Freestanding Popup Video Display With Weighted Forklift Base
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing small-scale video display systems are cumbersome, expensive, and require complex installation, making them unsuitable for short-term uses due to transportation and deployment challenges, and they often need ground anchoring, which limits their versatility and suitability for temporary events.
Innovation Solution
A popup video display system with a weighted base and mounting portion that allows freestanding deployment using a forklift or crane, eliminating the need for ground anchoring, and featuring a digital screen component, content feeding system, and optional cladding for protection and aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If ground-anchored foundations and plinths are used to ensure stability, then the system achieves sufficient stability, but the complexity of installation and site preparation increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into separate modular components: a weighted base unit that provides stability without ground anchoring, and a display component that can be easily assembled and disassembled. This segmentation allows the base to be independently weighted for stability while the display portion remains modular and easy to install/remove.
Solution Approach 2:
The base portion uses weighted materials (such as concrete or steel) to change the mass parameter of the system, providing sufficient stability through weight rather than through ground anchoring. This parameter change allows the system to achieve stability without complex installation procedures.
2Ease of operation
If specialized lifting equipment and transportation jigs are used to move display components, then the system can be transported, but the cost and complexity of deployment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into a heavy weighted base and a lighter display component. This allows the base to be transported using standard forklift equipment while the display component can be handled separately, eliminating the need for specialized lifting equipment and complex transportation jigs.
Solution Approach 2:
The weighted base serves as an intermediary element that can be easily handled by standard forklift equipment, bridging the gap between standard transportation capabilities and the need to support a stable display system. This intermediary approach allows use of common equipment rather than specialized tools.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the system is designed as a single integrated unit with ground anchoring, then stability is ensured, but the ability to rapidly deploy and remove for temporary events is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into a permanent-weighted base and a removable display component. This allows the base to remain stationary providing stability, while the display component can be rapidly deployed and removed without affecting the base, enabling quick setup and takedown for temporary events.
Solution Approach 2:
The weighted base is prepared in advance as a stable platform, so that when deployment is needed, only the display component needs to be assembled and connected. This preliminary preparation of the base enables rapid deployment of the complete system without requiring ground anchoring or complex site preparation at the time of deployment.
Data Source
AI summary
A popup video display system is provided, which includes a digital screen component in communication with a content feeding system for displaying content, and a structural component having a weighted base portion with at least a pair of tube openings spaced to receive prongs of a forklift, and a mounting portion connecting the digital screen to the weighted base. The weighted base provides sufficient ballast and stability that the system can be deployed in a freestanding fashion without physically connecting the base portion to a substrate or ground or floor surface. Methods of deploying a popup video display system by forklift or crane are also provided.