Display Assembly Annular Support for Narrow Watch Bezels
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Solution Overview
Problem
The wide black side frame on the display surface of electronic devices, such as smartwatches, reduces the display area and affects user experience due to the need for a wider bonding surface to ensure airtightness and connection strength, particularly around the bending region of the display screen.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device design featuring a light-transmitting cover plate with a first and second region, a display screen with a bending region, and a potting portion and support forming an annular structure around the display region, where the potting portion wraps the bending region, and the support is fixedly connected to the cover plate, allowing the middle frame to connect to the annular structure instead of the cover plate directly, thus maintaining connection strength and airtightness without increasing the bonding surface width.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the bonding surface width is increased to ensure airtightness and connection strength, then the connection reliability is improved, but the display area is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transfers the bonding function from the light-transmitting cover plate to the annular structure formed by the support and potting portion, effectively moving the bonding surface to a different spatial dimension. The middle frame connects to the annular structure rather than directly to the cover plate, allowing the bonding surface to be located away from the display region while still ensuring connection strength and airtightness.
Solution Approach 2:
The annular structure formed by the support and potting portion acts as an intermediary between the middle frame and the light-transmitting cover plate. This intermediary structure provides the necessary bonding surface for the middle frame while protecting the bending region of the display screen, thereby resolving the conflict between connection strength and display area.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the bonding surface width is increased to prevent extrusion of the bending region, then the structural stability is improved, but the black side frame width is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent relocates the bonding surface to the annular structure formed by the support and potting portion, which is positioned away from the light-transmitting cover plate. This dimensional relocation allows the bonding surface to provide structural stability without increasing the width of the black side frame on the display surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the bonding function from the light-transmitting cover plate and assigns it to the annular structure formed by the support and potting portion. This segmentation allows the bonding surface to be positioned independently of the display region, maintaining structural stability while minimizing the black side frame width.
3Reliability
If the bonding surface width is increased to ensure connection strength, then the airtightness is improved, but the display region area is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The annular structure formed by the support and potting portion serves as an intermediary that provides the necessary bonding surface for ensuring airtightness between the middle frame and the display assembly. This intermediary structure allows the bonding surface to be positioned away from the display region, maintaining airtightness while preserving display region area.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the bonding surface to a different spatial dimension by positioning it on the annular structure formed by the support and potting portion, which is located away from the light-transmitting cover plate. This dimensional change allows the bonding surface to ensure airtightness without encroaching on the display region area.
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AI summary
This application provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a light-transmitting cover plate, a display screen, a potting portion, and a support. The light-transmitting cover plate has a first region and a second region, and the first region is disposed around the second region. The display screen is disposed on a side of the light-transmitting cover plate, the display screen includes a display region and a bending region, the display region is attached to the second region, and a vertical projection of the bending region on the light-transmitting cover plate is located in the first region. The potting portion includes the bending region. The support and the potting portion form an annular structure, the annular structure is disposed around the display region, and both the support and the potting portion are fixedly connected to the first region.