Planar Display Mounting Assembly With Hidden Adjustable Brackets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing planar display assembly mounting systems, such as mirror assemblies, face challenges in providing adjustable and secure attachment to upright support surfaces while minimizing visibility of the mounting hardware and optimizing adhesive usage.
Innovation Solution
A planar display assembly with an array of fasteners on its rear surface, featuring polygon-shaped mounting plates and adjustable studs that engage with a metal bracket, allowing for linear and lateral adjustment, and utilizing a cleat with deformations to limit lateral movement, ensuring secure and adjustable attachment with minimal adhesive usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional sheet metal mounting plates with aligned axes are used, then the mounting structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the mounting hardware remains visible and the system lacks adjustability
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting plate is segmented into multiple functional zones: a polygonal base plate for adhesive attachment, multiple vertices serving as adjustment points, and mounting holes positioned at specific locations. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of each vertex while maintaining overall structural integrity, resolving the contradiction between adjustability and structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting system transitions from a fixed rigid structure to a dynamic adjustable system. The polygonal mounting plate allows rotational adjustment around the adhesive center, and the studs can be repositioned at different vertices to accommodate various display sizes and weights, providing adaptability without complex mechanisms.
2Reliability
If multiple adhesive application points are used to secure mounting plates, then the adhesive bonding is stronger, but the adhesive usage increases and the mounting plates become less visible
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting plate design concentrates adhesive application at specific localized areas (the polygonal base plate center) rather than distributing it across the entire surface. This localized adhesive application maintains strong bonding while minimizing adhesive consumption and keeping the mounting hardware less visible from the front.
3Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable studs are used for linear adjustment perpendicular to the pane, then the display can be positioned at various distances from the support surface, but the mounting structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The studs serve multiple functions: they provide linear adjustment perpendicular to the pane for spacing control, act as positioning elements at different vertices for angular adjustment, and function as attachment points for the display unit. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate adjustment mechanisms, maintaining structural simplicity while providing adaptability.
4Ease of manufacture
If the mounting plates are oriented with axes parallel to the mirror, then the mounting structure is straightforward, but the vertex orientation cannot optimize adhesive distribution
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting plate uses an asymmetric polygonal shape rather than a symmetric rectangular form. This asymmetry allows the vertices to be optimally positioned relative to the adhesive application area, enabling better adhesive distribution and bonding efficiency while maintaining ease of manufacture through standard polygonal forming processes.
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AI summary
A planar display assembly is provided with a pane with a front reflective surface and a rear surface. An array of mounting plates is provided, each with a first fastener, and a polygonal mounting plate adhered to the rear surface by an adhesive. A plurality of second fasteners is each engaged with one of the array of first fasteners for linear adjustment relative to the pane in a direction generally perpendicular to the pane to support the planar display assembly upon an upright support surface. Each mounting plate is oriented upon the pane rear surface such that at least one vertex extends away from the corresponding first fastener in a direction toward another sequential first fastener within the array of first fasteners. A metal bracket is adapted to be mounted to the upright support surface. The bracket has at least one enclosed cleat to receive two of the second fasteners.