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US 11,531,215 B1Granted
Eyewear frame as charging contact
AssigneeSnap Inc.
InventorsShaheen Moubedi, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
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AssigneeSnap Inc.
InventorsShaheen Moubedi, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
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Eyewear including a see-through display, a battery, and a frame forming at least one electrical contact for connection to a battery charger for battery charging. The electrical contact is large compared to the size of a battery charging contact to allow easy alignment. The frame may be tied to ground in one example, and to a positive potential in another example. In another example, the frame may be formed into a left portion that is electrically isolated from a right portion. The left portion has a contact coupled to a ground electrode of the battery and is configured to connect to a ground electrode of the battery charger. The right portion has a contact coupled to a positive electrode of the battery and is configured to connect to a positive potential of the battery charger.
Eyewear, comprising:
A method for use with eyewear, the eyewear having a frame having a first side and a second side, a temple adjacent the first side of the frame, a see-through display supported by the frame, a battery coupled to the frame and having a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the frame is electrically coupled to the battery first electrode, the frame having a first contact configured to connect to a battery charger, wherein the frame first side has the first contact, and the frame second side has a second contact that is electrically isolated from the first contact, wherein the second contact is configured to connect to the battery charger, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.