Encapsulated Visual Effecter with External Display for Custom Souvenirs
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Solution Overview
Problem
The manufacturing of customized souvenir products with electronic and optical components, such as key chains, faces challenges including high failure rates, costly production, poor stability, and delayed supply to tourists, due to complex chemical encapsulation processes.
Innovation Solution
A displaying device and method featuring a visual effecter with encapsulated electronic-optical elements, where a 2D or 3D display is placed outside the visual effecter to achieve visual effects like blinking or flashing, using encapsulated LEDs, liquid crystal displays, and power sources, ensuring easy manufacturability, cost-effectiveness, and timely production.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If chemical encapsulation is used to integrate electronic-optical components with the display, then product stability and visual effect are improved, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase, and production time extends
Solution Approach 1:
The invention divides the product into two separate modules: an encapsulated visual effecter containing electronic-optical components, and a display component. These modules are assembled together after separate preparation, eliminating the need for complex chemical encapsulation of the entire assembly while maintaining product stability and visual effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic-optical components are encapsulated in advance to form a pre-assembled visual effecter module. This preliminary encapsulation allows the components to be prepared and tested separately, then integrated with the display through simple assembly, reducing overall manufacturing complexity and time.
2Reliability
If chemical encapsulation is used to integrate electronic-optical components, then visual effects are achieved, but production cost and manufacturing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
By separating the encapsulated visual effecter from the display component, the invention simplifies the manufacturing process. Each module can be produced independently using standard encapsulation techniques, then assembled through simple mechanical or adhesive bonding, making the overall process more accessible and cost-effective.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces an intermediary assembly step where the pre-encapsulated visual effecter is coupled with the display component. This intermediary approach allows each subsystem to be optimized and manufactured separately, then integrated through a simplified coupling process that reduces overall manufacturing complexity.
3Reliability
If chemical encapsulation is used for customization, then product stability is improved, but production time increases and supply speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The visual effecter module with electronic-optical components is encapsulated and prepared in advance as a standardized module. This preliminary action allows mass production of the effecter module independent of custom display content, enabling rapid assembly of customized products once the display component is prepared, thereby increasing production efficiency and supply speed.
Solution Approach 2:
By segmenting the product into a standardized encapsulated effecter module and a customizable display component, the invention enables parallel production processes. The standardized module can be mass-produced while custom displays are prepared separately, then quickly assembled, significantly improving production efficiency compared to traditional integrated encapsulation.
4Reliability
If chemical encapsulation is used to integrate components, then visual effects are achieved, but cost and processing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention separates the encapsulation process into a standalone module fabrication step, allowing the use of conventional encapsulation techniques for the visual effecter without requiring complex integrated encapsulation processes. This segmentation makes the manufacturing process more accessible and easier to implement.
Solution Approach 2:
The visual effecter is encapsulated and tested in advance as a complete functional module before being integrated with the display. This preliminary encapsulation and testing approach simplifies the final assembly process and reduces the need for complex multi-step encapsulation procedures during final product manufacturing.
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 approach reduces failure rates, lowers costs, enhances production efficiency, and ensures timely and reliable supply of customized products with improved visual effects, while maintaining product stability and ease of handling.
Implementation Method 1
The electronic-optical element may be any known light emitting element such as a light emitting diode (LED), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a polymer light-emitting diode (PLED), or any combination thereof
Data Source
AI summary
The device comprises a visual effecter and a display, wherein the visual effecter comprises at least one encapsulated electronic-optical element; the display can be a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional display or any combination thereof; the display locates outside the visual effecter; and the display is subject to the visual effect of the visual effecter.