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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional gallery wrap image displays are thick, making manufacturing and shipping costly, and requiring complex wrapping processes, which can lead to errors and discourage vendors from offering custom images due to increased thickness and shipping requirements.
Innovation Solution
An image display with foldable sections that can be collapsed to a thinner configuration, allowing the image medium to be securely attached without adhesives or staples, using snap fit connections and living hinges for easy assembly and disassembly, enabling efficient shipping and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional gallery wrap image displays are used, then the image medium is securely displayed, but the display becomes thick, increasing manufacturing and shipping costs
Solution Approach 1:
The display is divided into multiple foldable sections (first section, second section, third section) that can be collapsed flat for shipping and assembled at the destination. This segmentation allows the image medium to be securely displayed when assembled while reducing thickness to minimal profile when collapsed, eliminating the trade-off between security and thickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The display structure transitions from a static thick form to a dynamic collapsible form. The foldable sections with hinges enable the display to change its thickness dynamically - thick when assembled for display security, and thin when collapsed for cost-effective shipping, resolving the contradiction between these two states.
2Reliability
If traditional gallery wrap image displays are used, then the image medium is displayed, but complex wrapping processes are required, leading to errors and increased costs
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into pre-formed foldable sections with integrated image medium supports. This segmentation eliminates the need for complex manual wrapping processes, as the image medium is simply placed on the pre-structured support sections which then fold into place, reducing process complexity while maintaining reliable display.
Solution Approach 2:
The foldable sections are designed to self-assemble into the display configuration through simple folding actions. The structure inherently guides the assembly process, reducing the need for complex manual wrapping operations and minimizing errors, while still achieving secure image medium display.
3Reliability
If traditional gallery wrap image displays are used, then the image medium is securely displayed, but shipping and storage space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The foldable sections are designed to nest together when collapsed, with each section fitting within or alongside the others. This nesting arrangement minimizes the volume required for shipping and storage while ensuring that when assembled, the sections provide secure support for the image medium, resolving the contradiction between security and volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The display structure dynamically changes its volume - expanding to a thick secure display form when assembled, and collapsing to a thin minimal volume form for shipping and storage. This dynamic transformation eliminates the permanent volume increase that would otherwise be required to maintain image medium security.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The collapsible design reduces shipping and storage costs, allows for easier handling, and enables vendors to offer custom images with reduced complexity and space requirements, while maintaining a visually appealing assembled thickness similar to traditional gallery wraps.
Implementation Method 1
the first segment is rotatably coupled to the image support by a living hinge
Implementation Method 2
Each first segment may be configured to lock with the image support using a snap fit connection
Data Source
AI summary
Image displays are disclosed. An image display may include an image support and a plurality of foldable sections. Each foldable section may have a first segment rotatably coupled to and configured to lock with the image support and a second segment rotatably coupled to and configured to lock with the first segment. The image display may have an open and an assembled configuration. Display faces of the image support, first segment, and second segment may be co-planar in the collapsed configuration. The display faces image support and the second segment may be perpendicular to the display face of the first segment in the assembled configuration.