Multi-orientation Display Device with Swivel Wing Hinge
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing overlap in feature sets among mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, leads to redundancy and user inconvenience due to differences in form factor and display attributes, necessitating a device that can adapt to multiple orientations and uses.
Innovation Solution
A computing device with a scalable, foldable display panel that integrates a flexible display screen, allowing it to convert between handheld and tablet-style form factors by folding and unfolding, with sensors to adjust the graphical user interface and enable/disable screen portions based on orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops) are used to cover different form factor needs, then device functionality and display options are improved, but device complexity and user cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The display device integrates multiple display orientations (landscape, portrait, and diagonal) within a single device, allowing one device to perform the functions previously requiring multiple separate devices. The display can be configured in different orientations to suit various applications, making the device universally adaptable to different use cases.
Solution Approach 2:
The display orientation is made dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. The system can switch between landscape, portrait, and diagonal orientations based on application requirements or user preference, enabling the device to adapt its configuration dynamically during operation.
2Device complexity
If a single device is used instead of multiple devices, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different orientations and uses is limited
Solution Approach 1:
A single display device is designed to provide multiple display orientations (landscape, portrait, diagonal) to replace the need for multiple separate devices. This universal design allows one device to handle various form factor requirements that previously demanded multiple specialized devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The display introduces a diagonal orientation as an additional dimensional option beyond the traditional landscape and portrait modes. This adds another degree of freedom to the display configuration, expanding the device's versatility without requiring additional physical devices.
3Ease of operation
If display orientation is fixed, then device complexity is reduced, but user experience and application optimization are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The display orientation transitions from a fixed state to a dynamic, adjustable state. The system can change between landscape, portrait, and diagonal orientations based on application requirements or user preference, enhancing ease of operation for different tasks while maintaining manageable device complexity through software control.
Data Source
AI summary
A computing device includes a flexible display screen, a housing to house at least one processor device and at least one memory element, and a first wing to support a side portion of the display screen. The front face of the housing includes a center portion of the display screen. The first wing is connected to the housing by a hinge, the first wing configured to swivel about an axis defined by the hinge. The hinge is configured to lock the first wing in at least two wing positions, a first of the wing positions supports the side portion of the display screen in a first orientation, a second of the wing positions supports the side portion of the display screen in a second orientation, and the side portion of the display screen is active in the first orientation and hidden in the second orientation.