Rotatable Speaker Housing for Adjustable Orientation and Protected Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic products, such as home speakers and vehicle-mounted speakers, are constrained by fixed configurations, leading to suboptimal installation orientations and inadequate protection, resulting in poor user experience and exposure.

Innovation Solution

The electronic product features a rotatable product body within a mounting cavity, driven by a mechanism including transmission wheels and a driving member, allowing optimal orientation and storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic product is configured in a fixed manner, then the installation orientation is fixed, but the user experience is poor and the product cannot be optimally directed towards the user

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation orientation adaptabilityVSAvoidproduct structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The product body is designed to be rotatable within the mounting cavity, transforming from a static fixed configuration to a dynamic adjustable configuration. This allows the product to change its orientation and direction according to different usage scenarios, resolving the contradiction between fixed installation and adaptable orientation by introducing rotational movement capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the electronic product is completely exposed, then the accessibility is improved, but the protection is inadequate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct accessibilityVSAvoidproduct exposure risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The product body can dynamically switch between exposed and retracted states through rotation. When needed, it extends outward for accessibility; when not in use, it rotates back into the mounting cavity for protection. This dynamic positioning resolves the contradiction between accessibility and protection by providing temporal separation of these requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The product body is nested within the mounting cavity when not in use, with the cavity serving as a protective housing. This nesting arrangement allows the product to be fully protected during storage while still enabling full exposure when rotated outward for operation, resolving the contradiction between constant exposure and constant protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the product body is made rotatable, then the user experience is enhanced and protection is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveorientation adjustment capabilityVSAvoidrotation mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A rotation mechanism is introduced that allows the product body to rotate within the mounting cavity. This dynamic capability enables the product to adjust its orientation for optimal user interaction and to retract for protection, directly addressing the adaptability requirement while accepting the necessary increase in structural complexity as a trade-off for the enhanced functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP4701222A1Electronic product
Publication Date: 2026.02.25 WEIFANG GOERDYNA TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic product is disclosed in the present disclosure, which includes a mounting carrier and an electronic product. The mounting carrier is provided with a mounting cavity, and is further provided with a mounting opening in communication with the mounting cavity; and the product body is disposed within the mounting cavity and configured to rotate such that at least a portion thereof extends out of the mounting opening. The technical solution of the present disclosure may improve the use experience of the electronic product and realize the storage and protection of the electronic product.