Flexible Smart Ring With Magnetic Break-Away Charging Structure
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Smart ring technologies face challenges such as the need for removal for charging, poor fit, limited interactivity, and restricted functionality, along with high energy consumption.
Innovation Solution
The development of a smart ring design featuring a body with flexible material, removable magnetic break-away portions, and integrated components like batteries, charging units, processors, sensors, and communication units, allowing for improved charging methods, increased functionality, and enhanced user interaction while maintaining low energy consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If smart ring components are integrated into a single rigid structure, then manufacturing is simpler, but fit and comfort are poor
Solution Approach 1:
The smart ring is divided into multiple segments including a first part, a second part, and break-away portions. These segments can be manufactured separately using standard processes like injection molding, then assembled together. This segmentation allows each part to be optimized independently while maintaining manufacturing efficiency, directly resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and fit quality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If smart ring battery capacity is increased, then functionality and interactivity are improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart ring incorporates a dynamic power management system that adjusts operational modes based on usage patterns. The processor can switch between high-performance and low-power states, sensors can be activated only when needed, and communication can be optimized for energy efficiency. This dynamic approach enables rich functionality when required while maintaining low baseline energy consumption, resolving the contradiction between functionality and energy use.
3Ease of operation
If smart ring components are made removable for charging, then charging flexibility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart ring is designed with separable components including a first part and a second part that can be detached from each other. The break-away portions provide natural separation points that allow the ring to be opened and components accessed without requiring complex disassembly mechanisms. This segmentation enables charging flexibility while keeping the connection and separation mechanisms simple, directly addressing the contradiction between charging flexibility and device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables convenient charging without removal, improved fit through customizable designs, increased interactivity, and expanded functionality while maintaining low energy usage, addressing the limitations of existing smart ring technologies.
Implementation Method 1
providing a pair of magnetic break-away portions separate from the first part and the second part and coupling the pair of magnetic break-away portions to one or more of the first body part and the second body part, such that the pair of magnetic break-away portions couple the second part of the body to the first part of the body
Data Source
AI summary
A smart ring includes a body including flexible material, a first part, a second part removably connected to the first part, and at least one pair of break-away portions disposed within the body separate from the first part and the second part. One or more of a battery, a charging unit, a processor unit, a user input unit, a communication unit, a memory unit, at least one sensor unit, an output unit or a user input unit is disposed in or on one of the first part and the second part. Each of the break-away portions of the pair of break-away portions is removable from the other break-away portion upon movement of one break-away portion in a direction away from the other break-away portion.