Bendable Backplate Structure with Magnetic Folding Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional display devices are limited by their inability to bend, making them inconvenient to carry and restrict the size of the display, leading to user fatigue due to smaller screen sizes.
Innovation Solution
A bendable backplate structure with a supporting plate, a bendable module featuring a flexible covering portion and magnets, allowing the display panel to fold and unfold, utilizing magnetic attraction and flexible materials for easy bending and compact storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional display devices use small sized screens for easy carrying, then portability is improved, but display quality and user comfort deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The backplate is designed as a flexible structure that can dynamically change its configuration between a flat extended state (providing large display area) and a folded compact state (improving portability). The bendable module with flexible covering portion and magnets enables this dynamic transformation, allowing the display device to adapt between these two states based on usage needs.
2Stability of the object's composition
If conventional display devices are designed with rigid structures, then structural stability is improved, but bending capability and portability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The backplate is segmented into multiple functional components: a supporting plate, a bendable module with flexible covering portion, and magnets. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function - the supporting plate provides structural stability, while the flexible covering portion and magnets enable bending capability, resolving the contradiction between stability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The backplate incorporates a flexible covering portion made of flexible material that can bend without breaking. This flexible shell structure replaces the traditional rigid backplate, enabling the display device to be folded while maintaining structural integrity and stability during both folded and extended states.
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
Enables the display device to be conveniently carried in a compact form while maintaining a larger display size, reducing user fatigue by allowing the panel to fold up to 180 degrees, overcoming the limitations of traditional non-bendable display devices.
Implementation Method 1
a magnet is accommodated in the auxiliary shaft portion, wherein the magnet in the auxiliary shaft portion is movable to the bendable module and is magnetically attracted to the magnet in the bendable module
Implementation Method 2
a bendable module disposed in the shaft channel and comprising a flexible covering portion
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AI summary
A bendable backplate structure is configured to support a display panel and includes a supporting plate including at least a shaft channel extending to opposite sides of the supporting plate. A surface of the supporting plate is attached with the display panel. A bendable module disposed in the shaft channel includes a flexible covering portion and at least a magnet accommodated in and along the covering portion. The backplate structure and the display panel are foldable through the bendable module in a direction toward the display panel.