Folding Display Device With Nesting Wings And Hinge Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional display devices lack a compact and versatile design that allows for easy transportation and storage while providing an expanded display area for enhanced user experience, particularly in applications like gaming and virtual reality.
Innovation Solution
A device featuring a base housing and a display housing with folding wings that fold over a center panel to form a recess for the base housing, coupled by a hinge assembly, allowing for a compact closed orientation and an expanded open orientation with a continuous display across the center panel and wings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If the display device uses a conventional fixed structure, then the structural simplicity is maintained, but the display area is limited and portability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display device is divided into multiple segments including a base housing, display housing, center panel, and folding wings. These segmented components can be independently positioned and connected via hinge assemblies, allowing the display area to be expanded when needed while maintaining structural simplicity for portability when folded.
Solution Approach 2:
The device transitions from a static conventional structure to a dynamic folding structure. The hinge assemblies enable the folding wings to move between folded and unfolded positions, allowing the display area to be dynamically adjusted based on usage requirements while maintaining a compact form factor for transport.
2Area of moving object
If the display device is designed with an expanded display area, then user experience in gaming and virtual reality is enhanced, but the device size increases and portability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The folding wings are designed to fold over and nest around the center panel, with the base housing disposed within a recess formed by the folded wings. This nesting arrangement allows the expanded display components to be compactly stored within the overall device footprint when not in use, maintaining portability while enabling expanded display area during operation.
3Volume of moving object
If the folding wings are designed to fold over the center panel, then a compact footprint is achieved, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hinge assemblies serve multiple functions by simultaneously coupling the display housing to the base housing and enabling the folding motion of the wings. This merging of functions reduces the need for additional separate structural components, achieving compact footprint without excessive structural complexity.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the device uses a folding mechanism, then versatility in orientation and compactness are improved, but the reliability may deteriorate due to moving parts
Solution Approach 1:
The hinge assemblies are designed as robust, simple mechanical connections that prioritize reliability over complexity. While they introduce moving parts for versatility in orientation and compact folding capability, the design accepts the trade-off by using straightforward mechanical joints that are easy to manufacture and maintain, rather than attempting to eliminate moving parts entirely.
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AI summary
An apparatus can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a base housing; a display housing that includes a center panel and folding wings that fold over the center panel to form a recess for the base housing; and a hinge assembly that couples the display housing to the base housing.