Bezel Mounting Bracket With Tongue-Pocket Tolerance 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, as well as difficulties in secure attachment without introducing internal stresses.
Innovation Solution
The use of mounting brackets with tongues and pockets allows for three-dimensional positioning and secure attachment of the bezel to the display unit, enabling adjustments for variations in component dimensions while avoiding protrusions that interfere with user interactions and reducing internal stresses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If the bezel wraps around the front surface of the display device, then the bezel provides protection and structural support, but it increases the form factor and interferes with user interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket extends the attachment interface into the depth dimension by featuring a tongue that protrudes from the rear of the bezel and engages with a corresponding pocket in the display unit. This three-dimensional positioning allows the bezel to wrap around the front surface for protection while the tongue-pocket mechanism accommodates dimensional variations and prevents protrusions that would interfere with user interactions.
2Strength
If the bezel wraps around the front surface, then structural support is improved, but manufacturing variations lead to less pleasing appearance and increased form factor
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket incorporates a tongue with a planar surface angled with respect to the display unit attachment portion, enabling three-dimensional positioning that dynamically adjusts to manufacturing variations. This angular configuration allows the bezel to be securely attached while accommodating dimensional tolerances, ensuring consistent appearance across manufactured units.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional mounting methods are used, then assembly is simple, but internal stresses are introduced and attachment security is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket features a tongue that nests within a pocket formed in the display unit, creating a nested attachment structure. The tongue extends at least partially into the pocket and is secured via adhesive applied to the planar surface of the tongue, which is angled with respect to the attachment portion. This nested configuration provides secure attachment while accommodating dimensional variations without introducing internal stresses.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration ensures a secure, aesthetically pleasing attachment of the bezel to the display device, maintaining user interaction integrity and accommodating dimensional variations without compromising structural integrity.
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.
Data Source
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.