EP1371505A1

EP1371505A1 - Motion ligthing pen with variably accompanying sound action

Info

Publication number: EP1371505A1
Application number: EP02013114A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Fang-Yue Huang; Wen-Chen Chung
Original assignee: Excellence Optoelectronics Inc
Current assignee: Excellence Optoelectronics Inc
Priority date: 2002-06-14
Filing date: 2002-06-14
Publication date: 2003-12-17

Abstract

A pen (10) with both music and motion lighting function but capably emitting multiple than one color light source variably accompanying the cadence or rhythm of pleasant music played to fascinate people for enjoying sight and hearing feeling. A music-light generating means (90) disclosed is fit into a tubular cylindrical holder (20) invented as a sound box to have those sounds generated from the music-light generating means capably made a resonance for hearing more sweet-sounding.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a pen with motion light variably accompanying sound melody and more particularly to a pen with tubular cylindrical holder invented as a sound box to resonate music and with multiple colors lighting variably accompanying the rise and fall of music played.

2. Description of Related Art

As known to all, a variety of writing tools such as pens have been developed for use in different conditions or for different purposes. For example, a light pen has an illuminator attached thereto, a laser pointer pen has a laser point attached thereof, and a sound generating pen has a sound producer attached therein. Many prior art with respect to writing pen have been disclosed a sound producer installed inside its pen cap for generating sound or music as shown in patent number US5967686; US5944436; GB2280642; WO9304874; WO9213725; EP0047379 and JP8238890 etc. Additionally, according to the disclosure of patent number US6261018, a pen with both sound and illumination function has ever been disclosed in related prior art too.
This present invention is to provide a new design and an improvement of pen structure to those prior art disclosed. This pen not only designed to have both sound and illumination function but capably emit multiple color light sources changeable corresponding to the musical scale of sound or music played to attract people's sight for amusement. In addition, the assembly structure of this present invention is capably invented in a very narrow space of pen, since prior art device utilized for producing such sound and illumination function have been very large and cumbersome, and the pen of this present invention with a tubular cylindrical holder is particularly invented as a sound box to resonate sound more sweet-sounding than that of prior art does.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This pen of this invention may be used as gifts to family, relatives and friends, especially for seasonal greetings during holidays. We may play Christmas songs and melody lighting for Christmas season, love songs for Valentine's day, etc. It may be used as personal good amusement tool, playing music and looking at motion lighting while writing or simply enjoying sound-light amusement.
One aspect of this invention is to provide a pen with both music and motion lighting function but capably emitting multiple color light sources variably accompanying the cadence or rhythm of pleasant music played to fascinate people for enjoying sight and hearing amusement.
Another aspect of this invention is invented a music-light generating means capably emitting multiple color light sources variably accompanying the cadence or rhythm of pleasant sound played, which is fit into a tubular cylindrical holder capably used as a sound box to resonate those sounds generated from the music-light generating means more sweet-sounding for hearing.
Other aspect of this invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a pictorial view of a pen in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the pen in FIG. 1;
FIG 3 is a longitudinal cross-section view of the pen in FIG 1 indicating the internal assembly structure of the present invention;
FIG 4 is a pictorial view of a music-light generating means invented in the present invention;
FIG 5 is a layout drawing of an Integrated Circuit used in music-light generating means shown in FIG 4.

DETAILED DESCRITION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The features and advantages of this invention are described in this specification in conjunction with the drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention.
With reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the present invention provides a pen with multiple lighting colors variably accompanying sound actuation basically comprising a pen body 10, a tubular cylindrical holder 20 and a pen head 30 at least.
The pen body 10 is adapted to receive a writing cartridge 11 therein and itself made of a transparent material such as transparent plastic in order to guide the light source, generated by a music-light generating means 50 invented in the invention, and to diffuse the light source emitted outwards.
The tubular cylindrical holder 20, connected to the top of said pen body 10, is provided with a hollow chamber 22 to be formed like a sound box for resonance so that several sound holes 21 are opened and properly positioned on its surface for generating sweet sounds due to sound capably resonated inside said chamber. And, the tubular cylindrical holder 20 of the invention is especially made of metal material to make its surrounding walls capably used for electrical conduction too.
With reference to FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, a music-light generating means 50, capably generating sound and light simultaneously, includes a multicolor LED base 51, an integrate circuit 52 directly installed on the bottom of said multicolor LED 51, an electro-magnetic transducer 55 with a pair of connecting foot 56 connected to said multicolor LED base 51 and said integrate circuit 52, and a pair of bending positive electrode 53 and inclined negative electrode 54.
The outer dimension of said music-light generating means 50 is properly smaller than the interior dimension of the tubular cylindrical holder 20 in such a manner as to define said music-light generating means 50 positioned therein.
With reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, said multicolor LED base 51 contains a plurality of LED chips capable of generating different color of light source, the practical embodiment of the invention is to provide multiple LED chips, including red LED chip, green LED chip and blue LED chip at least, connected to the L1, L2 and L3 of said integrate circuit 52 shown as FIG 5 to generate multiple colors corresponding to the musical scale of music. The multiple colors lighting may be emitted by multiple chips on board, Surface Mounted Devices or multiple through-hole lamps. Under the control of predetermined programs of said integrate circuit 52, by according the cadence or rhythm of song or music, each single LED chip may be alternately selected in such a way to emit its own mono-color light, or two or more single LED chip may be alternately selected in such a way to simultaneously emit and mix their own mono-color lights as other different color lights. Therefore, said multicolor LED base 51 of the invention is capable of generating to at least seven color light sources which are variably accompanying the rise and fall of sound or music played by the programs of said integrate circuit 52.
Said electro-magnetic transducer 55 of the invention, does not like a buzzer or a sound generating device commonly used in several prior art. This invention is designed without a sound resonating media, therefore, which sound generated is almost hardly heard if not through a sound resonating media for resonance. Nevertheless, said tubular cylindrical holder 20 of the invention is invented as a sound box for resonance mentioned above and used as a sound resonating media for said electro-magnetic transducer 55 to generate sound due to resonating effect. This is a very important improvement of the invention due to those prior arts never disclosed before. By this way, the sound generated from said electro-magnetic transducer 55 and transmitted through said sound hole 21 of said tubular cylindrical holder 20 is capably heard more sweet-sounding than that of prior art did.
Said electro-magnetic transducer (referred as E.M.T.) 55 of the invention provides a pair of connecting foot 56 connected to said multicolor LED base 51 shown as FIG. 4, and said pair of connecting foot 56 is respectively connected to the MO1 (Music Output 1) and MO2 (Music Output 2) of said integrate circuit 52 shown as FIG 5 too. Accordingly, under the control of said integrate circuit 52 of the invention, said music-light generating means 50 may reduce into practice to simultaneously generate pleasant sound or music for hearing and synchronously accompany the variety of cadence or rhythm of sound or music played to emit at least seven different color light sources for sight, when power is supplied through said bending positive electrode 53 and said inclined negative electrode 54 to said music-light generating means 50.
Said bending positive electrode 53, with both ends bent, is connected to VCC of said integrate circuit 52 by its one end shown as FIG 5, and its another end is positioned on the position above the top of said electro-magnetic transducer 55. For preventing from short circuit happened, the shape of said bending positive electrode 53 is formed to keep a distance from both said tubular cylindrical holder 20 and said electro-magnetic transducer 55 shown as FIG. 3.
Said inclined negative electrode 54 is folded in inclined shape, which one is connected to GND of said integrate circuit 52 shown as FIG. 5, and which inclined end is positioned on the position against the surrounding walls of said tubular cylindrical holder 20 for conductance when said music-light generating means 50 is securely positioned inside the chamber of said tubular cylindrical holder 20 shown as FIG. 3.
Referring to FIG 2 and 3, a set of battery 40, used as a power source to said music-light generating means 50, are in series connected to said bending positive electrode 53 with their positive electrode.
When both said music-light generating means 50 and said batteries 40 are fit into the chamber 22 of said tubular cylindrical holder 20, a pen head 30, made of metal material, is used to fasten on the top end of said tubular cylindrical holder 20 to completely form said chamber of said tubular cylindrical holder 20 as a sound box, and simultaneously to secure said music-light generating means 50 and said batteries 40 in their proper positions by way of a insulator 32 installed on front end of said pen head 30 securely against the top of said batteries 40. Said pen head 30 is also provided with a push-button switch 31 which bottom has a connecting spring 33 used to be a contact to said batteries 40.
When said push-button switch 31 is pushed down, said connecting spring 33 removed down is totally against the top of said batteries 40, the path constituted by said connecting spring 33, said pen head 30 made of metal, said tubular cylindrical holder 20 made of metal, said music-light generating means 50 (through said inclined negative electrode 54, said integrate circuit 52, said bending positive electrode 53), and said batteries 40, is a closed circuit for conductance. Thus, said music-light generating means 50, once supplied power from said batteries 40 provided, is immediately to activate said multicolor LED base 51 capably generating to seven color light sources variably accompanying the cadence or rhythm of sound or music played according to predetermined programs of said integrate circuit 52.
When said push-button switch 31 is pushed again, said connecting spring 33 of said push-button switch 31 is released and kept a gap far way from the top of said batteries 40. The power from said batteries is then stopped to be supplied to said music-light generating means 50 so that those different color light sources variably accompanying the cadence or rhythm of sound or music played are deactivated and stopped.
While particular embodiments of this invention have been shown in the drawings and described above, it will be apparent, that many changes may be made in the form, arrangement and positioning of the various elements of the combination. In consideration thereof it should be understood that preferred embodiments of this invention disclosed herein are intended to be illustrative only and not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

Claims

A motion lighting pen with light variably accompanying sound actuation, at least comprising:

a pen body made of a transparent material to guide or diffuse different color light sources;

a tubular cylindrical holder made of metal and connected to said pen body which is provided with a hollow chamber used as sound box for resonance and several sound holes are opened on its surface;

a music-light generating means fit into the chamber of said tubular cylindrical holder having a multicolor LED base for emitting different color light sources, an integrate circuit installed on the bottom of said multicolor LED to control different color light sources emitted variably accompanying the cadence or rhythm of sound played, an electro-magnetic transducer without sound resonating media and with a pair of connecting foot connected to said integrate circuit, and a pair of electrodes connected to said integrate circuit;

a set of batteries in series connected to said positive electrode of said music-light generating means with their positive electrode; and

a pen head, made of metal and fasten on the top end of said tubular cylindrical holder, having a insulator installed on front end capably against the top of said batteries for position, and a push-button switch with a connecting spring as a contact to said batteries.
The pen with light variably accompanying sound actuation according to claim 1, wherein said music-light generating means having a multicolor LED base with multiple chips connected to said integrate circuit for emitting multiple color light sources.
The pen with light variably accompanying sound actuation according to claim 1, wherein said music-light generating means having a bending positive electrode kept a distance from both said tubular cylindrical holder and said electro-magnetic transducer which one end is connected to VCC of said integrate circuit and another end is positioned on the position above the top of said electro-magnetic transducer, and a inclined negative electrode with one end connected to GND of said integrate circuit and the other end positioned against the surrounding walls of said tubular cylindrical holder for conductance.
The pen with light variably accompanying sound actuation according to claim 2, wherein said music-light generating means having a bending positive electrode kept a distance from both said tubular cylindrical holder and said electro-magnetic transducer which one end is connected to VCC of said integrate circuit and another end is positioned on the position above the top of said electro-magnetic transducer, and a inclined negative electrode with one end connected to GND of said integrate circuit and the other end positioned against the surrounding walls of said tubular cylindrical holder for conductance.