Display Panel Tray With Airgap Buffers for Shock and Wear Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Display panels, such as LCD and OLED panels, are prone to damage and peeling due to external shocks during storage and transportation, and Styrofoam trays provide insufficient impact resistance.
Innovation Solution
A tray for display panels featuring a body part with a base and outer wall, and slot parts with support members and buffer members that include airgaps and pillar portions to absorb and distribute impact, using materials with varying hardness to minimize shock and abrasion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple slots are disposed in a tray for a display panel to correspond to the corners of a display panel, then the mobility of a display panel in the tray is minimized and damage from external shock is prevented, but the slots experience abrasion and wear
Solution Approach 1:
A buffer member is introduced as an intermediary element between the support member (slot structure) and the display panel. This buffer member includes airgaps that provide cushioning and reduce direct contact friction, thereby protecting the slots from abrasion while maintaining the panel's stability and protection function.
2Weight of moving object
If a Styrofoam material is used for the tray, then the tray is lightweight and easy to manufacture, but the impact resistance is relatively low
Solution Approach 1:
The tray is constructed using a composite structure combining Styrofoam material for the body with additional buffer members that include airgaps. This composite approach maintains the lightweight advantage of Styrofoam while enhancing impact resistance through the cushioning effect of the airgaps and buffer structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Buffer members with airgaps are pre-installed in the slot structures before the display panel is placed in the tray. These buffer members provide beforehand cushioning that absorbs and distributes impact forces, protecting the panel from shock damage while maintaining the tray's lightweight characteristics.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The tray effectively reduces external shock and minimizes abrasion of slots, protecting display panels by distributing impact and preventing detachment of optical members.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of buffer portions, each including airgaps
Implementation Method 2
The at least one buffer member may include a plurality of buffer portions, each including airgaps, and a plurality of pillar portions
Implementation Method 3
The second surface may have a convex shape in a plan view
Data Source
AI summary
A tray for a display panel includes a body part including a base and an outer wall disposed to surround the base, and a slot part including a support member extending in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, and at least one buffer member disposed on an inner lateral side of the support member, wherein the at least one buffer member includes a plurality of buffer portions, each including airgaps, and a plurality of pillar portions, each disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of buffer portions, the at least one buffer member includes a first surface, which is in contact with the support member, and a second surface, which faces the first surface, and the second surface has a convex shape in a plan view.