Monitor Alignment Linkage with Hook-and-Loop Fastening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for aligning multiple computer monitors fail due to adjustable joints that are often unreliable and semi-permanent fasteners, making it difficult to achieve parallel orientation and proper body posture.
Innovation Solution
A linked bracing device with cylindrical and central planar joints, utilizing hook-and-loop fastening and adjustable rods and linking members, allows for easy alignment and orientation of monitors by affixing to their surfaces, enabling equal height and angle adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If adjustable joints are used to align multiple monitors, then the monitors can be positioned at equal orientation, but the adjustable joints often fail and lack reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional adjustable mechanical joints with a laser-based alignment system. The laser alignment apparatus projects reference lines and planes onto monitor surfaces, eliminating the need for mechanical adjustment joints. This substitution of mechanical systems with optical fields resolves the reliability issue while maintaining alignment capability.
2Strength
If semi-permanent fasteners are used to secure monitors, then the monitors can be firmly attached, but it becomes difficult to detach and reconfigure the monitors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic fastening mechanisms that can transition between locked and unlocked states. The monitor supporting apparatus includes quick-release fasteners that provide strong attachment when engaged but allow rapid detachment when released, enabling both firm securing and easy reconfiguration of monitor positions.
3Area of stationary object
If multiple monitors are positioned side by side, then more display area is available, but the monitors end up oriented differently in height and angle requiring effortful alignment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses laser projection to create virtual reference planes and lines that guide monitor positioning. Instead of mechanically adjusting each monitor individually, the laser alignment system projects guide lines onto the monitor surfaces, allowing operators to visually align multiple monitors with minimal effort while maintaining equal orientation.
4Ease of operation
If existing alignment devices are used, then monitor orientation can be adjusted, but the devices lack means for readily detaching monitors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the alignment system into separate functional modules: a laser alignment apparatus for positioning and a supporting apparatus with independent fastening mechanisms. This segmentation allows the alignment function to remain while detachability is added through the modular quick-release fasteners, enabling both orientation adjustment and easy reconfiguration.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure refers to an apparatus for aligning at least two visual display monitors. A symmetrical pair of pads are joined by a linkage that allows for angular and lateral adjustment and are configured to be affixed to the surfaces of monitors for adjusting and bracing the monitors in a chosen orientation relative to each other.