Foldable Mobile Stand With Damped Hinges for Angle Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones, often require users to hold them for operation, limiting hand use and making it inconvenient to view content at comfortable angles, especially when used flat on a surface.
Innovation Solution
An upright stand for mobile devices featuring a coupling part, first and second supporting parts, and connecting parts with damping rotating shafts, allowing adjustable angles and folding states for versatile use and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a folding positioning support structure is used to enable adjustable viewing angles, then the user can watch contents at comfortable angles, but the device complexity increases due to additional folding mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is divided into multiple segments (first supporting part, second supporting part, connecting part) that can fold independently at bending parts. This segmentation allows the complex folding function to be achieved through simple, modular hinge-like connections rather than a single complex mechanism, reducing overall structural complexity while maintaining多角度 viewing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The folding support structure relies on gravity and simple elastic recovery at the bending parts to maintain positioned states, without requiring motors, sensors, or complex control systems. The structure self-adjusts and self-holds at folded positions, eliminating the need for active control mechanisms and significantly reducing device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the support structure includes multiple bending parts and damping rotating shafts for versatile positioning, then multiple devices can be displayed side by side and storage options are customizable, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple mobile devices simultaneously through its multiple bending parts and configurable geometry. The same basic structure serves multiple functions: supporting single or multiple devices, providing various viewing angles, and enabling different storage configurations. This multi-functionality achieves versatility without proportionally increasing manufacturing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The connecting part incorporates a bending part with damping characteristics that provides flexible yet controlled movement between supporting parts. This flexible connection allows the structure to adapt to different device sizes and configurations while using simple, manufacturable components rather than precision-machined parts, easing manufacturing complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables hands-free operation and adjustable viewing angles, enhancing user convenience and allowing multiple devices to be displayed side by side, with customizable support and storage options.
Implementation Method 1
One end of the first supporting part and the second supporting part is connected with one end of the coupling part by means of a damping rotating shaft, and the coupling part can be turned over relative to the first supporting part and the second supporting part by the damping rotating shaft. The damping rotating shaft is characterized in that, the user must take the first supporting part and the coupling part as the arms of force, and apply a moment greater than a first critical moment to the damping rotating shaft to overcome a resistance of the damping rotating shaft and make it rotate.
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AI summary
The present application provides a upright stand for a mobile device which comprises: a coupling part, which can be directly or indirectly fixed with a first mobile device in a non-permanent way; and first and second supporting parts, one end of the second supporting part is fixed with one end of the first supporting part, while the other end thereof opposite to the end fixed with the first supporting part is a free end, and the second supporting part is provided with a first bending part, by which the free end of the second supporting part can be bent relative to the first supporting part; wherein one end of the first and second supporting parts is connected with one end of the coupling part by a damping rotating shaft, and the coupling part can be turned over relative to the first and second supporting parts by the damping rotating shaft.