Adjustable Touch Display Height via Elastic Frame
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing touch display modules often have a gap between the touch panel and the casing, causing user discomfort due to the relative height mismatch, which is difficult to adjust and affects the size and cost of the device.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device design that includes a touch display module, a frame with elastic pieces, and adjustable screws to adjust the relative height between the touch display module and the casing, ensuring the upper surfaces are coplanar, using a combination of fasteners and screwing portions to secure the frame to the casing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the touch panel size is made larger than the display panel to provide better touch sensing feeling, then the touch sensing performance is improved, but the cost and size of the touch panel become difficult to reduce
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate components: display panel, touch panel, and casing, which can be independently sized and manufactured. The touch panel can extend beyond the display panel boundaries while the casing provides the outer structure, allowing optimized touch sensing area without unnecessarily increasing overall device size or cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The display panel is nested within the touch panel, which in turn is nested within the casing structure. This hierarchical nesting allows the touch panel to be larger than the display panel for better touch sensing, while the casing contains the overall assembly to control device dimensions and cost.
2Ease of manufacture
If the touch panel is adhered to the display panel and then assembled to the casing, then the assembly process is simplified, but a gap is formed at the interface between the touch panel and the casing causing user discomfort
Solution Approach 1:
The elastic piece introduces dynamic adjustment capability to the assembly. The elastic piece can be compressed or extended to accommodate height differences between the touch panel and casing, allowing the system to adapt to manufacturing tolerances while maintaining a flush appearance that ensures user comfort.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic piece acts as an intermediary element between the touch panel assembly and the casing. It mediates the height difference issue by providing adjustable compression, allowing both components to be connected while eliminating the gap that would cause user discomfort at the interface.
3Ease of manufacture
If the relative height between the touch display module and the casing is fixed, then the manufacturing process is simpler, but the gap between the surfaces cannot be eliminated affecting user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The fixing structure incorporates an elastic piece that provides dynamic height adjustment capability. This allows the relative height between the touch display module and casing to be adjusted within a range, enabling elimination of gaps for better user experience while maintaining relatively simple manufacturing processes through the use of standard elastic components.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design allows for flexible adjustment of the relative height, eliminating the gap between the touch display module and the casing, enhancing user comfort and reducing the size and cost of the device by ensuring the touch panel and casing surfaces are approximately coplanar.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of elastic pieces (130) extended from the sidewall (124)... The depth of the adjusted screws screwed in the casing can be adjusted to relax or press the elastic piece extended from the frame thereby adjusting the relative height between the touch display module and the casing
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is disclosed, which includes a touch display module, a frame for placing the touch display module, plural elastic pieces extended from a sidewall of the frame, a casing, a fastener, and plural adjusting screws. The fastener fastens the frame to the casing. The adjusting screws are inserted in the elastic pieces and are screwed in the casing. The depth of the adjusting screws screwed in the casing can be adjusted for adjusting a relative height between the touch display module and the casing.