Connection Bracket With Position Adjustment for Seamless Display Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display apparatuses face challenges in easily adjusting the position of display units, step differences between units, and arranging units in various configurations.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus with a connection bracket that includes a position adjusting device, allowing for the adjustment of display unit positions through a mechanism that converts rotational movement into linear movement, utilizing guide screws, protruding guide portions, and adjustment screws to facilitate sliding and locking mechanisms for precise positioning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If display units are fixed in position for structural stability, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates because position adjustment becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidposition adjustment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The connection bracket incorporates a position adjusting device with guide screws and adjustment screws that enable dynamic repositioning of display units. The guide screws convert rotational movement into linear movement, allowing the display units to be adjusted to different positions while maintaining a stable connected structure during operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The connection bracket is divided into separate functional components including guide blocks, guide screws, adjustment screws, and locking mechanisms. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of position while maintaining overall structural integrity, resolving the contradiction between fixed stability and adjustable flexibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of manufacture

If display units are arranged in fixed configurations for manufacturing simplicity, then ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability deteriorates because various arrangements cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidarrangement flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The connection bracket with its position adjusting device serves multiple functions: it connects display units, enables position adjustment, allows step difference correction, and supports various arrangement configurations. This universal design allows the same bracket structure to be used across different display unit arrangements without requiring custom manufacturing for each configuration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Manufacturing precision

If connectors are fixed in position for manufacturing precision, then manufacturing precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates because connector alignment becomes difficult during assembly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnector positioningVSAvoidconnector alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The connection bracket acts as an intermediary component between display units, incorporating guide blocks and guide screws that mediate the alignment process. The guide screws convert rotational adjustment into precise linear movement of connectors, enabling accurate alignment during assembly while maintaining fixed connector positions on the display units themselves for manufacturing precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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 easy adjustment of display unit positions and step differences, allowing for flexible arrangement and improved design flexibility of display units.

Implementation Method 1

a guide screw rotatably coupled to the guide block, and configured to move the guide block in an up and down direction by rotating

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectScrew mechanism: Screw

Implementation Method 2

The position adjusting device is configured to convert a rotational movement caused by a rotational force applied to the position adjusting device, into a linear movement for at least one of the display units

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectRotational to linear conversion mechanism: Screw

Data Source

PatentEP4668049A1Connection bracket and display apparatus including same
Publication Date: 2025.12.24 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus comprises: a first display unit comprising a first connector, a second display unit disposed adjacent to one side of the first display unit, the second display unit comprising a second connector, a connection bracket comprising a third connector configured to be electrically connectable to the first connector, and a fourth connector configured to be electrically connectable the second connector, and a position adjusting device configured to move at least one of the first display unit and the second display unit to adjust a mounting position of the at least one of the first display unit and the second display unit while the connection bracket is mounted to the first display unit and the second display unit so that the first connector is connected to the third connector and the second connector is connected to the fourth connector.