Reading stand
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional reading stands lack the ability to adjust the readable angle based on user requirements and cannot engage multiple bodies to increase their readable range.
Innovation Solution
A reading stand design featuring a body with a peripheral frame, multiple orifices, recesses, and shock absorbers, along with a support pedestal with extensions and non-slip parts, allowing adjustable angles and engagement with multiple bodies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional reading stand uses a fixed support pedestal with a metal block, then the structure is simple and stable, but the readable angle cannot be adjusted based on user requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The reading stand employs multiple recesses (first recesses and second recesses) at different angular positions on the peripheral frame, allowing the body to be positioned at various readable angles. The support pedestal with extensions engages with these recesses to provide adjustable angular positioning, transforming the fixed structure into a dynamic, adaptable system while maintaining structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The support pedestal is divided into multiple extensions that can engage with different recesses on the peripheral frame. This segmentation allows the single support pedestal to provide multiple discrete angular positions, enabling angle adjustment without requiring a completely complex continuous adjustment mechanism.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional reading stand uses a single body design, then the structure is simple, but it cannot engage with multiple bodies to increase readable range
Solution Approach 1:
The peripheral frame is designed with multiple recesses (both first and second recesses) that can engage with the support pedestal extensions. This universal engagement mechanism allows a single reading stand body to be positioned in multiple angular configurations, effectively increasing the readable range without requiring multiple different body designs or complex specialized mechanisms for each angle.
3Strength
If the peripheral frame lacks reinforcement structures, then the manufacturing is simpler, but the structural strength and stability are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
Reinforcement ribs are added specifically at critical locations on the peripheral frame where structural strength is most needed, particularly at the corners and along the edges where the recesses are positioned. This localized reinforcement provides the necessary structural integrity without requiring complete redesign or heavy reinforcement of the entire frame, maintaining ease of manufacture while improving strength.
Data Source
AI summary
A reading stand contains: a body and a support pedestal. The body includes an accommodation space, a peripheral frame, multiple orifices, two central hanging orifices, a reinforcement rib, two opposite second recesses, and four shock absorbers arranged on four corners of an outer periphery of the peripheral frame respectively. The stand is hollow and is formed in a rectangle shape. The support pedestal includes two extensions arranged on two opposite long sides thereof respectively, and the support pedestal includes two non-slip parts covered on the two extensions individually. One of the two extensions of the support pedestal is engaged with the two opposite first recesses or the two opposite second recesses so as to change a readable angle of the body.