Flexible Display Panel Attachment with Adjustable Bending Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Flexible display panels face layer staggering issues when bent, leading to potential layer detachment, and existing curved surface attachment methods require different bending angles for various panels or layers, increasing attachment costs.

Innovation Solution

An attaching device with a flexible adsorption plate and adjustable rods, including telescopic cylinders and rotating components, allows for precise adjustment of bending angles and attachment states, ensuring uniform bending and secure layer attachment across different panels or layers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If curved surface attachment is used to reduce layer falling off risk, then layer stability is improved, but attachment cost increases due to different bending angles required for different panels or layers

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelayer stabilityVSAvoidattachment cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs adjustable bending angle mechanisms that allow the attachment device to dynamically adapt to different bending angle requirements for various panels or layers, eliminating the need for multiple fixed-angle fixtures and reducing attachment costs while maintaining layer stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the bending angle parameter of the attachment device to match different panel or layer requirements, allowing a single device to handle multiple attachment scenarios with different curvature needs, thereby reducing overall attachment cost while ensuring proper layer bonding

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If different bending angles are provided for different panels or layers, then attachment precision is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattachment precisionVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent designs an attachment device with universal functionality that can accommodate different bending angle requirements through adjustable mechanisms, allowing a single device to perform multiple attachment tasks with varying precision needs without requiring separate specialized fixtures for each panel or layer type

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

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 device ensures secure attachment of flexible layers by allowing adjustable bending and uniform curvature, reducing the risk of layer detachment and lowering attachment costs by accommodating various bending angles with a single device.

Implementation Method 1

The flexible adsorption plate is configured to be bendable and to adsorb a flexible layer of the flexible display panel

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFlexibility: Elasticity

Implementation Method 2

The flexible adsorption plate is configured to be bendable and to adsorb a flexible layer of the flexible display panel

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdsorption: Adsorption

Implementation Method 3

the second end of the first adjustment rod is configured to be movable relative to the first end of the first adjustment rod, and/or the second end of the second adjustment rod is configured to be movable relative to the first end of the second adjustment rod, for adjusting the degree of bending of the flexible layer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical displacement: Displacement

Data Source

PatentUS20220071030A1Attaching device for flexible display panel
Publication Date: 2022.03.03 CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD
  • US20220071030A1 patent drawing
  • US20220071030A1 patent drawing

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and proposes an attaching device for a flexible display panel, including a flexible adsorption plate, a first adjustment rod, and a second adjustment rod. The flexible adsorption plate is configured to be bendable and adsorb a flexible layer of the flexible display panel. The first end of the first adjustment rod is connected to the first end of the second adjustment rod, the second end of the first adjustment rod is connected to the first side of the flexible adsorption plate, and the second end of the second adjustment rod is connected to the second side opposite to the first side of the flexible adsorption plate. For at least one of the first and second adjustment rods, the second end is configured to be movable relative to the first end for adjusting the degree of bending of the flexible layer.