Display Plate Support Structure for Damage-Free Snap Mounting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional display structures face difficulties in mounting and detaching display boards with insufficient deformation and shape restoration properties, leading to potential damage and ease of use issues, especially with small-sized boards lacking finger holding portions.

Innovation Solution

The display structure incorporates a support body with slide grooves, a display window portion, and a unique fitting mechanism where the display board deforms to fit into the support body without intense local deformation, allowing for easy attachment and detachment through insertion and removal ports.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the display board has insufficient deformation and shape restoration properties, then it is easier to manufacture and use, but it cannot be properly mounted or detached from the support body

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of manufactureVSAvoidmounting reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the geometric parameters of the support body structure, specifically designing the insertion space with a narrow portion and positioning the engagement projection to shield this narrow portion. This structural parameter change allows the display board to be mounted and detached without requiring intense local deformation, thereby enabling use of materials with insufficient deformation properties while maintaining manufacturing ease.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Volume of moving object

If the display board is made small in size, then it is more compact and versatile, but it lacks finger holding portions making attachment and detachment difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesizeVSAvoidease of attachment and detachment
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent designs the support body with an insertion port that allows the display board to be inserted and engaged through its own structural features (engagement projection and narrow portion configuration) without requiring external tools or finger holding portions on the display board itself. The structure performs the attachment function autonomously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If the engagement projection is positioned to shield the narrow portion of the insertion space, then mounting is simplified, but intense local deformation occurs on the display board

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of mountingVSAvoidlocal intense deformation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-configures the support body with a specifically designed insertion space that includes a narrow portion and positions the engagement projection to shield this narrow portion before the display board is inserted. This preliminary structural arrangement guides the display board through the insertion process, allowing mounting to proceed without causing intense local deformation on the display board.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

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

This configuration enables the use of display boards with insufficient deformation properties to be securely mounted and removed without damage, facilitating attachment and detachment, and allows for the creation of various applications such as pendants, broaches, and name tags.

Implementation Method 1

the display board has a deformation property and a shape restoration property

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElastic deformation: Elasticity

Implementation Method 2

the shape restoring property of the sheet 908 causes the stopper projection 909a to be inserted into the small hole 908c

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectShape restoration: Elastic Recovery

Data Source

PatentEP2463847B1Display structure and support body
Publication Date: 2015.04.22 MATSUSHITA TERUAKI
  • EP2463847B1 patent drawingFigure 1(a)~1(g)
  • EP2463847B1 patent drawingFigure 2(a)~2(e)
  • EP2463847B1 patent drawingFigure 3(a)~3(f)

AI summary

Disclosed is a display structure in which an insertion opening, slide grooves, a first fitting portion and a ridged portion along which the display plate bends when the display plate is bent arranged in the loading sections of a support body in a suitable manner to ensure that when the display plate is inserted into or removed from the loading unit, a force is exerted on both sides of the display plate in either the direction from the display surface side to the rear surface side thereof or the direction from the rear surface side to the display surface side thereof, and a force is exerted in another direction at the center region of the display plate. As a result of configuring in this manner, the display plate deforms so that the entire display surface side comes to have a convex or concave shape, thereby allowing the display plate to be attached to or detached from the support body without forcible localized deformation of the display plate.