Display Case Guide Panel Interference Fit Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing display apparatus cases have issues with assembly quality and visibility of the assembly state, leading to a compromised visual appearance due to the exposure of internal components, and they lack design flexibility and component diversification.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a guide protrusion at the corner of the guide panel and a corresponding guide groove in the case top, allowing for an interference fit coupling that enhances assembly accuracy and allows for design modifications by separating the guide panel into a body portion and corner portion, enabling easier recognition of the assembly state and accommodating various display device designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the guide panel and case top are coupled using conventional methods, then the assembly process is simple, but the assembly accuracy and visual appearance are compromised due to incorrect coupling and exposed internal components
Solution Approach 1:
The guide panel is divided into a body portion and separate corner portions, each with specific coupling features. The case top is also segmented with corresponding guide grooves and coupling protrusions. This segmentation allows for precise alignment and coupling of individual components, improving assembly accuracy while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
Guide protrusions and guide grooves are introduced as intermediary coupling features between the guide panel and case top. These intermediary elements facilitate precise alignment and secure coupling, ensuring correct assembly position and improving manufacturing precision without requiring complex coupling mechanisms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the case components are designed for a specific visual appearance, then the aesthetic quality is improved, but the design flexibility and component diversification are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the guide panel into a body portion and separate corner portions with standardized coupling interfaces, the design allows different corner portions to be selected and combined with the same body portion. This segmentation enables design flexibility and component diversification while maintaining consistent external appearance through uniform coupling features.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide panel body portion is designed with universal coupling features that can accommodate different corner portions. This universality allows the same body portion to be used across multiple design variations, enabling design flexibility and component diversification while maintaining a consistent overall appearance through standardized interfaces.
3Ease of manufacture
If the coupling structure is simplified for ease of manufacture, then the manufacturing process is streamlined, but the assembly state visibility and quality are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling protrusions and guide features are designed with visible characteristics that allow easy detection of the assembly state. The standardized coupling interfaces provide visual cues that indicate whether components are correctly assembled, improving assembly state visibility while maintaining ease of manufacture through simple geometric features.
Data Source
AI summary
A case for a display apparatus and the display apparatus including the same are discussed, which are beneficial in terms of publication of components and diversification of design. The case includes a guide protrusion at a corner portion of the guide panel, and the case top includes a guide groove in which the guide protrusion is located. If a guide panel body portion and a guide panel corner portion are separated from each other and are coupled to each other in an interference fit manner, such that the guide panel body portion is commonly used for public purposes and constituent components of the guide panel corner portion are changed, the case for the display apparatus properly copes with various display devices having different configurations.