Display Panel Mounting Layout for Reversible Stand Customization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional image display devices lack the ability for users to easily change the design or appearance without complex modifications, limiting customization and adaptability.

Innovation Solution

The image display device incorporates a design where a display panel is supported by first and second support members, with mounting members that can be fitted to various attachment parts on the back surface, allowing for easy rearrangement and reversal of support members to change the device's appearance and orientation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional fixed support structures are used, then structural stability is ensured, but design flexibility and ease of modification are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign flexibilityVSAvoidmodification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The support structure is divided into separate components: a pedestal, a support extending upward from the pedestal, and a mounting member that couples the support to the display panel. This segmentation allows each component to be independently modified or replaced, enabling design flexibility while maintaining structural stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting member is designed to be detachably coupled to the display panel, allowing the support structure to transition between fixed and movable states. This dynamic coupling enables users to easily modify the design by removing or repositioning mounting members without requiring complex modifications to the overall structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If simple mounting structures are used, then ease of modification is improved, but structural stability and support strength are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of modificationVSAvoidstructural stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting member combines multiple functions into a single component: it provides structural support, enables detachable coupling, and facilitates easy modification. By merging these functions, the structure achieves both ease of modification and structural stability without requiring separate complex mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting member is pre-configured with coupling structures that align with corresponding features on the display panel and support. This preliminary configuration allows users to easily modify the design by simply attaching or detaching pre-designed components rather than requiring complex assembly procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3389033B1Image display device
Publication Date: 2023.04.26 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is an image display device that allows a user to easily change a design. The image display device includes: a display panel displaying an image; a first support member and a second support member that support the display panel in an erected state; a first mounting member interposed by fitting between the display panel and one of the first support member and the second support member; a second mounting member interposed by fitting between the display panel and another of the first support member and the second support member; and a first attachment part, a second attachment part, a third attachment part, and a fourth attachment part provided on a back surface of the display panel and having structures fitted to at least one of the first mounting member and the second mounting member. The first attachment part, the second attachment part, the fourth attachment part, and the third attachment part are provided in this order from one end to another end in a width direction of the back surface of the display panel.