Removable Mixer Speaker Box With Secure Recessed Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional speaker apparatus with integrated amplifiers and mixers are not user-friendly due to their fixed installation, limiting usability and portability, as users must remain near the device to adjust settings and cannot easily carry them for performances or events.

Innovation Solution

A speaker apparatus with a recessed section in the speaker box body that allows for the removable and secure storage of a circuit unit, such as a mixer and amplifier, using a retention structure with engaging and locking mechanisms, enabling the circuit unit to be detached for use near the player and easily stored within the speaker box for carrying.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the circuit unit is fixedly incorporated in the speaker box, then the speaker apparatus has a compact integrated structure, but the usability and portability are limited because users must stay near the device to adjust settings

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoidintegration structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The speaker apparatus is divided into separable components: the speaker box and the circuit unit. The circuit unit can be detached from the speaker box, allowing users to operate the circuit unit independently at a distance while maintaining the option for integrated storage and transport.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If the circuit unit is fixedly incorporated in the speaker box, then the integrated structure is maintained, but the portability is poor because the devices cannot be easily carried into and out of event sites

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveportabilityVSAvoidintegration structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The speaker apparatus is divided into separable components: the speaker box and the circuit unit. The circuit unit can be detached from the speaker box, allowing users to operate the circuit unit independently at a distance while maintaining the option for integrated storage and transport.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If the circuit unit is removably accommodated in the speaker box, then the usability and portability are improved, but the retention structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoidretention structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The retention structure provides dynamic functionality, allowing the circuit unit to be easily inserted into and removed from the speaker box. The retention mechanism maintains secure holding during normal use while enabling simple detachment when needed, adapting to different operational requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20060060416A1Circuit-unit-combined speaker apparatus
Publication Date: 2006.03.23 YAMAHA CORP
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AI summary

Recessed section is formed in the rear surface of a speaker box body with a speaker mounted to the inner front surface of the body box. Circuit unit, such as a mixer, including operators is removably accommodated in the recessed section. There is also provided a retention structure for retaining the accommodated circuit unit in the recessed section. When the speaker is to be used, for example, the circuit unit can be removed from the speaker box body and placed near a human player, so that the human player is allowed to, for example, readily operate the operators of the circuit unit. The recessed section may be covered with a lid, in which case speaker-related accessories can be stored in the recessed section.