Magnetic Frame Assembly for Rearrangeable Visual Feature Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing frame systems for displaying visual features are difficult to rearrange once secured, limiting user discretion in orientation and overall size and shape of the display.
Innovation Solution
The use of display assemblies with frames that incorporate magnets for polar attraction, allowing for selective positioning and rearrangement without permanent fixation, along with optional fasteners and support members for secure attachment to surfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If frames are permanently secured to wall and to another frame, then stability and secure attachment are improved, but ease of operation and ability to rearrange deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into separate modular frame assemblies that can be independently positioned and connected. Each frame assembly contains magnetic elements that enable connection without permanent fixation, allowing users to segment and reconfigure the display arrangement freely while maintaining secure attachment through magnetic forces.
2Stability of the object's composition
If frames are permanently secured in desired orientation, then stability of orientation is improved, but adaptability and user discretion deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The frame assemblies incorporate magnetic connection elements that provide dynamic, adjustable positioning rather than fixed orientation. The magnetic attraction maintains stable connection between frames while allowing users to freely adjust and reposition frames to various orientations, combining stability during use with adaptability during reconfiguration.
3Device complexity
If frames are permanently secured, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Traditional mechanical fastening systems (screws, nails, adhesives) are replaced with magnetic connection elements embedded in the frame assemblies. This substitution simplifies installation by eliminating complex fastening procedures while maintaining secure attachment, and simultaneously enables easy rearrangement by allowing frames to be detached and repositioned without tools or permanent damage.
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
Enables flexible and easy rearrangement of visual features while maintaining secure attachment, allowing users to create desired orientations and configurations without the need for permanent installation.
Implementation Method 1
each display assembly of the plurality of display assemblies can be configured for selective positioning relative to at least one other display assembly to establish a polar attraction between aligned magnets associated with the frames of adjacent display assemblies
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for selectively arranging a plurality of visual features. The systems and methods include the use of a plurality of display assemblies. Each display assembly can have a frame and at least one magnet operatively associated with the frame. Each display assembly can be configured for selective positioning relative to at least one other display assembly to establish a polar attraction between aligned magnets associated with the frames of adjacent display assemblies.