Retractable Leg Mechanism for Autonomous Mobile Device Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile devices lack autonomous mobility, orientation, and user and environmental awareness, leading to missed opportunities and loss of valuable time in critical situations, as users must constantly check their devices for notifications and rely on wearable devices for updates, which are cumbersome and battery-intensive.
Innovation Solution
The AMORPM mechanism employs automatically retractable motorized telescopic legs, sensors, and cameras to provide autonomous mobility, orientation, and interaction with the environment, utilizing existing mobile device components to enhance user interaction through real-time sensing and adaptive alerting, allowing the device to proactively alert users based on their context and surroundings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mobile devices remain stationary without autonomous mobility mechanisms, then device simplicity and manufacturing cost are maintained, but environmental awareness and user interaction capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic mobility by equipping the mobile device with retractable legs that can extend and retract automatically. The legs include motorized sections that enable the device to move autonomously across surfaces, transforming the device from a static to a dynamic system that can actively seek users and environmental stimuli rather than remaining fixed in one position.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device is segmented into multiple functional modules including the main body, retractable leg assemblies with motorized sections, sensor systems, and communication components. This segmentation allows each module to be independently controlled and optimized, enabling complex autonomous behaviors while maintaining manageable system architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If mobile devices lack autonomous orientation and rotation capabilities, then device simplicity is maintained, but environmental exposure and sensing capability in all directions are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic orientation control through the motorized leg sections that can independently adjust their angles and positions. This enables the device to rotate and reorient itself autonomously to face different directions, maximizing environmental exposure and sensing capability without requiring separate rotation mechanisms.
3Productivity
If alerting systems stop alerting after a particular time regardless of user presence, then energy consumption is reduced, but valuable time in critical situations is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous feedback-based alerting where sensors constantly monitor user presence and device proximity. The alerting system receives feedback from sensor data and adjusts its behavior accordingly, maintaining persistent alerts when users are nearby but unavailable, and automatically stopping when users are actively engaged with the device, thereby optimizing both energy consumption and response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device autonomously determines when to alert and when to stop alerting based on sensor-detected user presence and interaction states. The device serves itself by making intelligent decisions about notification persistence without requiring manual user configuration, automatically adapting to user availability in real-time.
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AI summary
Autonomous Mobility, Orientation and Rotation Providing Mechanism for Mobile Devices (AMORPM) provides enhanced environmental exposure for mobile device in sensing, reacting, alerting and proactively interacting with environmental users and objects according to scenarios and critical situations. AMORPM comprise of sensor system for sensing the environment is all possible direction with operating modes and usage scenarios. Processing unit computes the control signal for AMORPM mechanism by comparing the sensor system parameters with correlation table parameters in a active adaptive closed loop manner. Correlation table parameters are designed based on predetermined and tested real world scenarios with the actual real world scenarios and parameters and are utilized to compare and compute the control signal. The AMORPM mechanism utilizes an automatically retractable motorized section telescopic legs that acts according to the control signal from the processing unit to change the mobility, orientation, rotation and footing for the optimized operation and user interaction of the mobile devices. Other aspect of AMORPM provides optimum position, orientation, rotation and footing for optimum wireless energy transfer.