Bent Back Cover With Elastic Molding Part For Display Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display devices face issues with foreign matter infiltration and damage due to gaps between the display panel and the support structure, which affect the device's appearance and functionality, and require additional components for rigidity and heat dissipation.
Innovation Solution
A display device with a back cover featuring a bent structure and an elastic material molding part that encloses a vertical extension portion, including uneven surfaces and through holes to enhance bonding and prevent separation, along with a metal inner plate for increased rigidity and heat dissipation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a gap is formed between the display panel and the support structure for expansion and assembly convenience, then ease of operation is improved, but foreign matter infiltration and damage to the display panel occur
Solution Approach 1:
A molding part made of elastic material is introduced as an intermediary component between the display panel and the back cover. This molding part fills the gap that necessarily exists for assembly convenience, preventing foreign matter infiltration while allowing the display panel to expand and contract. The elastic material acts as a mediator that maintains both assembly ease and protection against contamination.
2Strength
If the back cover is made rigid for structural support, then strength is improved, but heat dissipation capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The back cover is constructed using a composite structure combining a rigid base material for structural support with thermally conductive materials or structures integrated into it. This composite construction allows the back cover to maintain its strength and rigidity for structural support while simultaneously providing effective heat dissipation pathways for the display panel.
3Strength
If additional components are added to the back cover for rigidity and heat dissipation, then strength and heat dissipation are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The back cover is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously provides structural support, heat dissipation, and protection against foreign matter infiltration. By integrating multiple functions into a single component rather than adding separate components for each function, the design maintains strength and heat dissipation capabilities while minimizing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The functions of structural support, heat dissipation, and gap filling are merged into the back cover assembly. The rigid portion provides structural support and mounting surfaces, while the integrated molding part provides gap filling and foreign matter protection. This merging of functions reduces the total number of components while achieving all necessary objectives.
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 configuration minimizes the border gap, prevents foreign matter infiltration, increases bonding force, enhances rigidity, and improves heat dissipation, resulting in a more robust and aesthetically pleasing display device.
Implementation Method 1
a molding part made of an elastic material which surrounds a vertical extension portion of the back cover
Implementation Method 2
an inner plate of a metal material disposed on the inner surface of a horizontal portion of the back cover
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed aspects relate to a display device. By forming a back cover, which is the support structure constituting the display device, in a bent structure and forming a molding part made of an elastic material to enclose the vertical extension portion, a border gap, which is a clearance between the side surfaces of the display panel and the side surface support structure, can be minimized to maintain an excellent external appearance of the display device, and to prevent infiltration of foreign matter and damage of the display panel, which may be caused by the gap between the display panel and the support structure. By disposing a metal inner plate on the inner surface of the horizontal portion of the back cover, the rigidity of the back cover can be increased, the thickness of the back cover can be decreased, and heat generated from the display panel and the like can be smoothly dissipated.