Modular Display Assembly with Keyhole Connectors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display systems are time-consuming and costly to produce and install, often resulting in unnecessary waste due to their non-modular and non-scalable design, which limits their reusability and adaptability for various applications.
Innovation Solution
A modular display system featuring interconnected frames with standardized connectors and fasteners, allowing for easy assembly, disassembly, and reconfiguration, with components such as frame connectors, panel connectors, and border connectors that facilitate flexible mounting and artistic modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional display systems are used, then structural stability is maintained, but production and installation time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into modular components including separate frames, panels, borders, and connectors. Each component can be independently manufactured and assembled, significantly reducing production time and installation complexity while maintaining structural stability through standardized connection mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
Standardized connectors and mounting mechanisms are designed to work across multiple component types (frames, panels, borders), allowing universal assembly procedures and reducing the need for specialized installation techniques for each component type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional display systems are used, then structural integrity is maintained, but reusability and adaptability decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses separable modular components that can be easily disassembled and reconfigured for different applications or locations, enabling high reusability and adaptability while minimizing material waste through component recovery and recycling.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system transitions from static traditional structures to dynamic reconfigurable assemblies that can be easily modified, relocated, and adapted to different artistic and structural requirements through standardized connector interfaces.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional display systems are used, then artistic expression is maintained, but modification cost and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
Artistic modifications are achieved by replacing individual modular components (panels, borders, frames) through standardized interfaces, allowing creative expression while maintaining manufacturing efficiency through reuse of standardized connection mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
Components can be easily removed and replaced for artistic updates, with standardized connectors enabling efficient disassembly and reassembly, reducing modification costs and time while preserving system integrity.
Data Source
AI summary
A modular display system is provided, and includes a frame having peripheral sidewalls with a plurality of keyhole inserts and mount inserts provided thereabout, each of the plurality of keyhole inserts includes an upper insert section and a lower insert section positioned below and in communication with the upper insert section, each of the plurality of mount inserts includes a fastener receiving passageway and a head accommodation cavity positioned in front and in communication with the fastener receiving passageway. Further including, a panel having a frame with a plurality of raised edging fasteners positioned to correspond with the plurality of keyhole inserts.