Backside Bezel Bracket Assembly for Touch-Clear Display Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Display devices with bezels that wrap around the front surface face challenges in accommodating manufacturing variations, leading to a less pleasing appearance, increased form factor, and interference with user interactions, especially in large or heavy devices where the bezel can obstruct touch gestures and create physical barriers between adjacent displays.
Innovation Solution
The use of mounting brackets with tongues and pockets allows for three-dimensional positioning of the bezel relative to the display unit, enabling secure attachment without introducing internal stresses, allowing for variations in component dimensions and positions, and avoiding protrusion above the display surface by attaching the bezel to the backside, thus maintaining a clean user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If the bezel wraps around the front surface of the display unit, then the display device provides protection and structural support, but it obstructs user interactions and creates physical barriers between adjacent displays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the protective function of the bezel from the front surface wrapping configuration and relocates it to a backside mounting configuration. The bezel is repositioned to mount on the backside of the display unit, removing the obstruction to user interactions while preserving the protective and structural support functions through alternative mounting geometry
2Stability of the object's composition
If the bezel is rigidly attached to the display unit, then structural stability is improved, but manufacturing variations cause internal stresses and misalignment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic adjustment capability through the mounting bracket system. The bracket includes adjustable elements that allow the bezel position to be fine-tuned after assembly, enabling compensation for manufacturing variations. This dynamic adjustment mechanism maintains structural stability while accommodating tolerances in display unit and bezel dimensions
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs parameter changes by providing adjustable mounting parameters such as screw hole positions, bracket angles, and bezel spacing. These adjustable parameters allow the assembly to adapt to manufacturing variations, maintaining proper alignment and reducing internal stresses while preserving structural stability
3Shape
If the bezel protrudes above the display surface, then visibility is improved, but it interferes with touch gestures and user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the conventional bezel mounting approach by moving the bezel from a front-surface protruding position to a backside-mounted position. This inversion eliminates the interference with touch gestures while maintaining the protective and structural functions. The bezel remains visible for its intended purpose but does not obstruct the user interface
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration ensures a secure, stress-free attachment of the bezel that accommodates manufacturing variations, reduces the active area obstruction, and maintains a consistent user interface across tiled displays, enhancing both aesthetics and usability.
Implementation Method 1
An adhesive binds the at least one tongue to at least one surface of the at least one pocket, thereby coupling the bezel to the display unit via the mounting bracket
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AI summary
Examples are disclosed that relate to display devices and mounting brackets for securing a bezel to a display device. In one example, a display device comprises a display unit and a bezel comprising at least one pocket. The display device comprises a mounting bracket comprising a display unit attachment portion affixed to the display unit and at least one tongue that extends at least partially into the at least one pocket. Adhesive binds the at least one tongue to at least one surface of the at least one pocket, thereby coupling the bezel to the display unit via the mounting bracket.