Display Packaging Box Groove and Opening Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display devices are prone to damage during transportation due to vibrations or impacts within packaging boxes, which can cause cracking of the side seal and lead to light leakage and deterioration of the device's appearance.

Innovation Solution

A packing box design featuring a lower body and an upper body with grooves and openings that allow the display device's edges to be securely inserted, providing isolation and cushioning through pads and ribs, and including openings that create an escape space to prevent contact with the packaging box's interior, thereby minimizing friction and damage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the display device is placed in a conventional packaging box without grooves and openings, then the packaging box has simple structure and easy manufacture, but the display device may move by vibration or impact during transportation and cause damage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprotection of display deviceVSAvoidstructure of packaging box
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging box is divided into multiple functional components: grooves in the upper wall portion for edge insertion, openings in the cover portion for screen clearance, isolation portions for positioning, and pads for cushioning. Each segment performs a specific protective function, transforming a simple container into a multi-functional protection system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Pads are introduced as intermediary elements between the display device edges and the packaging box structure. These pads provide cushioning and friction-based holding, mediating the interaction between the device and packaging to prevent movement while avoiding direct rigid contact that could cause damage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If openings are added to the cover portion to create escape space, then the display device screen is protected from contact and friction, but the manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefriction and impact on screenVSAvoidmanufacturing of packaging box
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Material is removed from the cover portion to create openings, extracting the potential harm area. By taking out sections of the cover, the design creates escape spaces that prevent screen contact while maintaining the overall box structure. This extraction approach simplifies the problem of protecting the screen without requiring complex additional components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Stability of the object's composition

If grooves are formed in the upper wall portion for edge insertion, then the display device is securely positioned and isolated, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning of display deviceVSAvoidgroove dimensions and alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The grooves are designed with specific local characteristics - positioned at corners or edges where insertion is needed, with dimensions optimized for edge fit. The isolation portions are strategically placed at specific locations to provide positioning without requiring precision throughout the entire box structure. This localized approach reduces overall manufacturing precision requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12162646B2Display device packaging box
Publication Date: 2024.12.10 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A packing box according to an embodiment includes a lower body including a bottom portion and a lower wall portion extending upward from the bottom portion; and an upper body including a cover portion and an upper wall portion extending downward from the cover portion defining an inner space with the lower body in case that combined with the lower body. The upper wall portion includes at least one groove in which an edge portion of a display device is inserted, and the cover portion includes at least one opening abutting with the at least one groove.