Wireless Cooler Box Audio Housing Against Water and Dust
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing leisure and recreational apparatus with built-in sound systems, such as ice and cooler boxes, often face issues with socket damage and contamination from environmental factors like water and dust, leading to disruptions in wireless connectivity and audio output.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a receiver and output device, such as speakers, within a volumetric body that can contain articles or seal gases/liquids, protecting them from the environment by mounting them behind or within walls, ensuring sealed and insulated communication functions, reducing exposure to water, dust, and impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sockets are provided for connecting portable electronic devices to the cooler box, then audio output functionality is enabled, but the sockets become inactive, fouled or damaged by weather, water, dust, dirt, sand, debris and impact
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the physical socket connection interface from the cooler box and replaces it with a wireless communication system. The receiver unit within the cooler box communicates wirelessly with portable electronic devices, eliminating the need for physical sockets that are susceptible to environmental damage, fouling, and impact.
2Ease of operation
If sockets are exposed on the cooler box surface, then device connection is enabled, but the sockets break up and introduce discontinuity to the surface
Solution Approach 1:
The physical socket interfaces are completely removed from the cooler box surface. Instead, wireless communication antennas and receivers are integrated within the cooler box housing, allowing device connections without any external socket openings that would disrupt the surface continuity.
3Ease of operation
If the receiver is exposed for ease of access, then wireless connection setup is simplified, but the receiver becomes vulnerable to environmental damage and contamination
Solution Approach 1:
The receiver unit is nested within the cooler box housing structure, positioned in a protected internal location. The receiver is accessible through the housing but shielded from direct environmental exposure, combining protection with operational accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The receiver is housed within protective enclosures and sealed compartments within the cooler box structure, using protective barriers that shield the sensitive electronic components from water, dust, and environmental contaminants while allowing the device to function.
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AI summary
A leisure apparatus comprises a body having a volume that is able to contain articles for storage therein and for removal therefrom, or that defines an internal space that is able to seal therein a gas, liquid or solid. An output device is arranged externally at the body. A receiver is located behind a wall of the body to be separated from articles stored in and removed from the body, or is located and sealed within the internal space of the body. The receiver is adapted for receiving an electronic signal transmitted wirelessly from a proximate device and for communicating that signal to the output device.