Operation Input Device Housing for Remote Imaging Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current imaging systems for remote operation lack reliability and environmental resistance, particularly in business applications, where high drop impact strength and protection against water, dust, and moisture are required, while also needing to reduce size and weight for increased usability.
Innovation Solution
The integration of an operation input device with a housing designed for high impact resistance and environmental sealing, combined with an image display device that accommodates the input device, allowing for remote operation and image display in a centralized apparatus, with electrical connections and engaging mechanisms for secure integration and easy mounting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the operation input device and image display device are integrated into a handy device, then the device can be operated remotely while standing, but the housing structure must have high drop impact strength and environmental resistance, which increases design complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the operation input device and image display device into a single handy centralized operation apparatus. The operation input device is accommodated within the image display device housing, combining remote operation controls and display functions in one unit, which simplifies the overall system while meeting business use reliability requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The image display device housing serves multiple functions: it protects the display unit, accommodates the operation input device, provides environmental sealing, and enables both display and remote operation functions in a single structure, reducing the need for separate protective housings
2Weight of moving object
If the operation input device is made compact for portability, then the device size and weight are reduced, but the reliability and environmental resistance may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The operation input device is nested within the image display device housing. This nested arrangement allows the smaller operation device to benefit from the larger housing's protective structure, environmental sealing, and impact resistance without requiring its own separate protective housing, thus maintaining reliability while keeping the overall device compact
3Ease of manufacture
If the operation input device and image display device are separated, then each device can be optimized independently, but the system lacks integration and portability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the system into separable modules: the operation input device and the image display device can be manufactured and optimized independently, then connected through the engagement structure. This segmentation allows independent optimization while maintaining integration capability when needed
4Ease of operation
If electrical connection portions are exposed on the housing surface, then signal transmission is simplified, but the device becomes vulnerable to water, dust, and moisture infiltration
Solution Approach 1:
The electrical connection portions are extracted from exposed positions on the housing surface and relocated to the bottom surface of the housing. This extraction removes them from vulnerable areas where water, dust, and moisture could infiltrate, while still maintaining signal transmission capability through the bottom surface openings
Data Source
AI summary
An operation portion is provided on a first surface of a housing and is operated to remotely operate an imaging device. A signal transmitting and receiving portion is provided on a second surface of the housing connected to the first surface, and is configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from the imaging device. An electrical connection portion is attached to the first surface of the housing or to a surface of the housing facing the same direction as the first surface, and is configured to output a signal, which is received from the imaging device through the signal transmitting and receiving portion, to the outside. Engaging pieces are retractably provided at positions facing each other with the operation portion interposed therebetween, on a third surface and a fourth surface connected to both the first surface and the second surface.