Movable Strap Grip for Portable Electronic Device Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones, are difficult to use conveniently due to limited orientation options when held with existing grip devices, which restrict user operations and do not provide stable support on flat surfaces.
Innovation Solution
A grip device with a main frame and a flexible strap featuring slide elements that can be aligned along different directions to enable movable attachment, allowing the device to be held in portrait or landscape orientations and supported on a flat surface, while also allowing attachment to a magnetic phone stand.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an elastic strap is used as the anchoring mechanism, then the user can securely hold the mobile phone, but the user is limited to holding the mobile phone in a particular orientation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by replacing the fixed elastic strap with a rigid strap that can be dynamically repositioned along a channel. The strap can be slid to different positions and orientations, allowing the user to adjust the grip device for different phone orientations (portrait, landscape, or flat surface support) while maintaining secure holding capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the strap attachment system into a main frame with a channel and a separate rigid strap with sliding components. This segmentation allows the strap to be independently positioned and repositioned along the channel, providing multiple orientation options while maintaining secure attachment to the phone surface.
2Device complexity
If a fixed grip device is used, then the device structure is simple, but the device cannot support the portable electronic device on flat surfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by designing a grip device that can perform multiple functions: holding the phone in portrait orientation, landscape orientation, and supporting the phone on flat surfaces. The rigid strap positioned along a channel enables these diverse functions while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
3Ease of operation
If the grip device allows multiple orientations, then user convenience is improved, but the attachment mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a dynamic attachment mechanism where the rigid strap can be easily slid along the channel to change orientations. This sliding mechanism provides multiple orientation options for user convenience while keeping the attachment mechanism relatively simple and easy to operate.
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
Enables efficient and stable operation of portable electronic devices in various orientations and supports them on flat surfaces, enhancing user convenience and device protection.
Implementation Method 1
The first slide element and the second slide element are configured to be received through the channel to enable movable attachment of the flexible strap to the main frame via the channel in accordance with sliding movement of the first slide element and the second slide element relative to one another across the channel
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AI summary
A method includes providing a main frame configured to be attached to a surface associated with a portable electronic device, and providing a flexible strap. The method also includes forming a grip device based on receiving slide elements of the flexible strap through a channel of the main frame, and enabling operations associated with the portable electronic device and support thereof on a flat surface through the attachment of the formed grip device to the portable electronic device.