Exterior LED Lattice Display Panels for Wind-Resistant Media Facades
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing outdoor advertising structures, such as large steel-framed signs, face challenges in efficiently displaying visual media across large surfaces while withstanding environmental factors like wind and precipitation.
Innovation Solution
The development of an exterior display system featuring a mechanical supporting structure that forms a lattice framework, connected to electronic visual display panels with multiple LED disc assemblies, allowing for a strong and stable display that can dissipate environmental forces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If large steel-framed signs are used to display visual media across large surfaces, then the advertising coverage area is improved, but the structure becomes more vulnerable to environmental forces like wind and precipitation
Solution Approach 1:
The display structure is divided into multiple modular panels that can be independently supported and maintained. Each panel is a self-contained unit with its own support structure, allowing the system to handle large total display area while maintaining reliability through modular independence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional flat 2D billboard surfaces to a three-dimensional lattice framework that extends in multiple spatial dimensions. This lattice structure provides structural strength through its geometric configuration while accommodating large display surfaces across multiple planes and depths.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional billboard structures are used, then installation is straightforward, but maintenance and repair of individual components is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into modular panels with standardized interfaces. Each panel can be independently accessed, removed, and replaced without affecting the entire structure, enabling easy maintenance and repair of individual components while maintaining overall system integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular panels are designed with universal mounting interfaces and standardized components that can be used across all panels in the system. This universality allows any panel to be replaced with an identical or upgraded panel, simplifying maintenance procedures and reducing the need for custom parts.
3Strength
If solid panel structures are used for billboards, then structural strength is improved, but the ability to dissipate environmental forces like wind is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display structure employs a lattice framework with intentional open spaces rather than solid panels. This porous configuration allows wind and precipitation to pass through the structure, significantly reducing the harmful forces exerted on the display while maintaining structural strength through the geometric arrangement of the lattice elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The structure combines multiple materials with complementary properties - the lattice framework provides structural strength and environmental force dissipation, while the display panels mounted on the lattice provide the visual media surface. This composite approach allows each component to optimize its function without compromising the other.
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 system effectively presents visual media across large surfaces, maintaining visibility during bright sunlight and withstanding environmental conditions, while also allowing for easy maintenance and repair of individual components.
Implementation Method 1
Each of these multiple electronic visual display panels can include multiple groups of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
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AI summary
An exterior display system can be configured and arranged around a structure. The exterior display system includes a mechanical supporting structure configured and arranged about the exterior surface of the structure. This mechanical supporting structure can include various supporting structures and/or mounting structures which are configured and arranged to form a mechanical lattice framework. An electronic visual display device can be connected to the mechanical lattice framework to form the exterior display system. The electronic visual display device can include multiple electronic visual display panels which are connected to the mechanical lattice framework. Each of these multiple electronic visual display panels can include multiple groups of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs), also referred to electronic LED disc assemblies, that are configured and arranged in a series of one or more rows and/or a series of one or more columns.