Detachable Display Interface Layout for Space-Saving Interaction Modules

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display systems face challenges with external devices occupying large spaces and inconvenient movement due to relative movement, leading to inefficiencies in space utilization and mobility.

Innovation Solution

A display system design featuring a housing with a display device and a detachable interface for interaction devices, allowing the interaction device to maintain a positional relationship with the display device, thus minimizing space occupation and facilitating easy movement and detachment for maintenance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the display system is connected to an external device, then data transmission and interaction functionality are improved, but the occupied space increases and movement convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The external device is segmented into a separable interaction device that can be detached from the display system. The interaction device includes an interaction member (camera, microphone, speaker, or printer) and a second interface that can be detachably connected to the first interface on the display system, allowing the system to be divided into modular components that can be separated when not in use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The connection between the display system and interaction device is made dynamic rather than fixed. The second interface is configured to be detachably connected to the first interface, enabling the interaction device to be connected when interaction functionality is needed and detached when space reduction or movement is required, making the system adaptable to different usage scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the external device is connected to the display system, then interaction capability is improved, but movement convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system is segmented into a display system and a separable interaction device that can be independently moved. The interaction device with its interaction member and second interface can be detached from the first interface on the display system, allowing either component to be moved separately without being constrained by a fixed connection, thereby improving movement convenience while maintaining interaction capability when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The static connection between the display system and external device is replaced with a dynamic detachable connection. The second interface can be connected to or disconnected from the first interface as needed, enabling the interaction device to be easily attached when interaction is required and detached for convenient movement or storage, thus resolving the contradiction between interaction capability and movement ease.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Area of stationary object

If the interaction device is detachably connected to the display system, then space utilization is improved, but positional stability may worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into a display system and a separable interaction device that can be detached when not in use. This segmentation allows the interaction device to be connected to the first interface on the display system when interaction functionality is needed, optimizing space utilization by allowing separate storage when detached, while maintaining stable connection during use through the interface design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12572167B2Display device and peripheral component interfaces
Publication Date: 2026.03.10
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AI summary

A display system includes a housing, a display device provided at the housing and exposed from a first side of the housing, a first interface provided at a second side of the housing different from the first side of the housing, and configured to transmit data, and an interaction device. The interaction device includes an interaction member configured to respond to and/or generate interaction data, and a second interface configured to be detachably connected to the first interface and transmit the data. After the second interface is connected to the first interface, the interaction device is configured to maintain a positional relationship with the display device.