Display Screen Fixing Mechanism with Resilient Torque Support

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional display devices with pivot mechanisms are structurally complex and constrained by appearance design, limiting flexibility in fixing screens at different view angles.

Innovation Solution

A display device featuring a supporting structure with resilient components and constraining portions allows the screen to be fixed at various angles without directly assembling the pivot mechanism between the screen and base, utilizing a rotatable supporting structure and resilient component to provide torque for adjusting view angles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional pivot mechanism is directly assembled between the display and the base, then the display can be fixed at different pivot angles, but the structure becomes complex and the appearance design is constrained

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepivot angle adjustmentVSAvoidstructure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The pivot mechanism is divided into two independent parts: a supporting structure that provides mechanical support and angle positioning, and a resilient component that provides torque. This segmentation allows each part to perform its function independently, simplifying the overall structure while maintaining pivot angle adjustment capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The resilient component is extracted as a separate element from the supporting structure. By taking out the torque-providing function into a dedicated resilient component, the supporting structure can focus on mechanical support and positioning, reducing structural complexity and freeing appearance design constraints

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional pivot mechanism is directly assembled between the display and the base, then the display can be fixed at different pivot angles, but the number of structural components increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepivot angle adjustmentVSAvoidnumber of components

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The supporting structure integrates multiple functions into a single component: it provides mechanical support for the display, enables rotation, positions the display at different angles through its geometric design, and works with the resilient component to maintain fixed positions. This merging reduces the total number of components compared to conventional pivot mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional pivot mechanism is directly assembled between the display and the base, then the display can be fixed at different pivot angles, but the appearance design is constrained

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepivot angle adjustmentVSAvoidappearance design freedom

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The resilient component acts as a flexible element that can be disposed of in various configurations. This flexibility allows the supporting structure to have a cleaner, more streamlined appearance without the visual clutter of complex pivot mechanisms, thereby improving appearance design freedom

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

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 solution results in a display device with a simplified structure and improved aesthetic, enabling easy adjustment of view angles with fewer components while preventing over-rotation and fatigue.

Implementation Method 1

The resilient component sheathes with the supporting structure for providing torque to the supporting structure when the screen rotates relative to the base

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Implementation Method 2

The pivot mechanism utilizes friction to generate force for supporting the display, so as to fix the pivot angle of the display relative to the supporter

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectFriction: Friction

Data Source

PatentUS9036347B2Display device capable of fixing a screen at different view angles

Publication Date: 2015.05.19 WISTRON CORP

AI summary

The present invention discloses a display device including a base, a screen and a fixing mechanism. The fixing mechanism is connected to the base and the screen for fixing the screen on the base. The fixing mechanism includes a supporting structure rotatably installed on the base. Two ends of the supporting structure selectively engage with a plurality of constraining portions on the screen so as to fix the screen at different view angles relative to the base. The fixing mechanism further includes a resilient component sheathing with the supporting structure. An end of the resilient component is fixed on the base, and the other end of the resilient component is fixed on the supporting structure. The resilient component provides torque to the supporting structure as the screen rotates relative to the base.