Quick-Connect Monitor Mount With Front-Release Locking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing quick release mechanisms for monitors and devices rely on gravity, making engagement and disengagement difficult, especially in stacked configurations, and lack a clamping function for stability, leading to a wobbly connection and accessibility issues.
Innovation Solution
A mechanism featuring a mounting plate, lock plate, and alignment plate with fasteners and springs that allow for secure engagement and disengagement from the front without lifting, using a lever to rotate the lock plate and disengage fasteners, ensuring stability and easy installation and removal of monitors in multi-monitor setups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If gravity-based vertical engagement is used, then the mechanism is simple to implement, but the connection feels loose and wobbly without clamping function
Solution Approach 1:
The mechanism transitions from a static gravity-based connection to a dynamic clamping system where the lever actively engages and secures the mounting plate between clamp arms, providing stable holding force that adapts to the monitor's weight and position
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the engagement parameter from passive gravitational force to active mechanical clamping force, transforming the connection mode from loose vertical engagement to rigid horizontal compression that eliminates wobbling
2Device complexity
If engagement fingers are positioned near the engagement point, then the mechanism is compact, but the fingers are inaccessible from the front of the monitor
Solution Approach 1:
The lever is positioned on the front surface of the monitor rather than at the rear engagement point, moving the control interface to a different spatial dimension that is easily accessible to users while maintaining compact internal mechanism design
3Device complexity
If vertical engagement motion is used, then the mechanism is simple to implement, but it is difficult to remove a bottom monitor without first removing the upper monitor in stacked applications
Solution Approach 1:
The mechanism enables independent horizontal disengagement of each monitor through lever actuation, transforming the static stacked configuration into a dynamically controllable system where each connection can be released individually without affecting others
4Device complexity
If small engagement features with little or no lead-in are used, then the mechanism is compact, but it is difficult to install the monitor from the front without being able to see the mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting plate includes prominent lead-in features that guide the clamp arms into proper engagement position before the final securing action, allowing installation from the front without requiring visibility of the rear mechanism
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting plate serves as an intermediary component with built-in alignment and lead-in features that mediate between the user's installation action and the engagement mechanism, facilitating easy front-side installation
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables secure and stable connection and disconnection of monitors without requiring the removal of surrounding monitors, improving accessibility and reducing accidental disengagement, while maintaining stability and ease of installation and removal.
Implementation Method 1
springs that bias the lock plate to the engaged position
Implementation Method 2
using a lever to rotate the lock plate and disengage fasteners
Data Source
AI summary
A quick connect is described. The quick connect has an alignment plate, a lock plate, and an alignment plate. The alignment plates has one or more projections. The lock plate has one or more fasteners. The alignment plate and the lock plate are coupled together and capable of rotation relative to each other.