Phone Holder Mount With Pivoting Flap for Low-Height Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing phone holder mounts require a minimum overall height due to a perpendicular covering wall, which poses installation challenges, especially in center consoles where this height is not available.
Innovation Solution
The mount features an obliquely positioned, pivotable flap as the covering mechanism, eliminating the need for additional space beneath the base and reducing the overall height by allowing the flap to pivot into the plane of the base, ensuring contact connection only when the housing part is correctly aligned.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a perpendicular covering wall is used to cover the contact chamber opening, then the contact chamber can be effectively covered and locked, but the overall height of the mount increases due to the run-on slope requirement
Solution Approach 1:
The covering mechanism is changed from a perpendicular wall requiring downward displacement to an obliquely positioned flap that pivots within the plane of the base. This dimensional change allows the covering function to be achieved without increasing the overall height beneath the base.
Solution Approach 2:
The static perpendicular covering wall is replaced with a dynamic obliquely positioned flap that can pivot between covering and open positions. This dynamic element achieves the covering function while eliminating the need for additional vertical space.
2Ease of operation
If a displaceable wall component with spring force is used to allow housing insertion, then the housing can be properly positioned, but the structure becomes more complex with multiple moving parts
Solution Approach 1:
The obliquely positioned flap automatically performs the covering function when the housing is inserted, eliminating the need for a separate displaceable wall component with spring force. The housing insertion itself drives the flap to cover the contact chamber opening.
Solution Approach 2:
The covering function and the insertion guidance function are merged into a single obliquely positioned flap structure, reducing the number of separate components and simplifying the overall mechanism.
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
This design reduces the minimum overall height of the mount, allowing for easier installation in constrained spaces while maintaining secure contact connections and preventing accidental removal of the phone holder.
Implementation Method 1
which allows the housing part to be introduced into the recess, such that the housing part butts against a base of the recess, only once the wall component has been displaced counter to a spring force
Implementation Method 2
The wall component can be blocked in terms of displaceability by a locking means
Data Source
AI summary
A mount for a phone holder (17) which has a rear projecting housing part (19) with an extension (20) provided with contacts (23) and, on its front side, an accommodating pocket (18) for a cell phone, having a recess (2) which is adapted for accommodating the rear housing part (19) and is adjoined by a contact chamber (15) which is open on one side, contains mating contacts (16) and into which the extension (20) of the housing part (19) can be pushed for the contact-connection between the contacts (23) of the latter and the mating contacts (16), the housing part (19) being inserted into the recess (2), having a displaceable wall component (5) which bounds the recess (2) on the side located opposite the contact chamber (15), which allows the housing part (19) to be introduced into the recess, such that the housing part (19) butts against a base (3) of the recess (2), only once the wall component (5) has been displaced counter to a spring force and which can be blocked in terms of displaceability by a locking device in a position which corresponds to the position of the wall component (5) with the extension (20) inserted into the recess (2) and pushed into the contact chamber (15) to the contact-connection state, and having a covering (7) of the contact chamber (15), which extends over the opening (14) of the contact chamber (15) and can be pushed down by means of the phone holder (17) in order to release the opening (14) of the contact chamber (15), locking being activated by the locking device when the covering (7) is in the pushed-down state, can be produced with a low minimum overall height in that the covering is formed by an obliquely positioned flap (7) which is mounted in a pivotable manner on the base (3) of the recess (2) and by means of which the opening (14) of the contact chamber (15) can be released by virtue of the flap being pivoted into the plane of the base (3).