Smartphone Eye Exercise Mount With Stable Screen Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing eyeball exercise apparatuses do not allow users to exercise their eyes while watching a smartphone screen, as they fail to integrate smartphone movement with eyeball exercise, limiting the range of motion to only rotating directions.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus that mounts a smartphone on a magnet attached to a balance weight, which rotates relative to a connecting shaft, enabling the smartphone to move in rotating, up-down, left-right, and oblique directions through a geared motor and pulley system, maintaining the screen state constant during circular motion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the smartphone is attached to the balance weight that rotates with the rotating arm, then the smartphone can rotate with the arm, but the screen state changes and becomes difficult to view
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into two independent rotational segments: the rotating arm that provides circular motion, and the balance weight that independently maintains horizontal orientation. This segmentation allows the smartphone to benefit from both the rotational exercise function and the stable screen display.
Solution Approach 2:
The balance weight is designed to dynamically adjust its orientation relative to the rotating arm, using gravity and friction to automatically maintain a horizontal position regardless of the arm's rotation angle. This dynamic adaptation ensures the screen remains viewable throughout the entire rotational range.
2Ease of operation
If the eyeball exercise is performed only in rotating direction, then the exercise is simple, but the exercise range is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from one-dimensional rotational exercise to three-dimensional eye movement exercise by adding translational motion along the rotating arm. Users can now exercise their eyes in multiple directions (rotation, up-down, left-right, oblique) while maintaining operational simplicity through automatic smartphone positioning.
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 users to exercise their eyes in multiple directions while watching a smartphone screen, ensuring the screen state remains unchanged, allowing for comprehensive eyeball movement in sync with the smartphone's motion.
Implementation Method 1
a magnet is mounted on a front of the balance weight, and an iron plate attached to a case of a smartphone is attached to the magnet
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an apparatus for exercising an eyeball, in which a geared motor (20) is mounted on an upper end of a column (11) of a stand (10), an output shaft (21) of the geared motor (20) is inserted into a hole (31) formed at one end of a rotating arm (30), a connecting shaft (35) is mounted on a free end of the rotating arm (30) in parallel with the output shaft (21), the connecting shaft (35) is inserted into an upper horizontal shaft hole 41 of a balance weight (40) through a bearing (50), a magnet (60) is mounted on a front of the balance weight (40), and an iron plate (76) attached to a case 75 of a smartphone (70) is attached to the magnet (60).