMI connector to a female HDMI connector on an external display device, eliminating the need for adapter cables and incorporating a remote control cover board with a latched cap to prevent detachment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a female HDMI connector is disposed on the multimedia player and an adapter cable is used to connect to the display device, then the player can connect to external displays, but the connection becomes inconvenient and the appearance is affected by cable tangling

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconnectivity capabilityVSAvoidconnection convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the traditional connector arrangement by placing a male HDMI connector directly on the multimedia player instead of a female connector requiring an adapter cable. This inversion eliminates the need for separate adapter cables and directly achieves male-to-female connection with display devices, resolving the contradiction between connectivity capability and connection convenience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts and removes the adapter cable component from the connection system. By integrating the male HDMI connector directly into the player housing, the solution eliminates the separate adapter cable that caused tangling and inconvenience, while maintaining full HDMI connectivity capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Adaptability or versatility

If adapter cables are used to connect the multimedia player to display devices, then connectivity is achieved, but the whole appearance of the player is affected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay connectivityVSAvoidappearance quality

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the external adapter cable from the system by integrating the male HDMI connector directly into the player. This extraction eliminates the visible cable and adapter components that marred the appearance, while preserving the essential display connectivity function

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the connector function directly into the player housing by integrating the male HDMI connector. This consolidation combines what were previously separate components (player and adapter cable) into a unified design, improving appearance while maintaining connectivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8711571B2Portable multimedia player

Publication Date: 2014.04.29 SHENZHEN LONGSYS ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to the field of players, and provides a portable multimedia player includes a housing; an integrated circuit module received in the housing for playing multimedia; a storage device interface electrically connected to the integrated circuit module, and configured to connect to an external storage device; and a male HDMI connector electrically connected to the integrated circuit module, configured to be connected to a female HDMI of an external display device. The multimedia function of the external display device is expanded by connecting the male HDMI 11 to the female HDMI of the external display device. The portable multimedia player is connected to the display device without any corresponding interface cable, such that it affords convenient using to users and beautiful appearance.