Flexible Display Window with Nested Glass Layers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional windows do not offer a means to enhance the visual experience by allowing the display of preferred scenery or images, which can affect mood and ambiance.

Innovation Solution

Integration of a flexible display screen between glass layers in a window frame, enabling the display of images or functioning as a curtain, with optional touch panel control and electronic elements for image management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a flexible display screen is integrated between glass layers in a window frame, then the window can display preferred scenery or images to enhance mood and ambiance, but the structural complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay functionVSAvoidwindow structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The flexible display screen is nested between the first and second glass layers, with the glass layers acting as protective enclosures for the display screen. This nesting approach integrates the display function within the existing window structure without requiring separate housing, thereby adding versatility while controlling structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The window structure is designed to serve multiple functions: the glass layers provide both structural protection for the display screen and maintain the window's primary function of light transmission and viewing. The frame structure simultaneously supports the glass layers and integrates the display components, achieving multi-functionality that addresses both display needs and structural requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a flexible display screen is integrated between glass layers, then the window can provide dynamic visual experience, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay capabilityVSAvoidassembly precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The window is divided into distinct functional segments: the first glass layer, the flexible display screen, the second glass layer, and the frame structure. Each segment can be manufactured and assembled separately, allowing for specialized manufacturing processes for each component while maintaining overall assembly precision through standardized interfaces and mounting structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple glass layers and electronic elements are integrated, then the display function is enabled, but the weight of the window increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay functionVSAvoidwindow weight

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

A flexible display screen is used instead of rigid display panels, allowing for thinner construction and reduced material usage. The flexible nature of the display screen enables it to be integrated between thin glass layers without requiring additional structural support, thereby minimizing the weight increase while maintaining the display function.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS10662704B2Window with display function and house using the same

Publication Date: 2020.05.26 HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO LTD

AI summary

A window with display function includes a window frame, a window body embedded in the window frame, a flexible display screen, an electronic element. The window body includes a first glass layer and a second glass layer spaced from each other. The flexible display screen is between the first glass layer and the second glass layer. A house using the window is also related.