Articulated Monitor Stand Assembly for Ergonomic Touch Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users require flexible ergonomic systems for monitors that can seamlessly transition between visualization and touch input modes, as existing solutions often fail to provide adequate ergonomic adjustments for both functions without compromising usability or stability.
Innovation Solution
A monitor assembly system featuring a horizontal platform, a support with a pivotable arm, and a monitor mount that allows the monitor to be pivoted between various orientations, including touch mode, free orientation, and table orientation, maintaining the center of mass above the platform's footprint for stability and ergonomic comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the monitor is positioned for visualization, then viewing comfort is improved, but touch input accessibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The monitor assembly incorporates a dynamic support mechanism with multiple degrees of freedom, including tilt adjustment (10-85 degrees from vertical) and rotation capabilities, allowing the monitor to transition between portrait and landscape orientations. This dynamic positioning system enables users to switch between visualization-optimized and touch-input-optimized configurations, resolving the contradiction between viewing comfort and touch accessibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the monitor is positioned for touch input, then touch accessibility is improved, but viewing comfort deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The support mechanism allows the monitor to be tilted to angles between 10-85 degrees from vertical and rotated between landscape and portrait orientations. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the monitor to achieve optimal positions for touch input while maintaining viewing comfort through the extended range of motion provided by the articulated arm and tilt mechanisms.
3Ease of operation
If the monitor is tilted for ergonomic positioning, then ergonomic comfort is improved, but stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The support mechanism incorporates friction-based damping and friction washers that provide counterbalancing forces to maintain the monitor at tilted angles. The friction control mechanism allows the monitor to be positioned at ergonomic angles (10-85 degrees from vertical) while preventing unwanted movement, effectively counteracting gravitational forces that would otherwise cause instability.
Solution Approach 2:
The friction-based positioning system provides tactile feedback to the user when adjusting the monitor position, allowing precise control over the tilt angle. The friction damping mechanism automatically adjusts to maintain the monitor at the desired angle, providing stable ergonomic positioning through passive feedback control.
4Ease of operation
If the monitor is extended forward, then accessibility is improved, but center of mass stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The articulated arm support mechanism provides multiple degrees of freedom, including extension, retraction, tilt, and rotation capabilities. This dynamic support system allows the monitor to be extended forward for improved accessibility while maintaining stability through the distributed support structure and friction-based damping that prevents unwanted movement at any position within the extended range.
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AI summary
A system can include a platform that includes a front end and a back end; a support that includes a column, an extension and an arm joint disposed on the extension, where the column extends vertically from the platform and where the extension extends from the column at an acute angle and positions the arm joint vertically above the platform and toward the back end of the platform; a monitor mount that includes an arm joint; a monitor that includes a computing device and a touch screen, the monitor being mountable to the monitor mount; and an arm coupled at a pivot end to the arm joint of the support and coupled at a free end to the arm joint of the monitor mount, the monitor mount being pivotable about the free end of the arm. Various other apparatuses, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.