Modular Product Display Inserts With Integrated Power Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display units for products, especially cosmetic articles, lack flexibility and customizability, making it difficult to convert or reconfigure them according to customer requirements, and often require expensive electrification steps for illumination and other features.
Innovation Solution
A modular display unit with a mounting frame and interchangeable, frame-shaped or box-shaped inserts that can be easily rearranged and electrified via conductive tracks, allowing for variable configuration and simplified mounting, while eliminating the need for additional electrification steps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If display units are produced individually from metal, wood and plastic, then they can be made robust, but they are not customizable and conversions are very awkward
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit is divided into modular components: a base unit and interchangeable display modules. Each display module is a self-contained unit that can be easily attached and detached from the base, enabling customization without complex conversions. The mounting frame is segmented into standardized slots that receive different module types.
Solution Approach 2:
The base unit is designed with universal mounting interfaces that can accommodate multiple types of display modules. The standardized mounting frame and connection mechanisms allow a single base to support various module configurations, making the system multi-functional and adaptable to different display requirements without requiring separate custom-built units.
2Adaptability or versatility
If display units are made from individual materials like metal, wood and plastic, then they can be structurally sound, but electrification requires expensive and complex additional steps
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting frame integrates both mechanical support functions and electrical supply functions into a single unified structure. Conductive tracks are embedded within the mounting frame itself, so that the same component that provides structural support and module attachment also provides electrical power and data connections to the modules, eliminating the need for separate electrification systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The display modules are designed with self-contained electrical connections that automatically engage with the mounting frame's conductive tracks during the mechanical attachment process. The electrical connection is established passively through the mounting operation itself, without requiring separate wiring or electrification steps. The system serves its own electrical needs through the integrated mounting mechanism.
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 modular display unit enables cost-effective, flexible, and robust product display configurations that can be easily adapted to different settings, reducing installation time and costs, and providing effective promotion through background lighting and other features.
Implementation Method 1
the insert comprises a light-conducting plate (35) for illuminating the front side of the insert
Data Source
AI summary
A display unit for products has a mounting frame (10) with mounting profiles (12, 11; 14) disposed parallel and spaced apart from one another. Frame-shaped or box-shaped inserts (30) are fastened releasably to the mounting profiles. The inserts (30) have side walls (31) that form a rectangular frame, and the inserts are fastened releasably by their rear faces on the mounting profiles. Due to the fastening an electrical voltage is supplied simultaneously to the inserts. The inserts can be modules that are fastened individually to the mounting frame and each can be designed differently. The respective inserts are fastened releasably by their rear faces on the mounting profiles. Thus the display unit can be configured variably in a simple manner both in the case of conversions and also in the case of new constructions in sales premises.