U-Shaped Air Column Packaging Device for Liquid Crystal Modules
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional packaging devices for liquid crystal modules and backlight modules have complex structures, high costs, and inadequate cushioning performance, making them inefficient for protecting these components during transportation and limiting their recyclability.
Innovation Solution
A packaging device utilizing interconnected cushioning air columns and retention boards with a U-shaped configuration, secured by double-sided adhesive tapes, provides effective cushioning and positioning for liquid crystal or backlight modules, offering a simple structure and low-cost solution with potential for repeated use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional foam cushioning materials are used, then cushioning performance is provided, but structure becomes complicated and cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the physical state of the cushioning material from solid foam to air-filled columns, transforming the cushioning mechanism from material deformation to air compression and expansion. This parameter change simplifies the overall structure while maintaining cushioning performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses thin film materials to construct the cushioning air columns and retention boards, replacing bulky foam structures. The flexible thin films can deform to absorb shock while maintaining a compact and simple structure.
2Reliability
If foam cushioning materials are used, then cushioning is achieved, but cost increases due to material price
Solution Approach 1:
The invention replaces expensive foam materials with cheaper thin film materials that can be easily manufactured and disposed of after use, significantly reducing the cost of the cushioning device.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses air-filled columns instead of solid foam materials, utilizing pneumatic principles to achieve cushioning with much lower material costs compared to conventional foam-based solutions.
3Reliability
If foam cushioning materials are compressed during transportation, then external force is cushioned, but the material cannot spring back leading to deterioration of cushioning performance
Solution Approach 1:
The air-filled cushioning columns can continuously restore their original shape after compression by allowing air to re-enter the collapsed regions, enabling repeated use without deterioration of cushioning performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces dynamic air flow characteristics to the cushioning system, allowing the air columns to expand and contract in response to external forces, providing sustained cushioning performance over multiple uses unlike static foam materials.
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
The device effectively protects modules from external forces by maintaining cushioning performance over multiple uses, reducing costs and simplifying the packaging process while ensuring reliable protection during shipping and storage.
Implementation Method 1
the liquid crystal module or the backlight module is acted upon by an external force to compress the package cushioning device, which undergoes elastic deformation to cushion the external force
Implementation Method 2
the liquid crystal module or the backlight module is acted upon by an external force to compress the package cushioning device, which undergoes elastic deformation to cushion the external force
Implementation Method 3
The two ends of the retention board are bonded in the first and second slots by double-sided adhesive tapes
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention provides a module packaging device, which includes a cushioning device and a plurality of retention boards mounted to the cushioning device. The cushioning device includes a plurality of interconnected cushioning air columns of which every two adjacent ones of the cushioning air columns form a receiving channel. The retention boards are respectively mounted in the receiving channels. Modules are each positioned on each of the cushioning air columns between two of the retention boards. The module packaging device uses a cushioning device that is composed of cushioning air columns and the cushioning device, which is of a U-shaped, is positioned in a package box to provide an effect of cushioning and protection to opposite ends and bottom of the liquid crystal modules or the backlight modules received therein to protect the liquid crystal modules or the backlight modules from damages caused by external forces.