Coupled Display Device With Point-Symmetric Fixers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multiscreen display devices incur high costs due to custom-designed fixing panels and ladder-structured assembling mounts, which are costly and complex to manufacture.
Innovation Solution
A coupled display device design featuring point-symmetrically arranged fixers on each display unit, allowing for coupling with a central coupling component that enables easy assembly and disassembly, reducing the need for custom fixing panels and simplifying the assembly process, while maintaining image orientation consistency across units.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If custom fixing panels and ladder-structured assembling mounts are used to couple display units, then the display units can be securely fixed together, but the manufacturing cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling component is designed as a universal structure that can couple multiple display units together without requiring custom fixing panels for each unit. The same coupling component can be used across different display units, eliminating the need for dedicated fixing panels and reducing manufacturing complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the fixing panel and assembling mount functions into a single coupling component. This integration eliminates the need for separate fixing panels and complex ladder-structured mounts, simplifying the overall structure and reducing manufacturing costs while maintaining secure fixation.
2Ease of operation
If display units are designed with dedicated fixing panels for specific placements, then the display units can be properly positioned in the multiscreen configuration, but the design complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling component serves as a universal positioning mechanism that works with all display units regardless of their specific placement in the multiscreen configuration. This universal design eliminates the need for dedicated fixing panels with placement-specific features, reducing design complexity while ensuring proper positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling component incorporates asymmetric features such as protrusions and recesses that enable proper positioning and orientation of display units without requiring symmetric custom fixtures for each placement. This asymmetric design allows the same component to adapt to different configurations.
3Productivity
If a ladder-structured assembling mount is used to couple display units, then the display units can be assembled together, but the manufacturing cost of the mount increases
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling component is segmented into multiple independent coupling sections, each capable of coupling display units individually. This segmentation allows the assembly to be built incrementally without requiring a complex ladder-structured mount, reducing manufacturing costs while maintaining assembly capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functions of the ladder-structured mount into the coupling components themselves. Each coupling component provides both structural support and coupling functionality, eliminating the need for a separate complex mounting structure and reducing overall manufacturing costs.
Data Source
AI summary
A coupled display device includes display units, and a coupling component, retaining components. The display units are arranged adjacent to each other. The display units include fixers. The coupling component is disposed astride the display units to couple the display units together. The retaining components are fixed to the fixers to retain the display units and the coupling component. In the coupled display device, the fixers are point symmetric to each other with a point of symmetry at a center of a corresponding one of the display units.