CN112509469B

CN112509469B - Wearable device

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Publication number: CN112509469B
Application number: CN202011372263.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑楠
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-30
Filing date: 2020-11-30
Publication date: 2022-08-19
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-30
Also published as: CN112509469A

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides wearing equipment, wearing equipment forms into the annular and has the wearing hole, including casing, reel and flexible screen. An accommodating cavity is formed in the shell, a first opening communicated with the accommodating cavity is formed in the shell, the winding drum is arranged in the accommodating cavity, the fixed end of the flexible screen is connected with the winding drum, and the flexible screen penetrates through the first opening to enable the free end to be located outside the shell; the flexible screen is switchable between an unfolded state and a stored state, and under the condition that the flexible screen is in the stored state, the free end of the flexible screen is close to the first opening, and the flexible screen is wound on the winding drum. The wearing equipment that this application embodiment provided has set up in the casing and has reeled flexible screen the reel has improved wearing equipment's integrated level has promoted wearing equipment's miniaturized setting.

Description

Wearable device

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of electronic equipment, specifically, this application relates to a wearing equipment.

Background

Along with the continuous development of communication technology, more and more intelligent wearing equipment appears in the market. Because intelligence wearing equipment need become user's wearing product, in order to reach fine wearing travelling comfort, intelligence wearing equipment's volume and weight just can not be too big, but in order to guarantee the interaction between wearing equipment and the user, generally need set up fixed display screen on the wearing equipment, and this display screen has occupied originally the volume and just very limited wearing equipment great space, is unfavorable for the development of wearing equipment miniaturization and the improvement of integrated level.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides wearing equipment to solve the problem that current wearing equipment is difficult to realize the miniaturization.

In order to solve the above problem, the following technical solutions are adopted in the embodiments of the present application:

the embodiment of the application provides a wearing equipment, wearing equipment forms into annular and has the wearing hole, includes:

the device comprises a shell, a first connecting piece and a second connecting piece, wherein an accommodating cavity is formed in the shell, and a first opening communicated with the accommodating cavity is formed in the shell;

the winding drum is arranged in the accommodating cavity, the flexible screen comprises a fixed end and a free end which are opposite, the fixed end is connected with the winding drum, and the flexible screen penetrates through the first opening to enable the free end to be located outside the shell;

the flexible screen is switchable between an unfolding state and a storage state, under the condition that the flexible screen is in the unfolding state, the free end of the flexible screen is far away from the first opening, and the flexible screen is unfolded outwards to display information; when the flexible screen is in the storage state, the free end of the flexible screen is close to the first opening, and the flexible screen is wound on the winding drum.

The technical scheme adopted by the embodiment of the application can achieve the following beneficial effects:

the embodiment of the application provides a wearing equipment, wearing equipment forms into the annular and has the wearing hole, including casing, reel and flexible screen. The flexible screen comprises a flexible screen body and is characterized in that a containing cavity is formed in the shell, a first opening communicated with the containing cavity is formed in the shell, the winding drum is arranged in the containing cavity, the flexible screen body comprises a fixed end and a free end which are opposite to each other, the fixed end of the flexible screen body is connected with the winding drum, the flexible screen body penetrates through the first opening to enable the free end to be located outside the shell, and the flexible screen body can be switched between an unfolding state and a storage state. The wearing equipment that this application embodiment provided has set up in the casing and has reeled flexible screen the reel has improved wearing equipment's integrated level has promoted wearing equipment's miniaturized setting.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application and not to limit the application. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a flexible screen of a wearable device in a storage state according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a flexible screen of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application in an unfolded state;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a flexible screen of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application in an unfolded state and fixed;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a left half portion of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a right half part of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a structural diagram of a clockwise rotation of a drum of a wearable device and a distance signal waveform diagram of a hall sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a structural diagram of counterclockwise rotation of a drum of a wearable device and a distance signal waveform diagram of a hall sensor according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a waveform diagram of a distance signal of a hall sensor when a drum of a wearable device provided by an embodiment of the present application rotates;

fig. 9 is a circuit board connection diagram of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Description of reference numerals:

1-a shell; 11-a first opening; 12-a magnet; 13-a chute; 2-winding drum; 21-bottom surface; 22-a rotating shaft; 23-a first baffle; 24-a second baffle; 3-a flexible screen; 31-a stop; 4-a drive assembly; 41-a motor; 42-a hall sensor; 43-a circuit board; 431-a first circuit board; 432-a second circuit board; 44-a switch assembly; 5-wireless charging coil.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the technical solutions of the present application will be described in detail and completely with reference to the following specific embodiments of the present application and the accompanying drawings. It should be apparent that the described embodiments are only a few embodiments of the present application, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the terms "first," "second," etc. are generally used in a generic sense and do not limit the number of terms, e.g., a first term can be one or more than one. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

Technical solutions disclosed in the embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, an embodiment of the present application provides a wearable device formed in a ring shape and having a wearing hole, including:

a housing 1, a roller 2 and a flexible screen 3.

A containing cavity is formed in the shell 1, a first opening 11 communicated with the containing cavity is formed in the shell 1, the winding drum 2 is arranged in the containing cavity, the flexible screen 3 comprises a fixed end and a free end which are opposite, the fixed end of the flexible screen 3 is connected with the winding drum 2, the containing cavity can be a cavity matched with the winding drum 2 in size, and the rest position in the shell 1 is of a solid structure; it is also possible that a larger receiving chamber is formed in the housing 1, the roll 2 only occupying a part of the receiving chamber. The flexible screen 3 extends through the first opening 11 such that the free end is located outside the housing 1.

The flexible screen 3 can be switched between an unfolded state and a stored state, when the flexible screen 3 is in the unfolded state, the free end of the flexible screen 3 is far away from the first opening 11, specifically, the free end of the flexible screen 3 can be manually pulled by a user to unfold the flexible screen 3, or when the flexible screen 3 is wound on the winding drum 2, the winding drum 2 is driven by a driving assembly to rotate to unfold the flexible screen 3, at this time, the flexible screen 3 is unfolded outwards to display information, and the flexible screen 3 can perform information interaction between a wearable device and the user; under the condition that the flexible screen 3 is in the storage state, the free end of the flexible screen 3 is close to the first opening 11, namely the free end of the flexible screen 3 moves towards the direction that the flexible screen 3 is retracted, and at the moment, the flexible screen 3 is wound on the winding drum 2, so that the occupation of the volume of the wearing equipment is avoided.

Specifically, the wearable device further comprises a driving component 4, the driving component 4 is arranged in the accommodating cavity and connected with the winding drum 2, and the driving component 4 is used for driving the winding drum 2 to rotate. With the flexible screen 3 in the storage state, the driving assembly 4 drives the winding drum 2 to rotate.

The wearing equipment that this application embodiment provided utilizes flexible screen 3 can curl and the characteristic of expansion set up in casing 1 and can be convoluteed flexible screen 3 reel 2, and pass through drive assembly 4 drive reel 2 rotates, has realized the curling and the expansion of flexible screen 3 have avoided right the too much of wearing equipment volume occupy, have improved wearing equipment's integrated level has promoted wearing equipment's miniaturization sets up, has improved user's use experience.

Optionally, referring to fig. 2 to 4, a stopper 31 is connected to the free end of the flexible screen 3, and the size of the stopper 31 is larger than that of the first opening 11.

In particular, after the flexible screen 3 extends through the first opening 11 so that the free end is located outside the housing 1, it is convenient for the user to unfold the flexible screen 3 by pulling the free end. However, during the rotation of the drum 2, there is a risk that the free end is pulled into the receiving cavity from the first opening 11 when the drum 2 is rotated through an excessively large angle. And the stopping portion 31 is disposed at the free end of the flexible screen 3, because the size of the stopping portion 31 is larger than the size of the first opening 11, for example, the first opening 11 is a long strip-shaped opening, the stopping portion 31 may also be a long strip, the length of the stopping portion 31 is larger than the length of the first opening 11, or the width of the stopping portion 31 is larger than the width of the first opening 11, the stopping portion 31 may ensure that the free end is located outside the housing 1, and the stopping portion 31 may also provide convenience for a user to pull the flexible screen 3.

Optionally, the stopping portion 31 may be a magnetic rod, the magnetic rod may be made of magnetic materials such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, and the magnetic rod may be attached to and fixed to the free end of the flexible screen 3, so as to facilitate the unfolding of the flexible screen 3. In addition, the surface of casing 1 can set up magnet 12, under the condition that flexible screen 3 is in the expansion state, the magnetic pole with magnet 12 magnetism is inhaled and is connected, can be right flexible screen 3 is fixed after expanding, makes flexible screen 3 can stably show to the outside.

Optionally, referring to fig. 1 to 3, a sliding groove 13 is disposed on a surface of the housing 1, the magnetic rod is slidably connected in the sliding groove 13, and the magnet 12 is disposed at an end of the sliding groove 13 away from the magnetic rod.

Specifically, although the free end of the flexible screen 3 can move during the unfolding process, if the moving direction of the free end is not limited, the flexible screen 3 is inconvenient to display, and the flexible screen 3 may be twisted and damaged. The magnetic rod is slidably connected in the sliding groove 13, so that the free end can move along the sliding groove 13, namely, an accurate unfolding path of the flexible screen 3 is provided, and the display area and the unfolding integrity of the flexible screen 3 are ensured. In addition, magnet 12 set up in spout 13 keeps away from the one end of magnetic pole can realize after flexible screen 3 expandes the magnetic pole with magnet 12's magnetism is inhaled and is connected, has guaranteed the stability when flexible screen 3 expandes.

Alternatively, referring to fig. 5, the winding drum 2 includes a bottom surface 21 and a rotating shaft 22 disposed on the bottom surface 21, and the driving assembly 4 is connected to the rotating shaft 22.

Specifically, the rotating shaft 22 is disposed in the winding drum 2 and serves as a driving shaft for rotating the winding drum 2, and when the driving assembly 4 is connected to the rotating shaft 22, the driving assembly 4 drives the rotating shaft 22 to rotate so as to drive the winding drum 2 to rotate, thereby realizing flexible winding and unwinding of the flexible screen 3.

Optionally, referring to fig. 5, a second opening is provided at a top end of the winding drum 2, the driving assembly 4 is disposed in the winding drum 2 and connected to the housing 1 through the second opening, the driving assembly 4 includes a motor 41, and an output shaft of the motor 41 is coaxially fixed to the rotating shaft 22.

Specifically, the driving assembly 4 is disposed in the winding drum 2, and in a case where the motor 41 drives the rotating shaft 22 to rotate, in order to avoid that the driving assembly 4 rotates along with the winding drum 2, the driving assembly 4 may be connected to the housing 1 through the second opening. In addition, after the driving assembly 4 is connected to the housing 1, since the housing 1 can be stably connected to the user, the stability of the driving assembly 4 is ensured, and the stability of the efficiency of the motor 41 driving the rotation shaft 22 is improved.

Optionally, referring to fig. 5 to 7, a hall sensor 42 is disposed on the motor 41, a first baffle 23 and a second baffle 24 are disposed on a circumference of the bottom surface 21 opposite to the hall sensor 42, and the first baffle 23 is higher than the second baffle 24; in the process that the motor 41 drives the winding drum 2 to rotate, because the motor 41 and the hall sensor 42 are fixed, when the bottom surface 21 completes a full circle of rotation, the first baffle plate 23 and the second baffle plate 24 can do circular motion and respectively face the hall sensor 42 once, and the hall sensor 42 can be used for measuring the distance between the hall sensor 42 and the first baffle plate 23 or the second baffle plate 24; in the case that the bottom surface 21 rotates for a plurality of times, the first blocking plate 23 and the second blocking plate 24 periodically and alternately appear below the hall sensor 42, and the hall sensor 42 can measure the distance between the hall sensor 42 and the first blocking plate 23 or the second blocking plate 24 at regular time and form the waveform of the distance signal. In addition, the first baffle 23 is higher than the second baffle 24, that is, the distance signal between the hall sensor 42 and the first baffle 23 is stronger than the distance signal between the hall sensor 42 and the second baffle 24, so that when a certain circumferential angle (the circumferential angle is not 180 °) is formed between the first baffle 23 and the second baffle 24, the rotation direction of the winding drum 2 can be judged according to the waveform of the distance signal obtained by the hall sensor 42, and whether the flexible screen 3 is in the unfolding process or the storage process can be known. Fig. 6 shows a waveform diagram of a distance signal for unwinding the flexible screen 3 when the winding drum 2 rotates clockwise, and fig. 7 shows a waveform diagram of a distance signal for storing the flexible screen 3 when the winding drum 2 rotates counterclockwise.

In a particular embodiment, referring to fig. 6, 7 and 8, the circumferential angle between the first baffle 23 and the second baffle 24 is 90 °. In the case where the flexible screen 3 is in the stored state, i.e., the flexible screen 3 is wound on the roll 2, the first shutter 23 appears below the hall sensor 42, see fig. 6 a. When the flexible screen 3 is switched from the storage state to the expansion state, a high-intensity peak appears on the distance signal waveform obtained by the hall sensor 42 first, as shown in the waveform of the expansion state in fig. 8. In the case that the bottom surface 21 rotates for a plurality of turns, a plurality of sets of high peaks and low peaks may repeatedly appear on the waveform of the distance signal obtained by the hall sensor 42, for example, 4 high peaks and 3 low peaks are given on the waveform of the unwinding state in fig. 8, which indicates that the flexible screen 3 is completely unwound when the winding drum 2 rotates clockwise for three or more turns. When the flexible screen 3 is stored, a fourth high-intensity wave peak appears on the distance signal waveform obtained by the hall sensor 42, which indicates that the flexible screen 3 is stored in place, and at this time, the driving assembly can be stopped to accurately control the storage of the flexible screen 3.

Optionally, referring to fig. 5, the driving assembly 4 further includes a circuit board 43, and the circuit board 43 is electrically connected to the motor 41. The circuit board 43 can flexibly control the start and stop of the motor 41, and under the condition that the hall sensor 42 is electrically connected with the circuit board 43, the circuit board 43 can achieve the purpose of accurately controlling the flexible screen 3 to be stored through the motor 41.

Specifically, the circuit board 43 includes a first circuit board 431 and a second circuit board 432, the first circuit board 431 is electrically connected to the motor 41, the second circuit board 432 is connected to the housing 1, and the first circuit board 431 is in plug-in fit with the second circuit board 432. In addition, in order to simplify the assembly structure of the circuit board 43, the first circuit board 431 and the second circuit board 432 may be integrally formed to form an inverted L-shaped circuit board structure.

In a specific embodiment, referring to fig. 5, the first circuit board 431 is fixed in the winding drum 2, the first circuit board 431 may be a printed circuit board and is electrically connected to the flexible screen 3, and the first circuit board 431 is used for controlling the display of the flexible screen 3 and the start and stop of the motor 41; the second circuit board 432 is connected to the inner side of the housing 1, the second circuit board 432 may also be a printed circuit board, the first circuit board 431 is connected to the second circuit board 432 through a patch cord after being plugged, a microcontroller, a memory, a communication circuit and a charging circuit may be carried on the second circuit board 432, the communication circuit may specifically be a bluetooth and WIFI circuit, and the second circuit board 432 may perform data interaction with other terminal devices through a bluetooth or WIFI communication mode, and perform data processing and storage at the same time; when wearing equipment electric quantity is not enough, charging circuit can give the suggestion on the flexible screen 3, remind the user to charge to wearing equipment.

Specifically, referring to fig. 9, the first circuit board 431 is a display and control module, and specifically includes a display driving circuit and a motor driving circuit, and the first circuit board 431 is configured to control display of the flexible screen 3 and start and stop of the motor 41; the second circuit board 432 is a central processing unit and comprises a computing unit, a storage unit, a communication unit and a power supply unit, the display driving circuit and the motor driving circuit are connected with the computing unit, and the storage unit, the communication unit and the power supply unit are also connected with the computing unit to complete storage, communication and charging control of the wearable device.

Optionally, the driving assembly 4 includes a switch assembly 44, and the switch assembly 44 is electrically connected to the circuit board 43; when the flexible screen 3 is in the storage state, the switch assembly 44 is actuated and the motor 41 is started through the circuit board 43, and the driving assembly 4 drives the winding drum 2 to rotate.

Specifically, referring to fig. 9, the switch assembly 44 may be a slide switch exposed from the housing 1, and the slide switch is connected to the computing unit of the second circuit board 432. When the flexible screen 3 needs to be stored, the switch assembly 44 acts and transmits an action signal to the computing unit, the computing unit controls the motor 41 to be started in an interlocking manner, and the flexible screen 3 can be wound on the winding drum 2 in the process that the driving assembly 4 drives the winding drum 2 to rotate, so that the flexible screen 3 is stored.

Optionally, referring to fig. 5, the wearable device further includes a wireless charging coil 5 and a battery (not shown), the battery is connected to the wireless charging coil 5 and the power supply unit, the wireless charging coil 5 can implement wireless charging of the battery, and the power supply unit can control information such as charging and discharging voltage and current of the battery, so as to avoid overcharge and overdischarge of the battery.

Optionally, the wearable device may be a ring, a bracelet, smart glasses, smart gloves, or the like. Specifically, taking the finger ring as an example, when the flexible screen 3 is in the storage state, the finger ring and the normal finger ring have no obvious difference in appearance, and meanwhile, the contact damage of the flexible screen 3 is also avoided. The ring provided by the embodiment of the application has the characteristics of small physical space occupation, easiness in wearing, flexible application scene and good practicability, and can effectively transmit information of electronic equipment such as a mobile phone to wearing equipment, so that the interaction experience of a user is improved.

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A wearing apparatus formed in a ring shape and having a wearing hole, comprising:

the device comprises a shell, a first clamping piece and a second clamping piece, wherein an accommodating cavity is formed in the shell, and a first opening communicated with the accommodating cavity is formed in the shell;

the flexible screen is switchable between an unfolding state and a storage state, under the condition that the flexible screen is in the unfolding state, the free end of the flexible screen is far away from the first opening, and the flexible screen is unfolded outwards to display information; under the condition that the flexible screen is in a storage state, the free end of the flexible screen is close to the first opening, and the flexible screen is wound on the winding drum;

the winding drum comprises a bottom surface and a rotating shaft arranged on the bottom surface, and the driving assembly is connected with the rotating shaft;

the driving assembly comprises a motor, a Hall sensor is arranged on the motor, a first baffle and a second baffle are arranged on the circumference of the bottom surface opposite to the Hall sensor, and the first baffle is higher than the second baffle;

and in the process that the motor drives the winding drum to rotate, the Hall sensor is used for measuring the distance between the Hall sensor and the first baffle or the second baffle.

2. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein a stopper is connected to a free end of the flexible screen, and a size of the stopper is larger than a size of the first opening.

3. The wearable device according to claim 2, wherein the stopper portion is a magnetic rod, a magnet is disposed on an outer surface of the housing, and the magnetic rod is magnetically connected with the magnet when the flexible screen is in the unfolded state.

4. The wearing device of claim 3, wherein the housing has a sliding groove formed on a surface thereof, the magnetic rod is slidably connected to the sliding groove, and the magnet is disposed at an end of the sliding groove away from the magnetic rod.

5. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the driving assembly is disposed in the accommodating cavity and connected to the reel, and the driving assembly is configured to drive the reel to rotate.

6. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein a second opening is provided at a top end of the reel, the driving assembly is disposed in the reel and connected to the housing through the second opening, and an output shaft of the motor is coaxially fixed to the rotating shaft.

7. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein the drive assembly further comprises a circuit board electrically connected with the motor.

8. The wearable device of claim 7, wherein the circuit board comprises a first circuit board and a second circuit board, the first circuit board is electrically connected to the motor, the second circuit board is connected to the housing, and the first circuit board and the second circuit board are in plug fit.

9. The wearable device of claim 7, wherein the drive assembly comprises a switch assembly electrically connected with the circuit board;

under the condition that the flexible screen is in the storage state, the switch assembly acts and starts the motor through the circuit board, and the driving assembly drives the winding drum to rotate.