Soft Doll Audio Frame Structure for Huggable Emotional Comfort

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional picture frames with recording functions are rigid and impersonal, failing to provide the necessary tactile comfort and emotional support during separations, as they cannot be comfortably hugged or traveled with without risk of breaking.

Innovation Solution

A huggable picture frame in the form of a soft, human-shaped doll with an integrated audio playback and recording unit, featuring remote activation buttons and a power supply concealed within cushioning, allowing for comfortable hugging and easy travel while providing emotional reassurance through tactile and audio elements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If a picture frame is made rigid to protect the photograph and recording unit, then the structural strength is improved, but the tactile comfort and huggability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidtactile comfort

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies this principle by enclosing the rigid picture frame, photograph, and recording unit within a flexible outer shell made of soft material. This flexible shell allows the device to be compressed and hugged while protecting the internal rigid components from damage, resolving the contradiction between structural strength and tactile comfort.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

2Adaptability or versatility

If the audio recording unit is placed inside the doll body, then the emotional connection is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveemotional connectionVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies this principle by nesting the audio recording unit, power supply, and other electronic components within compartments inside the doll's body. This nesting approach allows the device to provide emotional connection through physical contact while organizing complex components in a space-efficient manner within the limited doll volume.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Reliability

If cushioning is added to protect the recording unit, then the reliability is improved, but the volume increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovereliabilityVSAvoidvolume

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses thin flexible cushioning layers that provide adequate protection for the recording unit while minimizing volume increase. The flexible shell design allows for integrated cushioning that protects internal components without significantly increasing the overall doll size, maintaining portability and huggability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS9149729B2Doll with recording function

Publication Date: 2015.10.06 STORCH AUDREY

AI summary

Embodiments of the invention relate to a huggable or soft sculpture doll with an audio playback and recording unit. The shape of a doll may be a human or animal shape in a soft sculpture, or the like. The audio playback and recording unit may be activated by at least one remote button. The audio playback and recording unit may contain a microphone or other audio input device and a speaker or other audio output device. The audio playback and recording unit and power supply may be enclosed within the soft sculpture with sufficient cushioning that the presence of such relatively hard objects is not easily felt while the soft sculpture is hugged or squeezed.