Mobile Phone Stand With Storage Compartment And Asymmetric Base

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional mobile phone stands lack storage compartments for accessories and fail to provide stability and anti-tipping features, leading to potential damage and inconvenience during prolonged use.

Innovation Solution

A mobile phone stand with a storage compartment featuring a trough for the phone, a slanted back support, and a long base plate for stability, along with adjustable spacers and a hinged lid for accommodating different phone sizes and storing accessories, preventing the phone from falling or tipping over.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a mobile phone stand is designed with a simple structure, then it is easy to manufacture and use, but it lacks storage compartments for accessories

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of structureVSAvoidstorage functionality

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the phone stand function with a storage compartment into a single integrated structure. The storage compartment is formed by extending the base plate to create a enclosed space, merging two separate functions (supporting the phone and storing accessories) into one unified device, thereby resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and storage functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The base plate serves multiple functions: it provides structural support for the stand, creates the storage compartment enclosure, and forms the bottom of the storage space. This multi-functionality allows the stand to both support the phone and store accessories without requiring separate components, addressing the contradiction between simplicity and versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Illumination intensity

If the phone holder raises the phone significantly higher than the base surface, then visibility is improved, but the holder becomes more prone to tipping over

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisibility rangeVSAvoidanti-tipping stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses an asymmetric design where the base plate extends longer in the horizontal direction than the vertical height of the phone support. This asymmetric proportioning lowers the center of gravity and increases the tipping moment arm, providing enhanced stability that compensates for the elevated phone position, thereby resolving the contradiction between visibility and anti-tipping stability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

3Illumination intensity

If the phone holder raises the phone significantly higher than the base surface, then visibility is improved, but the phone becomes more vulnerable to damage from falls or tipping

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisibility rangeVSAvoiddamage risk from falls

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The asymmetric base plate design with extended horizontal length creates a lower center of gravity and larger stability margin, reducing the likelihood of tipping and falls. This structural asymmetry directly addresses the harm reduction goal while maintaining the elevated phone position for visibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates cushioning elements at the phone contact points on the base plate. These cushioning features are built into the structure beforehand to protect the phone from damage in case of accidental drops or impacts, addressing the harm reduction requirement while maintaining the elevated position for visibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

4Stability of the object's composition

If a long base plate is used to prevent tipping, then stability is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveanti-tipping stabilityVSAvoidbase plate structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the base plate with the storage compartment structure. The extended base plate simultaneously serves as the structural foundation for stability and forms the enclosure walls and bottom of the storage compartment. This integration allows the long base plate to provide stability without adding separate structural components, thereby resolving the contradiction between stability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20230179250A1Mobile phone holder with storage compartment

Publication Date: 2023.06.08 SOSAN FOLARIN O

AI summary

A phone stand with a storage compartment, for supporting an object such as a cell phone is comprised of a section with a trough in the front in which to place the cell phone or mobile device, which in some embodiments has springy tabs comprising the front of the trough, a backwall of the trough that is slanted and is the front section of the storage compartment, and a storage compartment having a cavity, the storage compartment may have a top, either whole or with a cutout for access, and may be of different sizes, and the top may be fixed, or it may he hinged, or it may lift off, another embodiment forms a storage compartment with a flat surface that it is placed on, another embodiment permits side access to the storage compartment, a third embodiment with a raised trough allows cables to be routed through the storage compartment to the cell phone or mobile device.