Adjustable Multi-Display Shelter for Variable Assembly Angles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional shelters for multi-display assemblies lack the ability to adjust their assembly angle, making them incompatible with various display configurations, which affects image quality due to environmental illumination.

Innovation Solution

A sheltering apparatus with a bridging component, including rotatable lateral members and top members, allows for adjustable assembly angles by enabling relative rotation and alignment between displays, ensuring effective light shading regardless of the number or arrangement of displays.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If a conventional shelter is designed to match a specific display assembly angle, then it can effectively block external light for that configuration, but it cannot be applied to other display configurations with different angles or numbers of displays

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexternal light blockingVSAvoidcompatibility with various display configurations
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The shelter incorporates rotatable lateral members that can adjust their angles relative to each other and to the top members. This dynamic structure allows the shelter to adapt to different display assembly angles while maintaining effective light blocking, resolving the contradiction between fixed-angle effectiveness and multi-configurability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The shelter is divided into modular components including first and second lateral members, first and second top members, and bridging components with engaging portions. These segmented parts can be independently adjusted and reconfigured to match different display arrangements, enabling versatility while maintaining functional effectiveness for each configuration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Object-affected harmful factors

If a conventional shelter is designed for a specific number of displays, then it provides optimal shading for that configuration, but it cannot be used with different numbers or arrangements of displays

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage quality protectionVSAvoidapplicability to different display types
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The shelter design with adjustable lateral members and modular top members creates a universal structure that can serve multiple display configurations. The engaging portions allow the same shelter to be adapted to different numbers and arrangements of displays while maintaining optimal shading and image quality protection for each specific configuration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If the shelter structure is made rigid to maintain stable shading, then it provides consistent light blocking, but it cannot adjust to different assembly angles between displays

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveshading consistencyVSAvoidangle adjustment capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The lateral members are designed with rotatable connections that allow angular adjustment while maintaining structural stability when positioned. This dynamic capability enables the shelter to adapt to different display assembly angles while providing consistent and stable light blocking once configured, resolving the contradiction between rigidity and adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11675387B2Shelter and sheltering apparatus
Publication Date: 2023.06.13 BENQ CORP
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AI summary

A shelter and a sheltering apparatus of adjusting an assembly angle are applied for an assembling display apparatus with a first display and a second display. The shelter includes a bridging component, a first top member and a second top member. The bridging component includes a first lateral member and a second lateral member. The first lateral member is detachably connected to the first display. The second lateral member is rotatably assembled with the first lateral member and detachably connected to the second display. The first top member is disposed on an upper end of the first lateral member. The second top member is disposed on an upper end of second lateral member, and partly overlapped with the first top member in a variable manner for matching relative rotation between the first lateral member and the second lateral member.