Adjustable Reversible L-Bracket for Camera Feature Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing camera mounting assemblies, such as L-brackets, are often cumbersome and device-specific, leading to high costs and limited availability, as they obstruct camera features and require multiple brackets for different devices, compromising stability and accessibility.
Innovation Solution
A versatile mounting assembly with a C-shaped arm and adjustable attachment elements, allowing the arm's opening to be positioned relative to the base plate, providing access to camera features and accommodating various device sizes, while ensuring stability and compatibility with multiple supports.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional L-bracket is designed to cradle a specific device, then the device can be securely mounted, but the bracket obstructs camera features such as connection ports, battery door, and flip-up screen
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting assembly is divided into separate functional components: a base plate for device attachment and an arm portion with opening for feature access. This segmentation allows the device to be securely mounted while maintaining access to camera features through the opening in the arm portion.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is positioned within the C-shaped opening of the arm portion, creating a nested configuration where the device fits into the bracket structure. This nesting provides secure mounting while the opening allows access to features on the device.
2Reliability
If L-brackets are designed specifically for each camera device, then optimal mounting is achieved, but cost increases and availability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The base plate is designed with a universal connector that can accommodate multiple different camera devices. This universal design allows a single bracket model to serve multiple devices, reducing manufacturing costs and increasing availability while maintaining reliable mounting through the standardized connector interface.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple L-brackets are carried for different devices, then each device can be properly mounted, but the complexity and number of components increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting assembly incorporates a universal connector on the base plate that can interface with multiple different camera device types. This universality allows a single bracket design to accommodate various devices, reducing the number of different bracket models needed while maintaining adaptability to different devices.
4Strength
If the arm portion of the L-bracket is solid without opening, then structural strength is maximized, but access to device features is blocked
Solution Approach 1:
The arm portion is segmented with an opening that allows access to device features while maintaining structural integrity. The opening is positioned and sized to provide necessary access without significantly compromising the overall strength of the arm portion.
Solution Approach 2:
The arm portion has different properties in different locations: the majority of the arm maintains solid construction for strength, while a specific local region contains an opening for feature access. This local modification provides the necessary functionality without undermining overall structural strength.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a mounting assembly comprising: a base against which the photographic device is placeable in use, the base comprising an engagement structure arranged in use to provide engagement of the base with the support; a connector engaged with the base in use and arranged in use to removably connect to the photographic device; and an extension plate securable to the base in a plurality of positions and removably securable to a side element, an amount of overlap of the extension plate and base being determined by the position in which the extension plate is secured to the base, the position of the side element relative to the base thereby being movable.