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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing supports for presenting information and displaying products are costly, complex, and difficult to manufacture, with limited ease of bending and semi-automatic opening, making them inefficient for easy storage and quick installation.
Innovation Solution
A support comprising at least two panels connected along an articulation line with elastic hauling elements and contrast elements that allow semi-automatic opening and easy storage, enabling the support to be bent and quickly opened for installation, utilizing materials like cardboard or polypropylene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional supports with multiple bands and complex structures are used, then the support can maintain shape and present information, but the manufacturing cost and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and eliminates the complex multi-band supporting means from the traditional support structure. Instead of using multiple bands distributed along the presentation surface, the patent uses a single elastic element that performs both the function of maintaining the bent configuration and providing the necessary support, thereby dramatically simplifying the overall structure while maintaining shape stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functions of multiple components into a single integrated elastic element. This elastic element simultaneously provides the supporting action to maintain the bent configuration, enables semi-automatic opening, and allows easy storage, replacing what traditionally required multiple separate bands and complex articulation mechanisms.
2Ease of operation
If traditional supports with complex articulation mechanisms are used, then the support can be opened and closed, but the ease of bending and storage is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces dynamic characteristics to the support structure through the elastic element, which allows the support to transition between bent and opened states. The elastic element provides the necessary flexibility for easy bending and storage while simultaneously enabling semi-automatic opening through its elastic properties, eliminating the need for complex fixed articulation mechanisms.
3Reliability
If supports with multiple components and complex structures are used, then the support can function reliably, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention adopts a simplified elastic element that can be easily manufactured and potentially replaced, rather than using expensive, complex metal articulation mechanisms. The elastic element provides sufficient functional reliability for the intended use while being much more cost-effective to manufacture, aligning with the principle of using simpler, more economical components.
4Productivity
If traditional supports are used, then the support can present information, but the speed of opening for installation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The elastic element is pre-configured to provide the opening force automatically when the support is installed. The preliminary elastic energy stored in the element enables semi-automatic opening without requiring additional manual effort or complex activation mechanisms, thereby increasing installation speed while maintaining simplicity.
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 solution provides a cost-effective, reliable, and simple-to-manufacture support that can be easily bent for storage and quickly opened for use, maintaining a vertical position and reducing overall size when closed.
Implementation Method 1
at least one elastic hauling element (19), connected to the free edges (18, 28) of the panels (11, 21) and designed to keep said free edges (18, 28) mutually in contact
Implementation Method 2
at least one contrast element (30) having a first end (31) connected to at least one of said free edges (18, 28) through the elastic hauling element (19), and a second end (32) connected to at least one of said panels (11, 21), to counteract the action of the elastic hauling element (19)
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AI summary
A support (10) for presenting information and/or displaying products is described, comprising at least two panels (11, 21), one of which has a presentation surface (15) on which information to be presented are included, such panels (11, 21) being mutually connected along an articulation line (16) and each having a free edge (18, 28), the support (10) being designed to be closed, by mutually overlapping the panels (11, 21) bent around the articulation line (16), an elastic hauling element (19) connected to the free edges (18, 28) of the panels (11, 21) and designed to keep the free edges (18, 28) mutually in contact, a contrast element (30) having a first end (31) connected to one of the free edges (18, 28) through the elastic element (19), and a second end (32) connected to one of the panels (11, 21), to counteract the action of the elastic element (19).