Lenticular Data Center Labels for Compact Multi-Code Scanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information handling systems, particularly server type systems, face challenges in providing both human-readable and machine-readable labels within limited space, often consuming excessive space and risking erroneous scans due to the need for multiple codes.
Innovation Solution
A lenticularly lensed machine-readable label device integrates multiple machine-readable codes into a single label, allowing sequential reading and preventing erroneous scans, with a lenticular print that enables different parts of the code to be visible from different angles, and includes a label management system for assembling and managing these codes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple machine-readable codes are provided on the same label, then larger datasets can be stored, but the label consumes excessive space and risks erroneous scans
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies lenticular lens technology to encode multiple machine-readable codes in a single two-dimensional label space. The lenticular structure creates multiple focal points that allow different code segments to be viewed from different angles, effectively adding a dimensional layer to the label's information capacity without increasing its physical footprint.
Solution Approach 2:
The label is divided into multiple code portions, each visible from specific viewing angles through the lenticular lens. This segmentation allows the label to present different data segments sequentially rather than simultaneously, enabling larger datasets to be stored in a compact format while preventing scan errors through controlled visibility of code portions.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple machine-readable codes are provided on the same label, then larger datasets can be stored, but erroneous scans may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The label is divided into multiple code portions, each visible from specific viewing angles through the lenticular lens. This segmentation allows the label to present different data segments sequentially rather than simultaneously, enabling larger datasets to be stored in a compact format while preventing scan errors through controlled visibility of code portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The lenticular lens structure creates a periodic viewing experience where different code portions become visible at different angles. This periodic revelation of code segments ensures that only one portion is active at any given viewing angle, preventing erroneous scans by eliminating overlapping code interference.
3Area of stationary object
If a lenticular lens is used to display different code parts from different angles, then space is saved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the machine-readable code portions directly into the lenticular lens structure itself, rather than placing separate codes on the label surface. This integration combines the optical element and the data carrier into a single unified component, reducing overall label complexity despite the advanced functionality provided.
Solution Approach 2:
The lenticular lens serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as the structural element of the label, the optical mechanism for angle-dependent viewing, and the organizing structure for the machine-readable code portions. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby managing complexity while achieving space savings.
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
This solution saves space by allowing multiple machine-readable codes within the same footprint, enabling larger datasets and preventing erroneous scans, while maintaining human-readable text availability and improving data storage and access to system information.
Implementation Method 1
a lenticular lens portion, the lenticular lens portion being designed so that when viewed from different angles, different parts of the machine readable code portion are shown
Data Source
AI summary
A label management system. The label management system includes a label management application executing on a user device; and, a label device, the label device comprising a machine readable code portion; and, a lenticular lens portion, the lenticular lens portion being designed so that when viewed from different angles by the user device, different parts of the machine readable code portion are accessed by the user device.