Display Stand Swivel and Height Adjustment Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional stand-type display devices require complex structures to facilitate tilt, swivel, and height-adjusting movements, leading to increased volume, weight, and production costs.

Innovation Solution

A stand design featuring a support plate with a swivel plate and lubricating pad, a screw system with a guide hole, a support neck part with a lubricating rail, and a plate spring to minimize thickness and weight while enabling swivel, height adjustment, and tilting movements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a complex structure is used to facilitate tilt, swivel, and height-adjusting movements, then the display device can achieve multiple movement functions, but the volume, weight, and production cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemovement functionsVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple movement functions (swivel, tilt, height adjustment) into a single integrated stand structure. The support plate, swivel plate, and height adjustment mechanism are merged into one cohesive assembly that provides all required movements without needing separate complex mechanisms for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The stand structure is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously - the support plate provides both swivel movement and height adjustment capability, while the integrated clamp mechanism handles both securing and positioning functions. This multi-functionality reduces the overall number of components needed.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If a complex structure is used to facilitate tilt, swivel, and height-adjusting movements, then the display device can achieve multiple movement functions, but the volume and weight increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemovement functionsVSAvoidstand volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The stand components are designed with nested structures where the height adjustment mechanism fits within the support plate assembly, and the swivel mechanism is integrated into the same space. This nesting approach allows multiple functional elements to occupy overlapping spatial volumes, reducing the overall external dimensions of the stand.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Adaptability or versatility

If a complex structure is used to facilitate tilt, swivel, and height-adjusting movements, then the display device can achieve multiple movement functions, but the production cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemovement functionsVSAvoidproduction cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The stand is divided into distinct modular components (support plate, swivel plate, height adjustment mechanism, clamp assembly) that can be manufactured separately using standard machining processes and then assembled. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function and manufactured efficiently, reducing overall production complexity and cost.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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 design achieves minimal thickness and weight while allowing for swivel, height adjustment, and tilting movements, reducing production costs and complexity.

Implementation Method 1

a lubricating pad provided between the support plate and the swivel plate

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLubrication: Lubrication

Implementation Method 2

a lubricating rail coupled to right and left outer surfaces of the frame, respectively, and contact with right and left inner surfaces of the support neck part

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLubrication: Lubrication

Implementation Method 3

a plate spring provided in an inner back surface of the support neck part

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS10253921B2Stand and display device using the same
Publication Date: 2019.04.09 LG ELECTRONICS INC
  • US10253921B2 patent drawing
  • US10253921B2 patent drawing
  • US10253921B2 patent drawing

AI summary

There is disclosed a stand comprising a support plate; a swivel plate provided in an upper end of the support plate and configured to horizontally rotate with respect to the support plate; a lubricating pad provided between the support plate and the swivel plate and coupled to the support plate; a screw configured to fasten the swivel plate, the lubricating pad and the support plate to each other; and a guide hole formed in the swivel plate and configured to provide a rotation passage of the screw in the horizontal rotation, so that the stand may realize the swivel structure of the output unit while minimizing the thickness of the support portion and that the height adjusting structure while minimizing the right and left thickness of the neck portion.