Display FPCB Guide Structure for Uniform Folding and Antenna Spacing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The internal space constraints in portable communication devices, such as smartphones, lead to variations in antenna communication characteristics due to the use of housing parts as antennas, affecting uniformity and assembly precision.
Innovation Solution
A display device with a display FPCB module featuring a guide structure for uniform folding and assembly, ensuring consistent communication characteristics by managing the folded state and distance from metallic housing walls used as antennas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If housing parts are used as antennas to reduce internal space, then device weight and size are optimized, but communication characteristics become non-uniform
Solution Approach 1:
A guide structure is introduced as an intermediary component between the display FPCB module and the housing. This guide structure standardizes the folded state of the FPCB module, ensuring consistent positioning and distance from the housing antenna, thereby maintaining uniform communication characteristics while utilizing housing space efficiently
Solution Approach 2:
The guide structure controls and standardizes the spatial parameters (position and distance) of the display FPCB module in its folded state. By fixing these parameters, the invention ensures that the FPCB module maintains a consistent relationship with the housing antenna, resolving the non-uniformity issue
2Volume of moving object
If display FPCB module is folded to fit internal space, then device compactness is improved, but assembly precision varies
Solution Approach 1:
The guide structure serves as a mediating component that standardizes the folding process and final position of the display FPCB module. It provides reference surfaces and constraints that ensure consistent assembly precision across all devices, eliminating variations caused by manual folding
Solution Approach 2:
The guide structure is pre-installed on the housing before the display FPCB module is folded and assembled. This preliminary action establishes fixed reference points that guide the folding process and ensure precise positioning, making the assembly process more consistent and repeatable
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual assembly is used for display FPCB module folding, then flexibility is maintained, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide structure acts as a standardized intermediary component that can be integrated into automated assembly equipment. It provides fixed reference surfaces and constraints that guide robotic manipulators or automated folding devices, enabling mass production while maintaining assembly precision and flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The guide structure serves multiple functions: it guides the folding process, standardizes the final position, provides assembly references, and can be integrated into automated equipment. This multi-functionality makes it suitable for both flexible manual assembly and high-volume automated production
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a display device including a display module including a panel part, in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, and a rear part supporting the panel part, and a display flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) module connected to the display module, and the display FPCB module may include a guide structure disposed at a first position of a rear surface of the display FPCB module to contact a portion of the rear part of the display module when the display FPCB module is in a folded state, a signal line connected to the guide structure, and a connector connected to the signal line, and a portable communication device including the same.