Adjustable Support Board for Mobile Device Bag

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current bag designs for mobile devices do not adequately address the issue of user posture during prolonged use, leading to muscle fatigue, poor posture, and potential health issues such as short-sightedness, herniated discs, and neck creases, while also failing to provide sufficient convenience and functionality.

Innovation Solution

A bag with an adjustable support board featuring a first multi-position fixing unit on the bag's lateral sides and a second multi-position fixing unit on the support board, combined using a support arm, allowing for adjustable positioning and tilting of the support board to promote proper posture and additional functions like a bookrest.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a mobile device is held with one or two hands for prolonged use, then the device can be used portably, but muscle fatigue of the hands and arms occurs and posture deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveportabilityVSAvoidmuscle fatigue and poor posture
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a support board as an intermediary device between the user and the mobile device. The support board provides a stable surface to place the mobile device on, eliminating the need to hold it with hands. This mediator structure transfers the support function from the user's muscles to the bag's structural component, resolving the muscle fatigue problem while maintaining portability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The support board is designed with adjustable and foldable features, allowing it to dynamically change between a supportive extended position and a compact folded position. This dynamic capability enables the board to provide posture support during use while minimizing space occupation during transport, addressing both the ease of operation and harmful factors contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the support board is made adjustable with multi-position fixing units, then proper posture can be maintained, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveposture maintenanceVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The support board system is segmented into multiple independent components: the support board itself, the support arm, the first multi-position fixing unit attached to the bag, and the second multi-position fixing unit attached to the board. This segmentation allows each component to perform a specific function (support, positioning, fixing) independently, making the overall complex system manageable and enabling posture adjustment without requiring an overly integrated complicated structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9907373B2Bag for a mobile device user with an adjustable support board
Publication Date: 2018.03.06 HAN MIN HYUNG
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AI summary

The present invention dicloses a bag for a mobile user.A bag for a mobile device user according to the present invention comprises a body having a front side, a back side, lateral sides, a top side, and a bottom side; a support board being placed on the front side; a first multi-position fixing unit being pivotally provided to the lateral sides or the front side; a second multi-position fixing unit being provided to both sides, a bottom side, or an outer side of the support board, and being pivotally combined with the support board; and a support arm in which one end of the support arm is pivotally combined with the first multi-position fixing unit, while the other end of the support arm is pivotally combined with the second multi-position fixing unit, wherein a position of the second multi-position fixing unit is adjusted by a rotational movement of the first multi-position fixing unit, and a tilting angle of the support board is adjusted by a rotational movement of the second multi-position fixing unit.