Vertical-Tilt Display Mount with Eccentric Gear Mechanism
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Summary
Problems
Existing wall-mounting systems for flat-screen displays lack a stable and adjustable mechanism to securely tilt electronic displays without requiring additional user input or tools, particularly for accommodating a range of weights and sizes.
Innovation solutions
A spring-based counterbalancing device with an eccentric gear mechanism that allows for easy manual adjustment of the vertical tilt angle of electronic displays, using a tension spring and adjustment screw to provide a counterbalancing force and friction at the pivot point, enabling secure and stable tilting without additional user input.
TRIZ Analysis
Specific contradictions:
General conflict description:
Principle concept:
If a spring-based counterbalancing device is added to provide stable tilt orientation, then the stability and durability of the tilt mechanism is improved, but the device complexity increases
Why choose this principle:
The tension spring is integrated within the existing pivot point structure of the mounting mechanism. The spring's ends are attached to the bracket and the main fixing plate, nesting the counterbalancing function within the existing structural framework rather than adding a separate external mechanism.
Principle concept:
If a spring-based counterbalancing device is added to provide stable tilt orientation, then the stability and durability of the tilt mechanism is improved, but the device complexity increases
Why choose this principle:
The tension spring is pre-configured to provide counterbalancing force before the display is even mounted. The spring's tension is adjusted via the adjustment screw to pre-establish the desired tilt orientation, so that when the display is mounted, the counterbalancing action is already in place and requires no additional user input.
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Data Source
AI summary:
A spring-based counterbalancing device with an eccentric gear mechanism that allows for easy manual adjustment of the vertical tilt angle of electronic displays, using a tension spring and adjustment screw to provide a counterbalancing force and friction at the pivot point, enabling secure and stable tilting without additional user input.
Abstract
A device for mounting an electronic display to a wall includes: a fixing plate defining an inner gear wheel; a display-mounting bracket configured to vertically tilt relative to the fixing plate, the display-mounting bracket having a proximal extension with an eccentric gear having a locking shaft, the eccentric gear being configured to engage with the inner gear wheel; a spring coupled between the main fixing plate and the locking shaft such that the spring retains a vertical-tilt orientation of the display-mounting bracket relative to the main fixing plate; and an adjustment screw coupled to the lower end of the tension spring, wherein rotation of the adjustment screw expands or compresses the spring.