Illuminated Display Assembly With Retractable Tethers for Secure Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current display technologies lack secure, portable, and interactive solutions for showcasing aromatic botanical specimens like cannabis, which require secure containment, easy handling for viewing, and aroma sampling while preventing theft or misplacement.
Innovation Solution
A display assembly comprising a housing with a base and a detachable platform, featuring retractable tethers and a locking mechanism, integrated lighting, and an interaction detection system, allowing secure display, easy handling, and dynamic lighting or informational display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If display containers are made secure and fixed to prevent theft, then security is improved, but ease of handling and viewing is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by implementing retractable tethers that allow the display container to move between a secured position (when not in use) and a released position (when viewing is needed). The tether system dynamically adjusts the constraint level on the container, providing security when required while enabling easy handling when needed. This resolves the contradiction by making the security mechanism adaptable rather than static.
2Reliability
If display containers are fixed securely to the display assembly, then theft prevention is improved, but aroma sampling and viewing accessibility is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The retractable tether system enables dynamic security control, allowing the container to be securely held during transport and storage but easily released for aroma sampling and viewing. The user can pull the container away from the display assembly for close inspection and aroma sampling, then the tether automatically or manually retracts to secure it again, maintaining both security and accessibility.
3Illumination intensity
If lighting is continuously on to illuminate display containers, then visibility is improved, but energy consumption is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action through motion-activated or proximity-based lighting control. When a user approaches the display assembly or interacts with it (such as removing a container for viewing), the lighting automatically activates to provide illumination. When no interaction is detected, the lighting remains off or enters a dimmed state, reducing energy consumption while maintaining visibility during active use periods.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates secure, portable, and interactive display of aromatic botanical specimens, enabling patrons to view and sample while preventing theft, with dynamic lighting and informational content based on user interaction.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of retractable tethers mounted to the platform in the interior of the housing, the tethers extending through the one or more tether ports and fastening corresponding display containers to the platform, and each tether permitting limited movement of a corresponding display container away from a corresponding predetermined location to facilitate viewing of the articles and urging the display container back to the predetermined location
Implementation Method 2
a lighting system including one or more interior light sources in the interior of the housing under the windows for illuminating the windows from below
Data Source
AI summary
An illuminable display assembly including (a) a housing having a base securable to a support surface, a platform detachably mounted to the base, and a generally enclosed interior bounded from above by the platform. The platform includes a plurality of illuminable windows spaced apart from each other therealong. The display assembly further includes (b) a plurality of retractable tethers mounted to the platform in the interior of the housing. The tethers fasten corresponding display containers to the platform and urge the display containers to predetermined positions adjacent corresponding windows. The display assembly further includes (c) a lighting system including one or more interior light sources in the interior of the housing for illuminating the windows and display containers from below.