Display Rear Cover With Hidden Stand Storage and Coupling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display apparatuses face challenges in accommodating and managing stands, leading to potential loss when switching between wall-mounted and floor-standing configurations, as stands are often stored separately and can be misplaced.

Innovation Solution

The display apparatus incorporates a stand member that is accommodated within the rear cover when wall-mounted, allowing it to be easily extracted and assembled for floor-standing use, featuring a protrusion system for secure coupling and screw fixation, ensuring the stand is always available and not exposed externally.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the stand member is stored separately outside the display apparatus, then it is easily accessible for floor-standing use, but it can be lost or misplaced when switching between wall-mounted and floor-standing configurations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestand availabilityVSAvoidstorage structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The stand member is nested within the rear cover of the display apparatus. The rear cover includes an accommodating portion that houses the stand member, allowing it to be stored inside the apparatus when not in use. This prevents loss and ensures the stand is always available with the device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Shape

If the stand member is exposed externally when wall-mounted, then it is easily accessible, but it compromises the aesthetics and compactness of the wall-mounted configuration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic appearanceVSAvoidstand accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The stand member is extracted from the accommodating portion and coupled to the rear cover when floor-standing use is needed. The coupling portion allows the stand to be securely attached to the rear cover, enabling easy deployment while maintaining a clean appearance during wall-mounted operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Reliability

If the stand member is integrated within the rear cover, then it prevents stand loss and improves aesthetics, but it requires additional coupling mechanisms increasing structural complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestand retentionVSAvoidcoupling mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The rear cover is segmented into an accommodating portion for storing the stand member and a coupling portion for securing the stand. The stand member itself is segmented with an inserting protrusion that interfaces with the coupling portion. This segmentation allows for simple, modular coupling mechanisms that reduce overall structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple coupling positions are provided for the stand member, then it enables flexible positioning and adjustment, but it increases the complexity of the coupling structure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveposition adjustmentVSAvoidcoupling structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The coupling portion is designed with universal functionality to accommodate the stand member at multiple positions. The inserting protrusion and coupling portion interface can engage at different locations along the rear cover, providing flexible positioning without requiring multiple distinct coupling mechanisms, thus maintaining structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11950383B2Display apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.04.02 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus according to a concept of the disclosure includes: a display panel configured to display an image in a front direction; a top chassis positioned in a front direction of the display panel; a bottom chassis positioned in a rear direction of the display panel; a rear cover covering a rear side of the bottom chassis; and a stand member being accommodatable in the rear cover and selectively coupled with a rear surface of the rear cover, wherein the rear cover includes an accommodating portion in which the stand member is accommodated and a coupling portion coupled with the stand member, and the stand member includes an inserting protrusion which is inserted into the accommodating portion and the coupling portion.