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US 12,724,293 B2Granted
Conductive connection through eyewear hinge
AssigneeSnap Inc.
InventorsDouglas Wayne Moskowitz, David G. Fliszar, Martin Mape
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Abstract
An eyewear device provides for routing a flexible conductive element or conductor through a hollow interior of a hinge mechanism that connects a temple of the eyewear device to its. The hinge mechanism comprises a pair of hinge pieces that defines a composite conduit through the hinge mechanism, conduit and hence the conductor routed through the passage being hidden or obscured from external view in any operational position of the hinge mechanism.
Claims15
An eyewear device comprising:
- a frame holding one or more optical elements;
- a temple coupled to the frame for supporting the frame in position during wearing of the eyewear device;
- a heatsink element incorporated in the temple, wherein the heatsink element comprises a metal core wire of the temple;
- a hinge mechanism that couples the temple to the frame to permit hinged movement between a wearable position and a collapsed position;
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- a conductor extending between the frame and the temple via the hinge mechanism to provide an electrically conductive coupling between components incorporated in the frame and the temple respectively, wherein the conductor is a thermal conductor configured to provide a thermal connection between a heat-generating component incorporated in the frame and the heatsink element incorporated in the temple, the thermal connection extending across the hinge mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.