Display Board Mounting Member with Removable Accessory Gaps

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display board assemblies often suffer from permanent damage when accessories are mounted using conventional methods like screws or adhesives, and different mounts are required for various accessories, leading to inefficiency and compatibility issues.

Innovation Solution

A display board assembly featuring a mounting member with gaps and slots that allows for the removable attachment of accessories, enabling universal compatibility and reducing damage by using U-shaped clips that snap-fit into slots along the edges of the board, allowing accessories to be positioned in multiple configurations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If conventional mounting methods (screws, nails, adhesives) are used to attach accessories to display boards, then accessories can be securely mounted, but permanent damage is caused to the board

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemounting strengthVSAvoidpermanent damage to board

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting member is divided into separate components: a board-engaging portion that inserts into slots along the board edge, and an accessory-mounting portion that extends outward. This segmentation allows the mounting function to be separated from the board surface, preventing damage while maintaining secure attachment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting member acts as an intermediary component between the display board and the accessory. Instead of directly fastening accessories to the board surface, the mounting member interfaces with slots in the board edge and provides a mounting surface for accessories, thereby preventing direct damage to the board while ensuring secure attachment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If different types of mounts are used for different accessories, then each accessory can be properly mounted, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessory compatibilityVSAvoidnumber of mounting types

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting member is designed as a universal component that can accommodate multiple types of accessories through a single standardized interface. The board-engaging portion inserts into standard slots along the board edge, while the accessory-mounting portion provides a standardized surface that can secure various accessories, eliminating the need for different mount types for different accessories.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9162516B2Display board assembly

Publication Date: 2015.10.20 ACCO BRANDS CORP

AI summary

A display board assembly includes a display board having a planar surface and an edge extending along at least a portion of the planar surface. The display board assembly also includes a mounting member coupled to the display board. The mounting member defines a first gap adjacent the planar surface of the display board and a second gap adjacent the edge of the display board. The display board assembly further includes a display board accessory including a projection. The display board accessory is removably coupled to the mounting member in one of a first position, in which the projection is received in the first gap, and a second position, in which the projection is received in the second gap.