Rollable Display Panel with Shape Memory Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing outdoor advertisement and disaster prevention systems require constant deployment of large-sized displays, which is inefficient and wasteful, as they are always visible and consume resources even when not in use.
Innovation Solution
A support type display device featuring a flexible display panel that can be rolled and unrolled as needed, utilizing shape maintaining means such as shape storage alloys or gas injection mechanisms to transition between rolled and unrolled states, allowing for efficient deployment only when necessary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a large-sized advertising board or screen is constantly deployed outdoors, then the visual transfer effect is enhanced and advertisement/disaster prevention functionality is available, but resource waste increases and energy consumption occurs even when not in use
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is designed to be dynamically deployable and storable. It can be unrolled and fixed to the support when advertisement or disaster prevention is needed, and rolled up and stored when not in use. This dynamic configuration allows the system to adapt between deployed and stored states, providing functionality only when required and eliminating constant resource consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The display panel is temporarily deployed for specific purposes (advertisement or disaster prevention) and then recovered by rolling it up and storing it. This approach allows the system to discard the deployed state when not needed and recover the panel for future use, thereby reducing resource waste while maintaining functionality when required.
2Loss of substance
If a flexible display panel is made rollable and unrollable, then resource efficiency is improved and energy is conserved when not in use, but the device complexity increases due to shape maintaining means
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is designed to be nested within itself when rolled up, forming a compact cylindrical structure. The shape maintaining means includes a support structure that provides a mounting point for the rolled panel, allowing it to be neatly stored in a compact form factor while maintaining structural integrity during storage and deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The shape maintaining means is pre-configured with a support structure and fixing mechanism before deployment. When the display panel needs to be deployed, it is simply unrolled and fixed to the support, and when storage is needed, it is rolled up and fixed to the same support. This preliminary configuration of the support structure eliminates the need for complex active control mechanisms during deployment and storage operations.
3Loss of time
If the display panel is rapidly deployed for disaster prevention, then the response time is reduced, but the mechanical stress on the shape maintaining means increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel and shape maintaining means are designed to work together in a dynamic deployment system. The flexible nature of the display panel allows it to be quickly unrolled and fixed to the support structure, enabling rapid deployment for disaster prevention while the support structure absorbs and distributes the mechanical stress during this quick transition.
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
Enables efficient use of resources by allowing the display panel to be rolled up when not in use, reducing waste and conserving energy, while ensuring rapid deployment for advertisement and disaster prevention purposes.
Implementation Method 1
a pair of shape storage members made of a shape storage alloy to be rolled like a spring at a normal time and to be unrolled in a flat plate form at a predetermined temperature or more
Implementation Method 2
a heat source providing member formed integrally with the shape storage member or coupled along the shape storage member to provide a heat source to the shape storage member. Preferably, the heat source providing member is a flexible heat wire
Implementation Method 3
a pair of shape maintaining members that roll like a spring at a normal time and that unroll in a straight line form when a gas is injected and a gas injection member that injects a gas into an inlet of the shape maintaining member
Data Source
AI summary
A support-type display device (100) of the present invention comprises: a fixing member (110) which is fixed to a support (200); a display panel (120) which is fixed to one side of the fixing member (110), and has a flexible form that can be rolled and unrolled; and shape maintenance means (130) which are respectively installed along upper and lower parts of the display panel (120), and roll the display panel (120) or unroll in the shape of a flat board to maintain the rolled or unrolled state if an external force is applied. The present invention is installed on an outdoor support and is used for advertising and/or prevention, wherein a flexible display panel which can be rolled and unrolled is used such that the display panel is unrolled only when necessary, whereby the invention can be used for advertising and/or prevention.