Sound Generating Device with Impact Sensor for Game Pieces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional game pieces lack the ability to generate sounds, which could enhance the entertainment value and interest during gameplay, unlike other products that incorporate sound modules for promotional or congratulatory purposes.
Innovation Solution
A sound generating device with a microprocessor, sound chip, capacitor, speaker, and power source, integrated into a housing assembly, that produces customizable sounds when struck against a surface, allowing for varied sound lengths and repeat playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sound modules are integrated into game pieces, then entertainment value and player interest are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functional components (sound module, impact sensor, power source, and game piece) into a single integrated device. The sound generating device merges the housing assembly with the sound generating assembly, creating a unified game piece that both stores game information and produces auditory feedback, thereby enhancing entertainment value while managing complexity through functional integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The sound generating device serves multiple functions: it acts as a game piece for gameplay, a sound generator for auditory feedback, and an impact sensor for detecting strikes. This multi-functionality allows a single device to replace what would traditionally require separate components, enhancing versatility while keeping the overall system manageable.
2Reliability
If a contact-activated sensor is added to detect strikes, then sound playback is triggered accurately, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The impact sensor automatically detects when the game piece is struck and triggers the sound module without requiring external control. The device serves itself by using the physical impact from gameplay to activate the sound function, eliminating the need for separate control mechanisms and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining reliable sound activation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If customizable sounds are implemented, then user preference and engagement are improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sound module can play different recorded sounds by changing its output parameters (different sound files, volumes, or patterns). This allows the same hardware to provide customized auditory feedback for different game situations or player preferences without requiring different physical components for each sound type, thereby maintaining ease of manufacture while achieving sound customization.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enriches the gaming experience by adding auditory feedback to game pieces, enhancing entertainment value and interest through customizable sounds that can range from animal and environmental sounds to congratulatory messages, music, and voice recordings.
Implementation Method 1
a sound generating assembly comprising a microprocessor, sound chip, capacitor, speaker and power source that are electrically interconnected
Data Source
AI summary
A sound generating device comprises top, bottom and sound generating assemblies. The sound generating assembly comprises a microprocessor, sound chip, capacitor, speaker and power source that are electrically interconnected. The sound can range from animal and/or environmental sounds, music, congratulatory messages, other types of voice recordings, bells, whistles and the like, and the length of play can be varied. When the device is struck against a hard surface, the contact in the top is depressed and interacts with a receptor on the sound generating device to communicate with the microprocessor and sound chip to generate a sound, which can persist from about one or more seconds, depending on how the sound generating device had been programmed. Repeat strikes of the sound generating device against the surface will result in a repetition of the sound.