Adhesive Panel Case for Portable Electronic Device Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Portable electronic devices are susceptible to damage due to their portability, and existing solutions do not adequately protect them from damage during use or storage.
Innovation Solution
A case accessory designed to enclose and protect portable electronic devices, featuring a pivotally coupled base and support panel with an adhesive panel and access apertures, allowing for elevated viewing and secure storage while maintaining accessibility to device ports and buttons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a case encloses the device for protection, then damage resistance is improved, but accessibility to device ports and buttons deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The case is divided into multiple panels (front panel, back panel, side panels) with specific apertures and openings segmented at strategic locations. This segmentation allows protective enclosure while maintaining access to device ports and buttons through the apertures, resolving the contradiction between protection and accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The case acts as an intermediary structure between the device and the external environment. It provides protection while incorporating apertures and openings that mediate access to device functions, allowing users to interact with the device through the case rather than removing it.
2Ease of operation
If a case provides elevated viewing position, then viewing comfort is improved, but device stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The case incorporates a pivotally coupled support panel that can dynamically adjust between different positions (elevated viewing position and flat storage position). This dynamic capability allows the case to provide elevated viewing comfort when needed while maintaining stability in storage configuration, resolving the contradiction between viewing comfort and stability.
3Reliability
If adhesive panel secures device firmly, then device retention is improved, but device removal flexibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive panel is designed to be removable and reusable. It can be discarded from one case and recovered for use in another case or on different surfaces. This allows firm device retention when attached while maintaining flexibility for removal and repositioning, resolving the contradiction between retention reliability and removal flexibility.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The case effectively protects the device from scratches and damage by providing a secure, elevated viewing position and storage configuration, while ensuring easy access to device functions.
Implementation Method 1
an adhesive panel secured to an interior surface of the support panel to engage a back side of the portable electronic device
Data Source
AI summary
Case accessories for portable electronic devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a case accessory may include a base configured to sit on a working surface, a support coupled to the base and configured to support a portable electronic device in an elevated position, and an adhesive panel coupled to the support and configured to secure the portable electronic device.