Swimming Goggles Modular Lens Frame Assembly
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional swimming goggles have a symmetric structure and unitary type, which fail to meet the growing demand for personalized options such as different lens degrees, polarizing coefficients, and frame colors, leading to inadequate comfort and water resistance.
Innovation Solution
The design includes a first lens frame, a second lens frame, and a connection element with specific components like a lens portion, protective pad, and frame portion, allowing for customizable assembly and disassembly, with features like positioning flanges, embedding grooves, and a buffer device for comfort and flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional swimming goggles use a symmetric structure and unitary type, then manufacturing is simple, but adaptability and versatility are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The swimming goggles are divided into multiple independent modules: left lens frame, right lens frame, connection element, and head strap. Each module can be independently selected and assembled, enabling personalized customization while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized connection interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection element serves multiple functions: it connects the left and right lens frames, provides positioning through protrusions and grooves, and enables easy assembly and disassembly. This multi-functional design increases adaptability without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If swimming goggles allow free match of lens frames for different colors and degrees of myopia, then adaptability improves, but assembly and disassembly complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lens frame assembly is segmented into separable components (lens frames and connection element) with standardized connection interfaces. This allows users to easily assemble and disassemble different lens frame combinations without complex procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection element incorporates self-aligning features with positioning protrusions that automatically guide the lens frames into correct positions during assembly, eliminating the need for precise manual alignment and simplifying the user operation.
3Ease of operation
If swimming goggles use a modular design with connection elements, then ease of assembly and disassembly improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The connection element integrates multiple functions into a single component: it serves as the connector between lens frames, incorporates positioning features through protrusions and grooves, and provides structural support. This merging reduces the number of separate components needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection element performs multiple functions simultaneously: mechanical connection, positioning alignment, and structural support. This multi-functionality compensates for the added complexity by consolidating features that would otherwise require separate components.
4Ease of operation
If swimming goggles are designed to fit the outline of temple, then wearing comfort improves, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The frame portion incorporates a soft frame foot specifically at the temple contact area to provide comfort, while other areas use harder materials for structural integrity. This localized differentiation addresses comfort requirements without compromising overall manufacturing feasibility.
Data Source
AI summary
Swimming goggles in accordance with the present invention comprises a first lens frame, a second lens frame, and a connection element, characterized in that: each of the first lens frame and the second lens frame is composed of a lens portion, a protective pad, and a frame portion. The lens portion comprises a lens, a peripheral surface, a circular groove, a positioning flange, and an embedding groove. The protective pad comprises a circular body, a face contact circumference, and a circular lip. The frame portion comprises a hard frame body and a soft frame foot. Therefore, the swimming goggles provide a wearer to select the first and second lens frames by free match for favorite colors and suitable degrees of myopia, as being a customized assembly, and provide a fit to a temple of an outline of the wearer for wearing comfort, water resistance reduction, and waterproof.