Rotating Multi-Monitor Pillar Display With Tapered Panels
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a demand for display apparatuses that enhance user convenience by improving durability, spatial efficiency, and thinness, while offering various functions and versatile applications across different fields and devices.
Innovation Solution
A display apparatus design featuring a housing with a pillar shape, multiple monitors that rotate around a central axis, and a driving unit housed within, where the thickness of each monitor decreases as it moves away from the housing, incorporating hinge parts with cylinder units and connection parts for efficient signal transmission and spatial utilization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple monitors are mounted on a housing, then display functionality and versatility are improved, but device complexity and spatial requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is designed to universally accommodate multiple monitors (first, second, and third monitors) through standardized coupling mechanisms. The same housing structure and coupling grooves can attach different numbers and configurations of monitors, making the system multi-functional and adaptable to various display needs without requiring different structural designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing is divided into multiple coupling grooves positioned at different locations and orientations. Each coupling groove can independently receive a monitor, allowing the system to be segmented into modular components. This segmentation enables flexible configuration where monitors can be attached or removed independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining versatility.
2Volume of moving object
If monitor thickness decreases away from the housing, then spatial efficiency is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The monitor design implements local quality variation where the thickness is intentionally different at different locations. The portion of the monitor closer to the housing has greater thickness to accommodate coupling mechanisms and connection structures, while the portion farther away has reduced thickness. This localized thickness variation optimizes spatial efficiency at the coupling interface while reducing overall material usage, and the gradient design naturally accommodates manufacturing tolerances.
3Volume of moving object
If the driving unit is integrated within the housing, then spatial efficiency is improved, but heat dissipation challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The driving unit is nested within the housing, with the housing serving as an integrated enclosure that contains both the driving unit and the monitors. This nesting arrangement maximizes spatial efficiency by utilizing the housing volume for multiple functions. The housing structure itself can incorporate heat dissipation features such as ventilation openings or thermally conductive materials to manage heat from the integrated driving unit.
Data Source
AI summary
A display apparatus includes a housing having a pillar shape, a plurality of monitors, and a driving unit received in the housing and providing driving signals to the plurality of monitors. Each of the plurality of monitors displays an image through its front surface and back surface and includes side surfaces connecting the front surface and the back surface. One side surface of the side surfaces of each of the plurality of monitors is coupled to the housing. A thickness of each of the plurality of monitors decreases as a distance from the housing increases.