Collage frame with variable mount and configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current collage frames offer limited mounting and configuration options, restricting their versatility in displaying multiple display items.

Innovation Solution

A hinged collage frame design that allows 180-degree folding, enabling mounting on outside or inside corner walls, standing alone, or laying flat, with symmetric construction and mitred edges for adjustable orientation and size variations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a collage frame is designed with fixed mounting and configuration, then the manufacturing and installation are simple, but the versatility and adaptability to different wall types are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemounting configuration versatilityVSAvoidframe structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The collage frame is divided into multiple separable components including left and right frame portions that can be independently positioned and configured. This segmentation allows the frame to be assembled in different arrangements to suit various wall types and orientations, thereby improving adaptability without requiring a completely different design for each application.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The frame incorporates adjustable and reconfigurable elements that allow users to dynamically change the mounting configuration. The left and right frame portions can be positioned at different heights and orientations, enabling the same frame structure to adapt to flat walls, corner walls, and various mounting scenarios, thus resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If a collage frame uses standardized flat mounting, then the manufacturing is simple, but the ability to display on different wall orientations is restricted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvewall orientation compatibilityVSAvoidframe production complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The collage frame is designed as a universal mounting system that can function on multiple wall orientations including flat walls, outside corners, and inside corners. The standardized components with adjustable positioning mechanisms allow a single frame design to serve multiple wall types, eliminating the need to manufacture different frame variants for different orientations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The frame design incorporates vertical adjustment capability, allowing the left and right frame portions to be positioned at different heights. This dimensional flexibility enables the frame to adapt to various wall orientations and configurations, transforming a two-dimensional flat mounting concept into a three-dimensional adaptable structure that works on diverse wall surfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11564511B2Collage frame with variable mount and configuration

Publication Date: 2023.01.31 VALLATINI JOSEPH LEO

AI summary

A hinged collage frame has hinge areas at the top and bottom, formed by curved edges. The hinging allows the collage frame to hinged to either an inner wall surface corner and outer wall corner or to stand up straight, or to lie flat. The hinging is carried out by having edges which are curved, where one curved convex edge moves relative to another curved concave edge.