Modular Rollable Digital Signage with Universal Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital signage solutions for vehicles lack modularity, portability, and the ability to dynamically update content, requiring retro-fitting and lacking independent power and control sources, making them unsuitable for peer-to-peer exchange and convenient transport.
Innovation Solution
A universally mountable digital signage system with a rollable/foldable design, featuring a housing with a roller, solar panels, programmable LED strips, and a control circuit for dynamic content updating, along with various affixing elements for easy attachment to different surfaces, enabling modular, portable, and customizable displays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional digital signage is mounted to vehicles using frameworks or bracing, then the display can be securely attached, but the device complexity and installation difficulty increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit is divided into modular segments that can be independently attached and detached. Each module contains its own housing, display screen, and mounting interfaces, allowing flexible configuration without requiring complex overall framework structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The display unit incorporates universal mounting interfaces that can attach to multiple surface types (flat, curved, glass, metal) using various affixing elements (magnetic, adhesive, mechanical). This multi-functional attachment capability eliminates the need for vehicle-specific frameworks.
2Reliability
If traditional digital signage is fixed to a specific vehicle, then the display remains stable, but the portability and ease of exchange between vehicles are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system transitions from a fixed permanent installation to a dynamic reversible attachment. The display can be quickly attached and detached using simple affixing elements, enabling easy exchange between vehicles while maintaining stability during each specific deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The display housing and mounting interfaces use standardized homogeneous designs that work across different vehicle types. This uniformity enables the same display unit to be reliably attached to any vehicle without requiring custom adaptation, facilitating portability and exchange.
3Strength
If digital signage units are manufactured as single integrated pieces, then the structural integrity is maintained, but the modularity and ease of transport are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into modular units with standardized connection interfaces. Each module maintains its own structural integrity through optimized housing design, while the segmentation enables easy transport, handling, and reconfiguration of individual modules without compromising overall system strength.
Solution Approach 2:
Smaller display modules can be nested within or attached to larger housing structures. This nesting capability allows compact storage and transport of modular components while maintaining the structural integrity of each individual unit when deployed.
4Adaptability or versatility
If traditional digital signage requires retro-fitting to vehicles, then the display can be customized for specific vehicles, but the manufacturing complexity and installation time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit incorporates universal mounting interfaces and multiple affixing element options that work across diverse vehicle surfaces and geometries. This universality provides vehicle customization and adaptability without requiring complex retro-fitting processes or vehicle-specific manufacturing.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system provides a modular, portable, and customizable digital signage solution that can be easily attached and detached from various surfaces, allowing for dynamic content updates and efficient peer-to-peer exchange, enhancing user friendliness and marketing capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
at least one solar panel attached to at least one surface of the at least one housing member
Implementation Method 2
plurality of programmable light emitting diode strips for causing text, graphical, and, or video display
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention claims and disclose an improved portable, modular, segmental, universally mountable digit-roll display unit with modular, adjustable, expandable, customizable display, and, or members, which could be universally attached to a plurality of surfaces via a variety of combination of attachments. These functions allow for simple, organized, customizable portable digital signage solutions for the individual. All the individual user has to do is to attach or detach the universally mountable digit-roll display unit according to the display surface dimensions. This makes the apparatus ideal for a peer-to-peer, or a marketer-to-contractor network. In addition, it enables marketer to track geo-location and viewer metrics, in order to dynamically push suitable content to display units and to mobile devices of proximal viewers.