Rotatable Clip Frame with Locking Wire for Wearable Modules
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable illumination devices often restrict the user's hands, as they require manual operation and do not easily integrate with various modules like communication or imaging devices, limiting their versatility and functionality.
Innovation Solution
A frame with a rotatable clip and mount system that accommodates pivotable modules, such as illumination, communication, or guidance modules, allowing 360-degree rotation and secure attachment to clothing or objects, with a gate mechanism for easy webbing integration and module power supply, enabling hands-free operation and module versatility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the illumination device is secured to a strap or helmet, then the device can be worn hands-free, but the user's hands are still restricted from performing other tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The frame is designed to support multiple types of modules including illumination modules, imaging modules, communication modules, and audio modules. This multi-functional capability allows the device to serve various purposes while maintaining hands-free operation through the clip attachment mechanism.
2Device complexity
If the illumination device uses a fixed housing, then the structure is simple, but it cannot easily integrate with various modules like communication or imaging devices
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into a fixed housing and separate removable modules. The housing contains the clip mechanism and power supply, while functional components are contained in separate modules that can be attached or detached as needed, enabling versatile integration without complicating the overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame housing is designed with a universal interface that can accommodate multiple types of modules including illumination, imaging, communication, and audio modules. This allows a single simple housing structure to support diverse functional requirements through module interchangeability.
3Device complexity
If the clip is fixed in position, then the attachment structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate different wearing positions or orientations
Solution Approach 1:
The clip is designed with rotational capability, allowing it to pivot and adjust to different orientations and positions. This dynamic adjustment feature enables the clip to accommodate various wearing configurations while maintaining a relatively simple attachment structure based on a hinge or pivot mechanism.
Data Source
AI summary
A frame having a clip for securing the frame to an article of clothing or other object. The frame includes a mount for receiving a removable module and a rotatably attached clip. The clip includes an opening for accommodating sewing ribs between portions of a webbing and a gate (which may be a locking wire) moveable between an open position and a closed position at one end of the opening. In the open position, the locking wire removably engages one of a pair of elongated members defining the opening, e.g., by removably engaging that elongated member at a recess in an outside edge thereof, and does not obstruct the opening. When in the closed position, the locking wire removably engages the other of the elongated members, for example by removably engaging that other elongated member at a recess in its outside edge, and obstructs the longitudinal opening.