Curved Display Track for User-Facing Screen Elevation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display systems lack the ability to adjust the elevation angle of flat screen displays while maintaining a user-facing orientation, and they often require manual operation, limiting convenience and flexibility.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable display track system comprising a track and a roller car, where the roller car is moved along the track using a motorized lifting cable, allowing the flat screen display to be raised or lowered while maintaining a user-facing orientation, and can be controlled remotely via a smart device through a wireless interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the display is raised or lowered along a straight vertical track, then the display's vertical position is adjusted, but the elevation angle cannot be adjusted to maintain user-facing orientation
Solution Approach 1:
The track is configured as a curved path rather than a straight vertical line. The curve is specifically designed so that as the roller car moves along the track, the display naturally changes its elevation angle while being raised or lowered, maintaining optimal viewing orientation throughout the movement range.
2Device complexity
If manual operation is used to adjust the display, then the system structure is simple, but the convenience and flexibility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The manual mechanical adjustment system is replaced with an automated motorized system. A motorized spool winds and unwinds a lifting cable to automatically raise and lower the roller car along the curved track, eliminating the need for manual operation while maintaining system simplicity.
3Device complexity
If the display is raised without angle adjustment, then the lifting mechanism is simple, but the display does not continue to point towards the user
Solution Approach 1:
The curved track geometry is specifically designed to compensate for the fixed roller car orientation. As the roller car travels along the curved path during elevation or lowering, the track's curvature automatically adjusts the display's elevation angle to maintain proper viewing orientation toward the user throughout the entire range of motion.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables convenient and flexible adjustment of the display's elevation angle, ensuring it remains user-facing as it is raised or lowered, with remote control capabilities for enhanced usability.
Implementation Method 1
a motorized spool that winds and unwinds a lifting cable
Implementation Method 2
a curved track mounted between a wall and a ceiling such that the elevation angle of the flat screen display is lowered as the display is raised
Data Source
AI summary
The adjustable display track system comprises a track and a roller car. The adjustable display track system may be adapted to move a flat screen display that is coupled to the roller car along the track between a lowered position and a raised position. The adjustable display track system may be adapted to lower an elevation angle of the flat screen display as the roller car is raised such that the flat screen display continues to point towards a user. Motion of the roller car may be controlled remotely from a smart device.