Rear Plate Adhesive Assembly for Stable Yet Repairable Housing

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge lies in integrating multiple functionalities into a compact portable electronic device while ensuring structural integrity and ease of use, particularly in handling the device's components and maintaining a secure connection between the housing and rear plate.

Innovation Solution

The electronic device incorporates a housing with a support structure featuring holes and spaces, a socket to close these holes, adhesive members with distinct coupling structures, and a handle that folds into a space, enhancing the connection and handling of the rear plate.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple functionalities are packed into a portable electronic device, then the device provides diverse functions (communication, entertainment, security), but the device size and structural complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctional versatilityVSAvoidstructural complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The adhesive member is divided into multiple sections (first adhesive section, second adhesive section, third adhesive section) with different properties. Each section is positioned at specific locations (first gap, second gap, third gap) to provide targeted bonding strength and flexibility where needed, allowing the device to accommodate multiple components without requiring a completely different adhesive solution for each

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different sections of the adhesive member have different characteristics - the first adhesive section has first adhesive properties, the second has second adhesive properties, and the third has third adhesive properties. This local differentiation allows each gap to be filled with appropriate adhesive characteristics based on the specific bonding requirements of that location, enabling secure attachment of diverse components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Stability of the object's composition

If the rear plate is securely connected to the housing, then structural stability is improved, but the device becomes harder to disassemble and repair

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoiddisassembly ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The adhesive member incorporates a flexible section that can deform and a release section that allows for controlled separation. This dynamic characteristic enables the adhesive to maintain strong bonding under normal conditions while permitting disassembly when needed, balancing structural stability with repairability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The adhesive member acts as an intermediary between the housing and rear plate, providing a bonding interface that can be designed with specific release characteristics. This intermediary layer allows the connection to be strong during use but controllable during disassembly, facilitating repair without damaging the structural components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Strength

If adhesive members are placed in multiple gaps, then bonding strength is improved, but the manufacturing process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebonding strengthVSAvoidmanufacturing simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple adhesive sections with different properties are combined into a single integrated adhesive member. This unified structure is positioned between the housing and rear plate, simplifying the manufacturing process by reducing the number of separate adhesive components that need to be handled and positioned, while still providing differentiated bonding characteristics in different gaps

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This configuration provides a robust and user-friendly mechanism for securing the rear plate to the housing, ensuring structural stability and ease of handling, while accommodating the device's diverse functionalities in a compact form.

Implementation Method 1

an adhesive member coupled to the rear plate and the support structure

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesive: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentEP4700539A1Electronic device including rear plate
Publication Date: 2026.02.25 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may be provided. The electronic device may comprise a housing including a support structure, and a rear plate, disposed to face at least a portion of the support structure with a first gap interposed therebetween, the support structure including a first hole and a second hole formed around the first hole and connected to a first space within the housing, a socket configured to be disposed to close the first hole and the second hole and at least partially accommodated in the housing, an adhesive member coupled to the rear plate and the support structure, and including a first adhesive member and a second adhesive member disposed in different sections of the first gap, and a handle coupled to the first adhesive member and accommodated in the first space in a folded state where the handle is folded at least once.