Curve Control Assembly for Dynamic Display Panel Curvature Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices with curved panels lack the ability to easily adjust their curvature, limiting user experience in terms of stereoscopic effect and immersion.

Innovation Solution

A display device with a curve control assembly comprising first and second rails and rolling units, allowing the display panel to change curvature by moving along these rails, with a back cover maintaining a curved shape to adjust the display panel's curvature.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a curved display panel is used to provide improved stereoscopic effect and immersion, then the visual experience is enhanced, but the curvature cannot be easily adjusted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecurvature adjustment capabilityVSAvoiddifficulty to change curvature
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel's curvature is made dynamically adjustable through a curve control assembly that can transition the panel between different curved states and a flat state. The assembly includes driving components that apply force to change the panel's bending degree, allowing users to switch between curvature configurations based on viewing preferences or application requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The curvature parameter of the display panel is made changeable through the curve control assembly. By adjusting the bending degree of the display panel within a specific range, the system allows continuous or discrete changes in curvature radius, enabling adaptation to different viewing conditions while maintaining structural integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the display panel is made curvable to enable curvature adjustment, then adaptability is improved, but structural stability and rigidity maintenance become more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecurvature adjustabilityVSAvoidstructural stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The curve control assembly provides dynamic support to the display panel during curvature transitions. By actively controlling the bending process through driving components, the system maintains structural stability throughout the adjustment range, preventing unwanted deformations or collapses when the panel is in intermediate states between flat and curved configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The display panel utilizes a flexible construction that allows bending within a controlled range while maintaining structural integrity. The flexible design enables the panel to achieve desired curvature states without compromising its compositional stability, allowing reversible transitions between flat and curved states.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS9983428B2Display device including curve control assembly and display panel curvable thereby
Publication Date: 2018.05.29 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A display device includes a display panel, a backlight assembly, a back cover and a curve control assembly. The back cover has a curved shape and faces the display panel with the backlight assembly therebetween to cover a back surface of the backlight assembly. The curve control assembly is between the backlight assembly and the back cover to adjust a curved degree of the display panel. The curve control assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, and a rolling unit. The first rail is coupled to the back surface of the backlight assembly, and the second rail is coupled to the back cover to face the first rail. The rolling unit is commonly connected to each of the first rail and the second rail and is movable along the first and second rails to move the display panel in directions toward and away from the back cover.