Packing Container Limiting Element for Display Panel Circuit Board Protection

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Solution Overview

Problem

During transportation, display panel intermediate products face damage due to violent vibrations that generate stressing forces on flexible printed circuit boards, leading to abnormal issues with the display panel main body.

Innovation Solution

A packing container with a receiving recess featuring a limiting element and sidewall configuration that constrains the circuit board, reducing its movable space and the forces exerted on the flexible printed circuit board, thereby minimizing damage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the circuit board is placed in the packing container without constraints, then the packing container has simple structure and easy operation, but the circuit board suffers violent vibration during transportation causing damage to the flexible printed circuit board

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedamage rate of flexible printed circuit boardVSAvoidstructure complexity of packing container
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packing container is divided into multiple receiving zones: a first receiving zone for the display panel main body and a second receiving zone for the circuit board and flexible printed circuit board. This segmentation allows independent constraint mechanisms for each component, protecting the flexible printed circuit board while maintaining overall structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A limiting element is introduced as an intermediary component between the circuit board and the packing container walls. This limiting element forms a limiting accommodating space that constrains the circuit board, preventing violent vibrations from damaging the flexible printed circuit board without requiring complex integrated structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the circuit board is constrained with limiting elements, then the flexible printed circuit board is protected from damage, but the packing container structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprotection of flexible printed circuit boardVSAvoidconfiguration of limiting elements
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The limiting elements are specifically positioned only in the second receiving zone where the circuit board is located, rather than throughout the entire container. This localized constraint approach provides necessary protection for the flexible printed circuit board while minimizing overall structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The limiting elements are disposed within the second receiving zone of the packing container, with the limiting accommodating space nested within the overall container structure. This nesting allows the constraint mechanism to be integrated into the existing container geometry without adding external complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS10562671B2Packing container for display panel
Publication Date: 2020.02.18 HKC CORP LTD
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AI summary

A packing container for accommodating a display panel is described. The packing container includes a packing main body having a receiving recess, which includes a first receiving zone and a second receiving zone, and a limiting element disposed on the second receiving zone, wherein the limiting element and the sidewall of the second receiving zone form a limiting accommodating space to constrain and accommodate a circuit board of the display panel.