Laptop Rear Cover with Luminous Full-Color Pattern
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current laptop computer designs lack innovation in appearance, particularly in the rear cover, failing to provide users with unique styling options beyond simple textures or materials, and existing solutions do not adequately address user demands for dynamic visual effects.
Innovation Solution
A laptop computer with a light-transmissive rear cover featuring a luminous full-color pattern, incorporating an active light source that generates various lighting effects, synchronized with sound effects, using a light-guide plate, LED board, and connection unit to create vivid acousto-optic experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional thermal transfer printing method is used for the rear cover, then manufacturing process is simple, but it fails to reach uneven surfaces or surfaces with vertical angles, resulting in blisters and uneven surfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the printing process from the traditional thermal transfer method and separates it into two independent components: a flexible printing film that can conform to complex surfaces, and a roller fixture with blowing pressure mechanism. This separation allows the printing film to be adapted to uneven surfaces and vertical angles while maintaining manufacturing feasibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces pneumatic pressure through a blowing pressure mechanism that forces the flexible printing film against the rear cover surface. This pneumatic approach enables the film to reach uneven surfaces, vertical angles, and crevices that conventional thermal transfer cannot access, eliminating blisters and achieving uniform pattern transfer.
2Ease of manufacture
If simple flat illusion is provided on the rear cover, then manufacturing cost is low, but user satisfaction and uniqueness are not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The invention transforms the static rear cover into a dynamic visual element by incorporating light-transmissive patterns that can be illuminated. The flexible printing film allows for complex geometric patterns and full-color designs that change appearance under different lighting conditions, providing users with dynamic visual effects while maintaining cost-effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses light-transmissive printing patterns that interact with backlighting to create vibrant full-color effects. The flexible film can be printed with various color patterns that become vivid when illuminated, allowing users to customize the appearance of their laptops without significantly increasing manufacturing costs.
3Device complexity
If no active light source is incorporated, then device complexity is low, but visual effects and user experience are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces an active light source that serves as an intermediary between the user and the laptop's visual appearance. The light source illuminates the light-transmissive patterns on the rear cover, creating dynamic visual effects that enhance user experience while adding only moderate complexity to the device structure.
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 users with a unique and dynamic visual experience, enhancing the laptop's appearance and functionality by generating various lighting effects that can be configured to match different operational states and sound effects, thereby offering a more engaging user interaction.
Implementation Method 1
an active light source disposed inside the light-transmissive rear cover
Implementation Method 2
active light source disposed inside the light-transmissive rear cover
Implementation Method 3
light-transmissive rear cover printed with a luminous full-color pattern
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosure herein is related to laptop computer having a rear cover with luminous full-color pattern. The look of laptop computer essentially includes a host body and a screen cover. The host body and the screen cover are pivotally connected. Within the host body of the laptop computer, an input unit, an output unit, power supply unit, and a mainboard are generally included. It is characterized in that the screen cover is constituted of a liquid crystal display panel, an active light source, and a rear cover printed with a pattern. The liquid crystal display panel and the active light source are respectively connected with the mainboard electrically. The active light source of the laptop computer allows generating various lighting modes no matter in booting the computer, in use, or in standby state. Furthermore, to cooperate with the pattern on the light-transmissive rear cover, a variety of esthetic visions are presented.