Curved Flexible Display Module Bracket Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic devices lack an intuitive user interface that provides excellent acknowledgment quality and grip sense, particularly in terms of portability and aesthetics, as they often have flat displays that do not effectively utilize the side and rear surfaces for user interaction.

Innovation Solution

The integration of a curved flexible display module that extends to the side and rear surfaces of the device, supported by a bracket, allowing for intuitive user interaction through touch gestures and providing additional functionality such as volume control, zooming, and application execution based on touch events.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a flat display module is used, then the device has a simple structure and easy manufacturing, but the user interface is not intuitive and grip sense is poor

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interface intuitivenessVSAvoiddisplay module structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display module is designed with a curved surface instead of a flat surface, extending from the front surface to the side surface of the device. This curvature allows the display to wrap around corners, providing an extended user interface that improves grip sense and acknowledgment quality while maintaining visual appeal and interactivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

2Area of stationary object

If the display module is extended to side and rear surfaces, then the user interface area is increased and grip sense is improved, but the device becomes more complex and harder to manufacture

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay surface areaVSAvoiddisplay module fabrication

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

3Ease of operation

If a curved flexible display module is used, then the device achieves excellent grip sense and acknowledgment quality, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegrip senseVSAvoidcurvature consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display module utilizes a flexible display technology that can be bent and curved while maintaining its functional integrity. This flexibility allows the display to conform to the device's curved surfaces without requiring extremely high manufacturing precision, as the flexible nature of the display material itself accommodates variations in curvature

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS9939844B2Electronic device with curved display module and operating method thereof

Publication Date: 2018.04.10 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic device includes a flexible display module including a curvature, and a bracket supporting the flexible display module, wherein the bracket includes at least a part formed with a curvature corresponding to the curvature of the flexible display module.