Head mounted electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10095037-B2
Application number	US-201615057877-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2016
Priority date	Aug 19, 2015
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

The present invention relates to a head mounted electronic device, including a headphone and a display portion. The headphone includes a C-shaped elastic belt including two coupling ends; two movable members, each being rotatably coupled to a corresponding coupling end along a first axis; and two speakers, each being rotatably coupled to a corresponding movable component along a second axis. The display portion includes a main body, configured to produce and project images outwardly; and two coupling components, coupled to two opposite ends of the main body and each being rotatably coupled to a corresponding speaker along a third axis. Each of the two speakers is configured to rotate along the first axis and the second axis defined by a corresponding movable member, respectively, when the speaker rotates along its respective third axis in response to the movement of the display portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A head mounted electronic device comprising a headphone and a display portion wherein the headphone further comprises:
a C-shaped elastic belt having two coupling ends;
two movable members, each movable member having a first end and a second end and being rotatably coupled to a corresponding coupling end of the elastic belt via the first end of the movable member, the movable member being configured to rotate with respect to the corresponding coupling end of the elastic belt along a first axis, and
two speakers, each speaker including a periphery and a body and being rotatably coupled to the second end of a corresponding movable member via the periphery of the speaker, the speaker being configured to rotate with respect to the corresponding movable member around a second axis across both the periphery and the body of the speaker, wherein the second axis and the first axis define a first angle therebetween; and
the display portion further comprises:
a main body, configured to produce and project images outwardly; and
two coupling components, coupled to two opposite ends of the main body and each being rotatably coupled to a corresponding speaker around a respective third axis, wherein the two third axes define a second angle therebetween;

wherein a folding of the display portion towards a position substantially overlapping with the elastic belt causes each of the two speakers and a corresponding movable member to which the speaker is coupled to rotate with respect to a corresponding coupling end of the elastic belt along a corresponding first axis, thereby avoiding twisting between the elastic belt and the two movable members.

2. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the speakers comprises an inner wall configured to transmit sound and an opposite outer wall, with a corresponding third axis extending from the inner wall toward the outer wall.

3. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each movable member comprises the first end rotatably coupled to the corresponding coupling end of the elastic belt along the first axis, the second end rotatably coupled to the corresponding speaker along the second axis, and a curved portion connecting the first end and the second end.

4. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein for each of the two speakers, the periphery further comprises a side wall extending from an edge of the outer wall toward the inner wall, the movable member being rotatably coupled to the side wall along the second axis.

5. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein each of the two coupling ends comprises one of a first protrusion pole and a first blind hole, the first end of each of the two movable members comprises the other of the first blind hole and the first protrusion pole, the first protrusion pole is rotatably located in the first blind hole, and the first axis is defined by the first protrusion pole or the first blind hole.

6. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein each of the two speakers comprises one of a second protrusion pole and a second hole, each of the two movable members comprises the other of the second hole and the second protrusion pole, the second protrusion pole is rotatably located in the second hole, and the second axis is defined by the second protrusion pole or the second hole.

7. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the side wall of each of the two speakers is a cylindrical wall, the third axis being a central axis of the cylindrical wall, and each of the coupling components is rotatably coupled to the side wall of a corresponding speaker along the third axis.

8. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein each of the two coupling components adjacent to a corresponding speaker comprises a second cylindrical wall coupled to the side wall of the corresponding speaker to be capable of rotating along the third axis.

9. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the third axis of each of the two speakers is substantially perpendicular to a corresponding first axis and a corresponding second axis.

10. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second angle is larger than 100 degrees and less than 170 degrees.

11. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first angle is larger than 30 degrees and less than 150 degrees.

12. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the coupling components is translatably and movably coupled to the main portion or the speaker, to be capable of moving to a first position adjacent to the main portion or the speaker and moving to a second position remote from the main portion or the speaker.

13. The head mounted electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the two movable members is translatably and movably coupled to the coupling end to be capable of moving to a first position adjacent to the elastic belt and moving to a second position remote from the elastic belt.

Assignees

• Shenzhen Royole Technologies Co Ltd
• Shenzhen Royole Technologies Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Songling
• Chen Songya
• Jiang Chao

Classifications

• H04R5/0335

  Earpiece support, e.g. headbands or neckrests (for monophonic headphones H04R1/105) · CPC title

• H04R1/1066

  Constructional aspects of the interconnection between earpiece and earpiece support (earpiece support for monophonic headphones H04R1/105; earpiece support for stereophonic headphones H04R5/0335) · CPC title

• H04R1/1008

  Earpieces of the supra-aural or circum-aural type · CPC title

• G02B27/0176 Primary

  characterised by mechanical features · CPC title

• G02B2027/015

  involving arrangement aiming to get less bulky devices · CPC title