Display Light Board Bar Fixing for Power-Line Clearance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display apparatuses face challenges in efficiently fixing light source boards, which can interfere with power supply lines, affecting durability, performance, and manufacturing efficiency, and complicating component repairs.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus design featuring a bottom chassis with bar fixers and board fixers that securely attach board bars and light source boards, ensuring they do not interfere with power supply lines, while allowing for efficient assembly and repair.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If light source boards are fixed using conventional methods, then assembly is simple, but the fixing structure interferes with power supply lines and reduces reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct durabilityVSAvoidfixing structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The light source board is divided into multiple board bars, each with its own coupling portion and bar fixer. This segmentation allows the fixing structure to be distributed and optimized independently, preventing interference with power supply lines while maintaining overall structural integrity and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The coupling portion acts as an intermediary element between the board bar and the bar fixer. It provides a dedicated interface for mechanical attachment that is spatially separated from the power supply lines, thereby preventing interference while ensuring secure fixing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If board fixers are positioned to securely attach board bars, then manufacturing efficiency increases, but repair and replacement become more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoidcomponent replacement ease
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The modular board bar design with discrete coupling portions allows individual components to be independently accessed and replaced. The segmentation enables efficient assembly during manufacturing while facilitating targeted repair without requiring complete disassembly of the light source board.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The fixing structure is designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing bar fixers to be easily positioned and secured during assembly, yet permitting controlled disassembly for repair purposes. This dynamic design optimizes both manufacturing efficiency and ease of maintenance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of manufacture

If coupling portions are located on board bars, then fixing is simplified, but power supply lines are interfered with

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassembly easeVSAvoidpower supply interference
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The coupling portions are strategically positioned at specific locations on the board bars where they do not overlap with power supply line routes. This local optimization ensures that the fixing function is achieved without creating harmful interference with electrical connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The coupling portions and bar fixers utilize the vertical dimension and lateral spacing to position fixing elements in three-dimensional space away from the planar power supply lines. This dimensional separation eliminates interference while maintaining effective mechanical attachment.

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

Data Source

PatentUS12399398B2Display apparatus
Publication Date: 2025.08.26 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus includes: a display panel; light sources configured to emit light; a plurality of board bars on which the light sources are mounted, the plurality of board bars being spaced apart from each other along a first direction and extending in a second direction; a bottom chassis; and a plurality of bar fixers configured to fix the plurality of board bars to the bottom chassis. Each of the plurality of board bars includes: a central extending portion extending in a center of each board bar in the second direction; and a coupling portion located on the central extending portion of each of the plurality of board bars and located on one side in the first direction with respect to one light source among the light sources mounted on each of the plurality of board bars. Each of the plurality of bar fixers are disposed on each coupling portion.