Wall-Mounted Display Frame Structure for Tilt Load Rigidity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices face challenges in maintaining rigidity and minimizing deformation or damage due to tilting or load, especially when installed on walls using tilting brackets, and require a cover structure that can effectively cover or expose the front surface while ensuring structural integrity.

Innovation Solution

A display device design featuring a module cover, display panel, surrounding frame, bar, and mount, with additional components like coupling parts, fixing parts, and rigid parts to enhance torsional and bending rigidity, and a cover assembly that can open or close to manage the front surface exposure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a tilting bracket is used to install the display device on a wall, then the display device can be installed in different positions and angles, but the frame may deform or damage due to tilting or load

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation flexibilityVSAvoidframe strength
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a bar extending in the depth direction (third dimension) behind the module cover, connecting the first and second frames. This dimensional addition creates a three-dimensional support structure that distributes mechanical loads more effectively, preventing frame deformation while maintaining wall-mounted installation flexibility through the mount coupling to the bar and first frame

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of manufacture

If the frame structure is simplified for easier manufacturing, then manufacturing cost and complexity are reduced, but the rigidity of the frame decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing easeVSAvoidframe rigidity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The frame is segmented into a first frame adjacent to one side of the module cover and a second frame adjacent to the other side, connected by a bar extending between them. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured separately with simpler processes while the assembled structure achieves the required rigidity through the distributed support geometry

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

By adding the bar element extending in the depth direction to connect the first and second frames, the patent creates a three-dimensional structural framework. This dimensional enhancement provides structural rigidity without requiring complex manufacturing of individual frame pieces, as the rigidity emerges from the spatial arrangement of simpler components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Reliability

If a cover structure is added to cover or expose the front surface, then protection and aesthetic coverage are improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefront surface protectionVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The module cover serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support as part of the frame assembly, offers protection for the front surface of the display device, and enables aesthetic coverage when closed. The mount coupling to the first frame and module cover integrates the covering function into the existing structural framework without adding separate complexity

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

Data Source

PatentUS11602071B2Display device
Publication Date: 2023.03.07 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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  • US11602071B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A display device includes: a module cover; a display panel which is positioned in front of the module cover, and is coupled to the module cover; a frame which surrounds a side surface of the module cover, the frame including a first frame adjacent to one side of the module cover and a second frame adjacent to the other side of the module cover opposite to the one side of the module cover; a bar which is positioned behind the module cover, extends long between the first frame and the second frame, and is coupled to the first frame and the second frame; and a mount which is positioned behind the module cover, adjacent to the one side of the module cover, and is coupled to the bar, wherein the mount is coupled to the first frame and the module cover.