CN213366989U - Adapter and data transmission system - Google Patents

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention. 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 features of the terms first and second in the description and in the claims of the present application may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of such features. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified. 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.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "inside", "outside", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present application, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.

The embodiment of the application provides an adapter used in cooperation with a wearable device, and the wearable device can be connected with a routing device through the adapter through a wired network. The wearable device may be a smart watch, a smart bracelet, or a smart eye, etc., without limitation.

The wearable device may have a band for a user to wear the wearable device through the band, e.g., the wearable device is a smart watch having a watchband, etc.

In order to enable the wearable device to make a wired network connection with a routing device through an adapter, the adapter comprises a main body and a cable, the main body is provided with a first contact, a first end of the cable is connected with the main body, and a second end of the cable is provided with a joint. Correspondingly, the wearable device is provided with second contacts, which in the use state are in contact with corresponding first contacts of the adapter. In this way, when the connector of the cable of the adapter is connected with the routing device, the wearable device can realize wired network connection with the routing device through the adapter. The adapter may be an adapter supporting the T568A/T568B wired Ethernet transport standard.

The second housing may have any other shape such as a circular shape as shown in fig. 1 and 2, or a square shape, and is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, in addition to the second contact point being disposed on the outer surface of the second housing of the wearable device, the second contact point may also be disposed on the outer surface of the band connected to the second housing to reduce contact between the second contact point and the skin of the human body and avoid corrosion by sweat and the like. For example, for a smart watch, the second contact may be disposed on a watchband of the smart watch.

In the embodiments of fig. 3 and 4, the second contacts may be disposed on either the front or back side of the tape body. In another embodiment, the second contact may be disposed on a side surface of the tape body, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, the wearable device may include a main control module and an ethernet module, both disposed in the second housing, a first end of the ethernet module connected to the main control module, and a second end of the ethernet module connected to the second contact. The ethernet module is used for data conversion to convert the data output by the main control module into data capable of being transmitted through the ethernet and convert the data transmitted through the ethernet into data recognizable by the main control module, that is, the ethernet module at least comprises a network card chip for realizing wired network connection.

In some embodiments, the wearable device may default to setting the ethernet module, and the adapter sets the ethernet module, and in these embodiments, the second contact may be connected to the main control module, for example, directly connected to the control module, or connected to the main control module through a signal processing circuit such as filtering, amplifying, and the like.

In connection with the embodiments of fig. 3 and 4, in case the second contacts are provided on the strip, the strip is provided with wires so that the second contacts can be connected with the master control module or the ethernet module located in the second housing through these wires.

In some embodiments, the adapter may include a body and a cable. The main part is equipped with the confession the first surface that wearable equipment placed, first contact sets up on the first surface, the first end of cable with the main part is connected, the second end of cable be equipped with connect, wearable equipment with first contact, just under the condition that connects and routing equipment are connected, wearable equipment with wired network connection is realized to routing equipment.

The cable and the body may be of unitary construction, i.e. the first end of the cable may be connected to the body inside the body. The cable may also be connected to the main body in a pluggable structure, for example, the main body may be provided with an interface, and the cable may be connected to the main body through the interface, which is not limited herein. In the case of connecting with the main body through an interface, the adapter needs to be connected with the router through an additionally configured network cable.

In some embodiments, the adapter may be provided with eight first contacts, such that the adapter is adaptable to both wearable devices provided with four first contacts and wearable devices provided with eight first contacts.

In other embodiments, the adapter may also be provided with four first contacts, which are not limited herein.

In some embodiments, the body of the adapter further includes an ethernet module disposed in the first housing, a first end of the ethernet module being connected to the first contact, a second end of the ethernet module being connected to the first end of the cable. In the case where the body of the adapter is provided with an ethernet module, the wearable device may not need to be provided with an ethernet module.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a still provide a data transmission system, this data transmission system includes wearable equipment and adapter. The wearable device may be the wearable device of any of the above embodiments, and the adapter may be the adapter of any of the above embodiments, wherein the second contact of the wearable device is in contact with the corresponding first contact of the adapter, and the wearable device and the routing device implement a wired network connection if a joint of a cable of the adapter is connected to the routing device.

Wherein at least one of the wearable device and the adapter should be provided with an ethernet module.

For example, this may be that the wearable device comprises an ethernet module, which is connected with said second contact.

For another example, it is also possible that the adapter comprises an ethernet module, a first end of which is connected to the first contact and a second end of which is connected to the first end of the cable.

Each second contact of the wearable device should be in electrical contact with a corresponding first contact of the adapter when the wearable device is in contact with the adapter for wired data transfer. Here, taking the adapter with eight first contacts as an example, if the wearable device also has eight second contacts, the eight first contacts are in electrical contact with the contacts of the eight second contacts with the same definition; and if the wearable device has four second contacts, each of the four first contacts is in electrical contact with a contact of the four first contacts having the same definition, at which time there are four second contacts that are free.

The utility model discloses in, when the user wants to carry out data transmission, must wearable equipment keep under the sufficient condition of electric quantity, with wearable equipment and adapter contact, the adapter will detect wearable equipment's access, then triggers wearable equipment and adapter and carries out the ethernet protocol data interaction.

In one embodiment, taking a smart watch as an example, a user only needs to contact the smart watch with an adapter, the adapter will detect the access of the wearable device, and then trigger link detection, if the link detection is normal, the smart watch will be triggered to prompt the user to connect successful information, otherwise, the user is prompted to prompt related abnormal information, and after all detections are finished, the wearable device and the adapter start normal network communication. And information such as the maximum speed and the real-time data transmission speed of the link can be displayed at the intelligent watch end.

The utility model discloses a scheme is not limited to and adopts 8 foot transmissions of giga, hundred million 4 foot transmissions etc. of giga, and subsequent 10G wired transmission standard also can adopt, and in addition, this scheme also can support to convert the wearable equipment power supply of 2 feet into based on PoE, this router that only needs to be connected with the adapter support PoE power supply can.

Through the scheme of this embodiment, when the user wants to carry out data transmission such as firmware upgrading or file import export to wearable equipment, only need set up wearable equipment and place it on the adapter, can carry out wired communication, make the user can enjoy quick, stable, reliable data transmission to there are slow, the unstable problem of transmission of data transmission speed in solving wearable equipment, promote user's use experience by a wide margin.

The above embodiments focus on differences between the embodiments, and the same or similar parts of the embodiments can be referred to each other.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.