Patent Grant
11914227
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The disclosure relates to glasses frame devices and more particularly pertains to a new glasses frame device for showing body temperature change and stylistic expression.
The prior art relates to glasses frame devices with color changing or other novelty features. Existing devices include glow-in-the-dark frames and frames with certain color changing elements, such as nose rests and ear pieces, but not with the entire glasses changing color.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a glasses frame including a pair of rim portions and a bridge portion extending between the pair of rim portions. A pair of end pieces is coupled to a left distal end and a right distal end of the pair of rim portions of the glasses frame. A pair of temples is coupled to the pair of end pieces. The pair of temples is hingingly coupled to the pair of end pieces and moves between a folded position and an extended position. The glasses frame, the pair of end pieces, and the pair of temples each have an inner core and a coating layer continuously disposed around the inner core. The coating layer is heat sensitive and changes colors with the user's body temperature. A pair of lenses is coupled to the glasses frame within the pair of rim portions.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The glasses frame 12, the pair of end pieces 18, and the pair of temples 24 each have an inner core 26 and a coating layer 28 continuously disposed around the inner core 26. The coating layer 28 changes colors with the user's body temperature and may comprise a plurality of thermotropic liquid crystals 30 within an outer transparent membrane 32. The thermotropic liquid crystals 30 change structure at a molecular level to affect the wavelengths of light being absorbed and reflected and to thus alter the visual chromatic appearance to an observer.
The thermotropic liquid crystals 30 may be selected and manipulated to react to different temperature thresholds as well as to select which colors are shown. The coating layer 28 may change between three predetermined colors including a normal color for temperatures within a normal body temperature range, a cold color for temperatures below the normal body temperature range, and a hot color for temperatures above the normal body temperature range. The coating layer 28 may alternatively change between only two predetermined colors, the hot color and the cold color, transitioning at a predetermined threshold. The user thus has further ability to personalize his or her glasses.
A pair of lenses 34 is coupled to the glasses frame 12 within the pair of rim portions 14. The pair of lenses 34 may be, but is not limited to, reading glasses, prescriptions lenses, sunglasses, blue light blocking lenses, protective lenses, novelty lenses, and the like. The apparatus 10 may thus be applied to any application traditional glasses are used for.
In use, the apparatus 10 is worn like traditional glasses. As the user's body temperature fluctuates the heat is transferred through the bridge portion 16 and the pair of temples 24 to change the color of the coating layer 28.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
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