CN108710213B

CN108710213B - Head-mounted equipment

Info

Publication number: CN108710213B
Application number: CN201810972551.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 顾恒恒
Original assignee: Goertek Techology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Goertek Techology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-08-24
Filing date: 2018-08-24
Publication date: 2024-02-06
Anticipated expiration: 2038-08-24
Also published as: CN108710213A

Abstract

The invention relates to a head-wearing device, which comprises a device body, a supporting rod, an earphone mounting seat and an earphone, wherein the device body comprises, but is not limited to, a helmet, VR equipment, a mask and glasses, a first end of the supporting rod is rotatably connected with the device body, a second end of the supporting rod is connected with the earphone mounting seat through a telescopic mechanism, and an earphone main body is rotatably arranged on the earphone mounting seat; when using, through telescopic machanism, the user can adjust the earphone for the far and near of equipment body for the angle of adjustable earphone for the equipment body through the rotation of bracing piece for the angle of equipment body, through rotating the earphone, the user can also suitably adjust the angle of earphone and have been convenient for wear, from this, can see that the earphone of above-mentioned head-mounted device adjusts more in a flexible way, helps improving the travelling comfort that the user was worn, promotes use experience, satisfies the user demand better.

Description

Head-mounted equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic equipment, in particular to head-mounted equipment.

Background

VR (Virtual Reality) as a novel visual electronic consumer product has a virtual reality function, can greatly meet the mental lives of people, and is rapidly increased in the society.

When traditional VR product used under the environment that is noisy, need additionally increase a plug earphone, frequent plug earphone and the in-process to the earphone cord drag lead to the earphone to damage easily, influence experience, consequently, VR product and earphone all-in-one device have appeared in the present market, but because people's head shape and size, the big or small shape of ear and the position of ear for the head all have great difference, and the structure of integral type, the regulation of earphone position is restricted easily, often is difficult to satisfy user's demand.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to improve the flexibility of earphone position adjustment and meet user demands, the invention discloses a head-mounted device, which comprises a device body, a supporting rod, an earphone mounting seat and an earphone, wherein:

the first end of bracing piece with equipment body rotatable coupling, the second end of bracing piece pass through telescopic machanism with the earphone mount pad is connected, the earphone main part rotationally set up in the earphone mount pad.

Preferably, a first rotation limiting device is arranged between the support rod and the equipment body, and the first rotation limiting device is used for enabling the support rod to be kept at a target position relative to the equipment body.

Preferably, the first rotation limiting device is a friction limiting device or a clamping limiting device.

Preferably, the first rotation limiting device comprises an elastic rubber pad and a mounting plate, a pre-mounting position is formed between any two adjacent devices in the device body, the support rods and the mounting plate, at least one device body and one support rod are provided with mounting holes, a plug is formed on the other one of the device body and the support rods, and the plug penetrates through the mounting holes to be connected with the mounting plate and enable the elastic rubber pad to be in a pressed state.

Preferably, the telescopic mechanism comprises a sliding groove, a sliding plate and a limiting device, wherein the sliding groove is formed in one of the supporting rod and the earphone mounting seat, the sliding plate is arranged in the other of the supporting rod and the earphone mounting seat, the sliding plate is in sliding fit with the sliding groove, the limiting device is matched with the sliding plate to prevent the sliding plate from sliding along the sliding groove in a first state, and the limiting device is separated from the sliding plate in a second state so that the sliding plate can slide along the sliding groove.

Preferably, the limiting device comprises:

a ratchet bar arranged on one of the slide plate and the slide groove;

the pawl is arranged on the other one of the sliding plate and the sliding groove and is matched with the ratchet bar;

a button for pushing the pawl out of engagement with the ratchet bar;

a first return member for urging the pawl into engagement with the ratchet bar and a second return member for urging the button away from the pawl.

Preferably, at least one of the mating surfaces between the button and the pawl is a guiding inclined surface, and the guiding inclined surface is used for making the moving direction of one of the button, the pawl and the ratchet bar perpendicular to the moving directions of the other two.

Preferably, one of the earphone mounting seat and the earphone is provided with a spherical mounting groove, the other one is provided with a spherical protrusion matched with the spherical mounting groove, a fastener penetrates through a through hole in the center of the spherical protrusion and the through hole in the center of the spherical mounting groove to be matched and connected with a matching piece so as to connect the earphone with the earphone mounting seat, and the hole diameter of the through hole in the center of the spherical protrusion is larger than the diameter of the fastener so that the earphone can rotate around the axis and the radial direction of the earphone mounting seat relative to the earphone mounting seat.

Preferably, a second rotation limiting device is arranged between the earphone and the earphone mounting seat, and the second rotation limiting device is used for enabling the earphone to be kept at a target position relative to the earphone mounting seat.

Preferably, the fastener is a ball head rotating rod, one side of the spherical bulge away from the spherical mounting groove is provided with a spherical matching groove, and the ball head of the ball head rotating rod is matched with the spherical matching groove.

Preferably, the second rotation limiting device is a spherical rubber pad, the spherical rubber pad is wrapped on the ball head of the ball head rotating rod and located between the ball head and the spherical matching groove, and the ball head rotating rod is in a compressed state after being matched and connected with the matching piece.

As can be seen from the above technical solution, the headset disclosed in the present invention includes a device body, a support rod, a headset mounting seat, and a headset, where the device body includes but is not limited to a helmet, a VR device, a mask, and glasses, a first end of the support rod is rotatably connected to the device body, a second end of the support rod is connected to the headset mounting seat through a telescopic mechanism, the headset body is rotatably disposed on the headset mounting seat, the rotatable connection between the first end of the support rod and the device body and the rotatable connection between the headset body and the headset mounting seat may be about one axis, or may refer to a combined movement about multiple axes, and wired or wireless connection may be adopted between the headset and the device body; when using, through telescopic machanism, the user can adjust the earphone for the far and near of equipment body for the angle of adjustable earphone for the equipment body through the rotation of bracing piece for the angle of equipment body, through rotating the earphone, the user can also suitably adjust the angle of earphone and have been convenient for wear, from this, can see that the earphone of above-mentioned head-mounted device adjusts more in a flexible way, helps improving the travelling comfort that the user was worn, promotes use experience, satisfies the user demand better.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a headset disclosed in an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the overall structure of the earphone disclosed in the embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the swing structure of the earphone disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the telescopic structure disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the telescopic pawl disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention in combination with a ratchet bar;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the operation part of the telescopic structure disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is an exploded view of the headset disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a partial cross-sectional view of a connection between an earphone and an earphone mount disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein:

10 is an equipment body; 110 is a housing; 120 is an inner shell; 130 is a mounting hole;

20 is a supporting rod; 210 is a plug; 220 is an elastic rubber pad; 230 is a mounting plate; 240 is a skateboard;

30 is an earphone mounting seat; 310 is the upper shell; 320 is the lower shell; 330 is a spherical mounting groove; 340 is a chute;

40 is an earphone; 410 is the lower ear cup; 420 is the upper ear cup; 430 is a gasket; 440 is dustproof foam; 450 is an earphone sleeve; 460 is a spherical bulge;

50 is a limiting device; 510 is a ratchet bar; 520 is a pawl; 530 is a second reset element; 540 is a button; 550 is a first reset element; 560 is a guiding incline;

60 is a ball head rotating rod; 70 is a connecting screw;

80 is a spherical rubber pad; 810 is a lower rubber pad; 820 is an upper rubber pad;

90 is a gland; 100 is a pre-installed position.

Detailed Description

The core of the invention is to provide a head-mounted device so as to improve the flexibility of earphone position adjustment and meet the requirements of users.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is an isometric view of a headset disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention, where the headset includes a device body 10, a support rod 20, an earphone mount 30, and an earphone 40.

The device body 10 shown in fig. 1 is a VR device, but the device body 10 may be, but is not limited to, a helmet, a mask, glasses, etc., the first end of the support rod 20 is rotatably connected with the device body 10, the second end of the support rod 20 is connected with the earphone mounting seat 30 through a telescopic mechanism, the earphone 40 is rotatably disposed on the earphone mounting seat 30, the first end of the support rod 20 is rotatably connected with the device body 10 and the rotatable connection between the main body of the earphone 40 and the earphone mounting seat 30 may rotate around one axis or refer to a combined movement rotating around a plurality of axes, a wired or wireless connection may be adopted between the earphone 40 and the device body 10, and the earphone 40 may adopt an in-ear structure or a non-in-ear structure.

As shown in fig. 1, in the embodiment of the present invention, the device body 10 is a VR device, and the VR device includes a VR main body, a headband, and a transitional connection portion between the VR main body and the headband, and the first end of the support rod 20 may be connected to any one of the VR main body, the headband, and the transitional connection portion.

It can be seen that, compared with the prior art, in the above-mentioned embodiment, when in use, the headset 40 is adjusted more flexibly by the telescopic mechanism, so as to improve the wearing comfort of the user, enhance the use experience, and better meet the user requirements, and the user can also properly adjust the angle of the headset 40 by rotating the headset 40, so that the headset 40 disclosed in the above-mentioned embodiment is used, and the headset 40 is adjustable in distance relative to the device body 10, and is used for adjusting the angle of the headset 40 relative to the device body 10 by rotating the support rod 20 relative to the device body 10.

It will be appreciated that after adjusting the headset 40 to a suitable position, the user will certainly want the headset 40 to remain in that position, and thus a damping means or rotation limiting means may be provided at each movable position to provide resistance or limit to enable the movable structure to remain in place, and thus in embodiments of the invention a first rotation limiting means is provided between the support bar 20 and the apparatus body 10 for maintaining the support bar 20 in a target position relative to the apparatus body 10. Preferably, the first rotation limiting device is a friction limiting device or a clamping limiting device, and the clamping limiting device can be a one-way clamping limiting device, namely, only limits the rotation of the support rod 20 in one direction and does not limit the rotation of the support rod 20 in the opposite direction, or the clamping limiting device can be a two-way clamping limiting device, namely, the forward rotation of the support rod 20 can be limited and the reverse rotation of the support rod 20 can be limited.

Of course, in the actual use process, the first rotation limiting device is not limited to the friction limiting device or the clamping limiting device, and may also adopt a torsion spring and other structures for limiting, which is not limited herein.

Preferably, the first rotation limiting device is a friction limiting device, that is, the first rotation limiting device limits by friction force, and comprises an elastic rubber pad 220 and a mounting plate 230, wherein a pre-mounting position 100 is formed between any two adjacent devices of the device body 10, the support rod 20 and the mounting plate 230, at least one pre-mounting position 100 is provided with the elastic rubber pad 220, one of the device body 10 and the support rod 20 is provided with a mounting hole 130, the other one of the device body 10 and the support rod 20 is provided with a plug 210, and the plug 210 passes through the mounting hole 130 to be connected with the mounting plate 230 and enable the elastic rubber pad 220 to be in a pressed state.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, in the embodiment of the present invention, the mounting hole 130 is formed on a transitional connection portion of the VR device, the transitional connection portion includes an outer shell 110 and an inner shell 120, the mounting hole 130 is located in the inner shell 120, the mounting plate 230 and the elastic rubber pad 220 are located between the outer shell 110 and the inner shell 120, the plug 210 is formed on the support rod 20, the plug 210 on the support rod 20 passes through the mounting hole 130 to cooperate with the mounting plate 230, and the mounting plate 230 cooperates with the inner shell 120 to clamp the elastic rubber pad 220.

It should be understood that the structure of the first rotation limiting device is only a preferred embodiment provided by the present invention, and in other embodiments, the plug may be disposed on the mounting plate 230, where the plug on the mounting plate 230 passes through the mounting hole on one of the support rod 20 and the device body 10 to connect with the other of the support rod 20 and the device body 10.

Preferably, the telescopic mechanism comprises a sliding groove 340, a sliding plate 240 and a limiting device 50, wherein the sliding groove 340 is arranged on one of the supporting rod 20 and the earphone mounting seat 30, the sliding plate 240 is arranged on the other of the supporting rod 20 and the earphone mounting seat 30, the sliding plate 240 is in sliding fit with the sliding groove 340, the limiting device 50 is matched with the sliding plate 240 to prevent the sliding plate 240 from sliding along the sliding groove 340 in a first state, and the limiting device 50 is separated from the sliding plate 240 in a second state so that the sliding plate 240 can slide along the sliding groove 340.

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is an exploded view of the telescopic structure disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, the sliding plate 240 is disposed on the supporting rod 20, the sliding groove 340 is disposed on the earphone mounting seat 30, the limiting device 50 is disposed on the earphone mounting seat 30, further, the earphone mounting seat 30 includes an upper shell 310 and a lower shell 320, the sliding groove 340 may be enclosed by the upper shell 310 and the lower shell 320, or may be independently disposed on the upper shell 310 or the lower shell 320, the limiting device 50 is hidden in an inner cavity enclosed by the upper shell 310 and the lower shell 320, and only the operation end of the limiting device 50 extends out of the earphone mounting seat 30.

Further optimizing the above technical scheme, the limiting device 50 adopts a ratchet structure, and comprises a ratchet bar 510, a pawl 520, a button 540, a first reset piece 550 and a second reset piece 530, wherein the ratchet bar 510 is arranged on one of the slide plate 240 and the slide groove 340, the pawl 520 is arranged on the other of the slide plate 240 and the slide groove 340, the pawl 520 is matched with the ratchet bar 510, the button 540 is used for pushing the pawl 520 to be separated from the ratchet bar 510, the first reset piece 550 is used for pushing the pawl 520 to be matched with the ratchet bar 510, and the second reset piece 530 is used for enabling the button 540 to be far away from the pawl 520.

In particular, as shown in fig. 4, the ratchet bar 510 is disposed on the sliding plate 240, the pawl 520 is slidably disposed on the earphone mounting seat 30 and is disposed on one side of the chute 340, the button 540 is slidably disposed on the earphone mounting seat 30, the first reset member 550 and the second reset member 530 are both compression springs, when in use, the button 540 pushes the pawl 520 against the force of the second reset member 530, the pawl 520 moves away from the ratchet bar 510 against the force of the first reset member 550 under the pushing of the button 540, when the pawl 520 is separated from the ratchet bar 510, the sliding plate 240 can freely move in the chute 340, and when the button 540 is released, the button 540 is reset under the action of the second reset member 530, and the pawl 520 is meshed with the ratchet bar 510 to limit the sliding plate 240 under the action of the first reset member 550, as shown in fig. 5.

It should be noted that, when the ratchet teeth and the ratchet bar 510 are straight teeth, the above-mentioned limiting structure can perform bidirectional limiting on the sliding plate 240, that is, if the sliding plate 240 is to be moved, the button 540 must be pressed, and when one of the ratchet teeth and the ratchet bar 510 is a helical tooth, the above-mentioned limiting structure performs unidirectional limiting on the sliding plate 240, that is, only when the sliding plate 240 is inserted into or removed from the sliding slot 340, the button 540 is not required to be operated, otherwise.

Further optimize the above technical solution, referring to fig. 6, at least one of the mating surfaces between the button 540 and the pawl 520 is a guiding inclined plane 560, the guiding inclined plane 560 is used to make the moving direction of one of the button 540, the pawl 520 and the ratchet 510 perpendicular to the moving direction of the other two, and by setting the guiding inclined plane 560, the sliding direction of the button 540 can be adjusted, which is more convenient for operation.

It should be noted that in the above embodiment, the pawl 520 may have only one ratchet, or may have a multiple ratchet structure similar to the ratchet 510, and the pawl 520 with multiple ratchet structures may have multiple mating surfaces when engaged with the ratchet 510, so that the mating structure is more stable and firm.

In order to enable the headset 40 to be capable of adjusting the angle relative to the headset mounting seat 30 to adapt to different users, user experience is improved, one of the headset mounting seat 30 and the headset 40 is provided with a spherical mounting groove 330, the other is provided with a spherical bulge 460 matched with the spherical mounting groove 330, a fastener penetrates through a through hole in the spherical bulge 460 and the through hole in the spherical mounting groove 330 to be matched and connected with a matching piece to connect the headset 40 with the headset mounting seat 30, and the diameter of the through hole in the spherical bulge 460 is larger than the diameter of the fastener to enable the headset 40 to rotate around the axis and the radial direction relative to the headset mounting seat 30.

It will be appreciated that in order to enable the spherical protrusion 460 to rotate relative to the spherical mounting groove 330, the spherical protrusion 460 should also be partially exposed outside the spherical mounting groove 330 after the spherical protrusion 460 is mated with the spherical mounting groove 330.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is an exploded view of the earphone 40 disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, the earphone 40 is sequentially composed of a lower ear cup 410, an upper ear cup 420, a pad 430, dust-proof foam 440 and a earphone cover 450, a spherical mounting groove 330 is disposed on the lower shell 320, a spherical protrusion 460 is disposed on the lower ear cup 410, and a fastener passes through a through hole on the lower ear cup 410 and a through hole on the lower shell 320 from between the upper ear cup 420 and the lower ear cup 410 to be connected with a mating member.

Further optimizing the above technical solution, in order to facilitate the rotation of the earphone 40, in the embodiment of the present invention, the fastener is a ball head rotating rod 60, and a spherical matching groove is provided on a side of the spherical protrusion 460 away from the spherical mounting groove 330, where the ball head of the ball head rotating rod 60 is matched with the spherical matching groove.

The matching piece is a connecting screw 70, one end of the rod part of the ball head rotating rod 60, which is far away from the ball head, is provided with a threaded hole, and the connecting screw 70 is matched and connected with the threaded hole on the ball head rotating rod 60.

In order to enable the headset 40 to be kept at a target position relative to the headset mounting 30 and to enhance the user's handling, a second rotational stop is provided between the headset 40 and the headset mounting 30.

Preferably, the second rotation limiting device is a spherical rubber pad 80, the spherical rubber pad 80 wraps the ball head of the ball head rotating rod 60 and is located between the ball head and the spherical matching groove, and the spherical rubber pad 80 is in a compressed state after the ball head rotating rod 60 is matched and connected with the matching piece, as shown in fig. 8.

The spherical rubber pad 80 may be a semi-spherical pad as shown in fig. 8, or may be a fully-covered spherical pad as shown in fig. 7, that is, the spherical rubber pad 80 includes an upper rubber pad 820 and a lower rubber pad 810, the upper rubber pad 820 and the lower rubber pad 810 cooperate to wrap the ball head, further, in order to avoid the upper rubber pad 820 separating from the ball head, as shown in fig. 7, a pressing cover 90 is further provided, a spherical groove cooperating with the upper rubber pad 820 is provided on the pressing cover 90, and the pressing cover 90 is connected with the lower ear muff 410 to compress the upper rubber pad 820.

The head-mounted device provided by the invention is described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present invention have been described herein with reference to specific examples, the description of which is intended only to facilitate an understanding of the method of the present invention and its core ideas. It should be noted that it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and adaptations of the invention can be made without departing from the principles of the invention and these modifications and adaptations are intended to be within the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a head-mounted device which characterized in that includes equipment body, bracing piece, earphone mount pad and earphone, wherein:

the first end of the supporting rod is rotatably connected with the equipment body, the second end of the supporting rod is connected with the earphone mounting seat through a telescopic mechanism, and the earphone is rotatably arranged on the earphone mounting seat;

the telescopic mechanism comprises a sliding groove, a sliding plate and a limiting device, wherein the sliding groove is arranged on one of the supporting rod and the earphone mounting seat, the sliding plate is arranged on the other of the supporting rod and the earphone mounting seat, the sliding plate is in sliding fit with the sliding groove, the limiting device is matched with the sliding plate to prevent the sliding plate from sliding along the sliding groove in a first state, and the limiting device is separated from the sliding plate in a second state so that the sliding plate can slide along the sliding groove;

the limiting device comprises: a ratchet bar arranged on one of the slide plate and the slide groove; the pawl is arranged on the other one of the sliding plate and the sliding groove and is matched with the ratchet bar; a button for pushing the pawl out of engagement with the ratchet bar; a first return member for urging the pawl into engagement with the ratchet bar and a second return member for urging the button away from the pawl.

2. The head mounted device according to claim 1, wherein a first rotation limiting means is provided between the support bar and the device body for maintaining the support bar in a target position relative to the device body.

3. The headgear of claim 2, wherein the first rotation limiter is a friction limiter or a snap limiter.

4. A head-mounted device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the first rotation limiting means comprises an elastic rubber pad and a mounting plate, a pre-mounting position is formed between any adjacent two of the device body, the support rod and the mounting plate, at least one of the pre-mounting positions is provided with the elastic rubber pad, one of the device body and the support rod is provided with a mounting hole, the other of the device body and the support rod is provided with a plug, and the plug passes through the mounting hole to be connected with the mounting plate and to enable the elastic rubber pad to be in a pressed state.

5. The headset of claim 1, wherein at least one of the mating surfaces between the button and the pawl is a guide ramp for moving one of the button, the pawl and the ratchet bar in a direction perpendicular to the other two directions of movement, respectively.

6. The headset of any one of claims 1-3 and 5, wherein one of the headset mounting and the headset is provided with a spherical mounting groove, the other is provided with a spherical protrusion cooperating with the spherical mounting groove, a fastener passes through a through hole in the center axis of the spherical protrusion and the through hole in the center axis of the spherical mounting groove cooperates with a cooperating member to connect the headset with the headset mounting, and the diameter of the through hole in the center axis of the spherical protrusion is larger than the diameter of the fastener to enable the headset to rotate about its own axis and radially relative to the headset mounting.

7. The headset of claim 6, wherein a second rotational stop is disposed between the headset and the headset mount, the second rotational stop being for maintaining the headset in a target position relative to the headset mount.

8. The head set of claim 7 wherein the fastener is a ball head turn bar, a spherical mating groove is provided on a side of the spherical protrusion remote from the spherical mounting groove, and a ball head of the ball head turn bar mates with the spherical mating groove.

9. The head mounted device of claim 8, wherein the second rotation limiting device is a spherical rubber pad, the spherical rubber pad is wrapped on the ball of the ball rotating rod and located between the ball and the spherical matching groove, and the spherical rubber pad is in a compressed state after the ball rotating rod is matched and connected with the matching piece.