Patent Publication Number: US-2006012974-A1

Title: Multifunctional glasses

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
      1. Field of The Invention:  
      The present invention relates to a pair of multifunctional glasses and particularly to a pair of glasses, which provides a special structure with multiple functions.  
      2. Description of Related Art  
      Usually, glasses are used for correcting defects of vision such as near-sight, presbyopia and astigmatism, or for isolating foreign harmful light such as ultraviolet rays. Generally, design for glasses is mostly emphasized on profiling or components of the glasses to enhance visual aesthetic feeling and wearing comfort. A front frame of the glasses has two rims for fixing lens with a pair of nosepieces at the middle part thereof. a pair of pivotal side frames extending rearward from two lateral sides of the front frame respectively so that the entire glasses can be supported with nose and ears to constitute four-point locating. Hence, the front frame and the side frames are indispensable components for glasses.  
      However, functional disorder such as strabismus or amblyopia is not possible to be corrected with the ordinary glasses. Although strabismus and amblyopia are not belonged to symptoms of vision, the appearance of the patient could be affected seriously and it results in the patient being self-abased. Generally, strabismus and amblypia are cured by way of following methods. (a) wearing specially made glasses such as dual lighting glasses and a prism being added to the lens for images of two eyes being closer when necessary and (b) vision training being made in case of the patient finding double images, which are generated from sight axes of the two eyes being not aligned for joining the two images as single image. Hence, how to design glasses providing effect of sight training instead of specially made glasses is a subject worth to be overcome by the manufacturers.  
      Glasses with an illuminator at two lateral sides thereof are mostly used where the illumination is poor. For instance, Taiwanese Patent Gazette No. 488711 discloses a magnetic piece being arranged two lateral sides of the glasses and the illuminator is joined to the magnetic piece respectively. Further, the illuminator has a lighting part and a magnetic joining part with a switch component for controlling on and off of the lighting part. The illuminator can be detached from the glasses and used separately. Therefore, the illuminator on the prior art can be either joined to the glasses or detached from the glasses for offering function of lighting. Besides, the illuminator is mostly detachably joined to the glasses instead of being joined integrally with the glasses.  
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
      The crux of the present invention is to provide a pair of glasses with at least an integrally attached luminous member for offering functions such as performing physical treatment, safety indication, funny presentation and illumination at night.  
      Accordingly, glasses according to the present invention includes a front frame and two side frames, wherein, a chamber is provided in the front frame at least at one of the two lateral ends thereof for receiving a luminous member and a recess is provided at least at the front end of one of the side frames to be arranged with a power control part corresponding to the luminous member. Hence, the luminous member can be turned on in case of the side frames being unfolded and the power control part touching the luminous member and the luminous member is turned off in case of the side frames being folded and the power control part detaching from the luminous member.  
      Next, the glasses according to the present invention have the front frame thereof includes a chamber, being provided at least at one of the two lateral ends thereof for receiving a luminous member; a frame room, receiving two electrode plates and at least a cell; a rear wire slot, receiving two lead wires, which are coupled to the luminous member; a knob, being movably attached to the frame room; and a rear cover plate, closing the rear wire slot. Hence, the luminous member can be turned on or off by way of the knob being operated to allow the electrode plates touching or detaching the cell.  
      Further, the glasses according to the present invention to have the frame room thereof with a conductive button, which has a on and mode selection button part and a off button part on the surface thereof, and an integrated circuit, which is received in the frame room and has a microprocessor, a cell and two joints corresponding to the on and mode selection button part and the off button part respectively. Hence, the luminous member can be turned on or off and perform different functions by way of pressing the conductive button. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
      The present invention can be more fully understood by reference to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:  
       FIGS. 1 and 2  are exploded perspective views of multifunctional glasses according to the present invention in a first embodiment thereof;  
       FIG. 3  is a perspective view of the first embodiment according to the present invention;  
       FIGS. 4   a  and  4   b  are fragmentary views illustrating a luminous member is attached to the glasses in the first embodiment of the present invention;  
       FIG. 5  is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating a power control part of the first embodiment according to the present invention;  
       FIGS. 6 and 7  are perspective views of the second embodiment according to the present invention;  
       FIGS. 8 and 9  are fragmentary perspective views illustrating a power control part of the second embodiment according to the present invention;  
       FIG. 10  is a perspective view of the second embodiment;  
       FIG. 11  is a perspective view of the third embodiment; and  
       FIG. 12  is a block diagram of a integrated circuit in the third embodiment. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
      With reference to FIGS.  1  to  5 , basically a pair of multifunctional glasses  1  according to the present invention includes at least a luminous member  2  and a power control part  3 . The glasses  1  can be ordinary vision correction type glasses or a specific function type glasses such as sunglasses, glasses for sporting and glasses for working.  
      Wherein, the glasses  1  provide a front frame  11  for fitting lens  112  and two elongated side frames  12 . A nosepiece part  111  is located at the middle of the front frame  11 . These are essential parts for glasses and no detail will be described further.  
      The front frame  11  is provided with at least a chamber  113  for receiving and locating the luminous member  2  and it is preferable that the chamber  113  is disposed at a lateral side of the front frame  11  as shown in the figures and the luminous member  2  preferably is a light emit diode (LED) such as red, blue and green multi-chip type LED for generating single color light or mixed color light or ultraviolet ray type LED for adaptable with different functions while in use.  
      The power control part  3  supplies power required by the luminous member  2  and controls the luminous member  2  being on or off. The power control part  3  is disposed in a recess  122  at the front end of each side frame  12  as shown in  FIGS. 1 and 5 . The recess  122  has a guide groove  122   a  at the upper side and lower side thereof for being inserted with two electrodes  31  with the conductive ends  31   a  being perpendicular to the side frames  12  for at least a cell  32  being placed in the recess  122  contacting the conductive ends  31   a . A cover  123  is used for closing the recess  122  to complete assembly of the power control part  3 .  
      It can be seen in  FIGS. 4   a  and  4   b  that the luminous member  2  received in the chamber  113  provides two pins  21  being bent outward to form a U shape respectively and being inserted into a pin hole  113   a  at the rear side of the chamber  113  so that the two pins  21  constitute a contact end  21   a  respectively. When the two side frames  12  are folded up, the power control part  3  at the conductive ends  31   a  is detached from the contact ends  21   a  of the luminous member  21   a  as a state of open circuit. When the two side frames  12  are unfolded as shown in  FIG. 3 , the two conductive ends  31   a  contact with the contact ends  21   a  as a state of close circuit and the luminous member  2  is lit up immediately. Hence, an advantage of the present embodiment is that there is no switch necessary for power the control part  3  and the luminous member  2  is turned on or off merely depending on the side frame  12  being folded up or unfolded.  
      Referring to FIGS.  6  to  10 , the second embodiment of the present invention is illustrated. The power control part  3  is disposed at a frame room  114  of the front frame  11  with two opposite lateral guide grooves  114   a  being arranged at the rim of the frame room  114  for receiving and locating two electrode plates  31 . The electrode plates  31  at the rear side thereof is coupled to two lead wires  33  in a transverse wire slot  115  in the front frame  11  and connected to a luminous member  2  in chambers  113  at two opposite lateral sides of the front frame  11 . The wire slot  115  is closed with a rear cover  116  and the rear cover  116  is located in place by way of engaging tenons  116   a  at both ends thereof inserting into the end part of the wire slot  115 .  
      The frame room  114  is received with a cell  32  and then closed with a knob  34 . The frame room  114  at the top and the bottom thereof extends inward a stopper  114   b  respectively and the knob  34  is provided with at least a stir projection  341  extending inward from the perimeter thereof. Once the knob  34  is turned along a direction, the stir projection  341  can press or release one of the electrode plates  31  so as to touch or detach the cell. Under this circumstance, the luminous member can be turned on or off. Besides, a hollow shield  35  is disposed to surround the knob  34  and is joined to the frame room  114  such that it can enhance the effect of decoration in addition to preventing the knob  34  from loosening.  
      In fact, it is preferable that the luminous member  34  is located at two opposite lateral sides of the glasses  1  and the advantages are listed underneath:  
      (1) The glasses of the present invention can perform physical treatment: The glasses of the present invention can be used for curing the functional disorder such as strabismus or amblyopia. After the luminous members at right and left sides of the eyes being lit up, both eyes can stare at the luminous members sufficiently and evenly to avoid the vision deficiency resulting from strabismus and amblyopis or mitigate the functional disorder of strabismus or amblyopia  
      (2) The glasses of the present invention is helpful for working or reading in an environment of insufficient brilliance: If the luminous member is LED with high light intensity, it can be used as lighting at night or under a condition of poor illumination to facilitate work or reading. Comparing to illuminator worn at the forehead, the glasses of the present invention can lessen disturbing to others in addition to being carried about easily. Further, the glasses of the present invention is smaller in size and it is suitable for tiny and sophisticate job.  
      (3) The glasses of the present invention provides safety indication and interesting symbol: The front frame and the side frame can be transparent and filled with bubbles or fiber optical wires and the luminous members can be multi-chip type LED with red, blue and green colors while in practice. As a result, it can create color changes between single and mixed color being projected to the front frame and/or the side frames as safety indication and identification moving at night such as taking night exercise or changing amusing colors in a night party.  
      (4) The glasses of the present invention provides a function of recognition: If the luminous member is ultraviolet light type LED, the glasses of the present invention can be used for detecting counterfeit currency. Hence, when the LED is lit up, fluorescent lines and implicative figures on the paper bills can be identified as being authentic or false.  
      Referring to  FIGS. 10 and 11 , the third embodiment is illustrated. Most part of the present embodiment is similar to the second embodiment and the difference of the present embodiment is in that a micro integrated circuit instead of the knob. The integrated circuit  36  has a microprocessor  361  with a battery  32  as the power source and two joints  362 ,  363 . The joint  362  is for on the luminous member and mode selection and the joint  363  is for off the luminous member. Either on-mode selection half button part or off half button part of the conductive button  37  on the surface of the frame room  114  can be pressed for turning on the luminous member and selecting function modes such as the luminous member performing color changing or red color twinkling or for turning off the luminous member.  
      The preceding mode selection is operated by way of the microprocessor  361  being coupled to an oscillation circuit  364  such that the luminous member  2  can provide a function of twinkling or color changing. Meanwhile, the integrated circuit  36  can be coupled to an electromagnetic sensing circuit  365  for detecting ambient electromagnetic wave and the microprocessor  361  orders a buzzer  366  to emit alarm as warning in case of the electromagnetic wave exceeding a default value set in the microprocessor  361 . Besides, the integrated circuit is further coupled to a non-touch type temperature detect circuit  367  to detect surface temperature on the forehead of the user and a signal can be sent to the microprocessor in case of the temperature exceeding a preset constant (38.5° C.) and it allows the luminous member  2  to generate red inner flash light to signal the user having a fever.  
      Furthermore, the frame room  114  can be added a small vibration motor  38  and the circuit board  36  has a motor drive circuit  368  coupled to the vibration motor  38 . Once the joint  362  is switched to massage function, the microprocessor  361  actuates the motor  38  to run via the motor drive circuit  368  so as to massage acupuncture points between eyes and above nose for relaxing exhausted eyes.  
      While the invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that modifications or variations may be easily made without departing from the spirit of this invention, which is defined by the appended claims.