Rotatable Connector Maintains Housing Periphery Distance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices with rotatable housings face challenges in maintaining the distance between their peripheries consistently across different angles, leading to misalignment and instability when folded or unfolded.
Innovation Solution
A hinge mechanism with adjustable protrusions and recesses allows the housings to rotate while maintaining a consistent distance between their peripheries, using a connector with a base and protrusions that adjust the distance between the housings to prevent changes in the periphery distance during rotation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the housings are rotatably connected to allow folding and unfolding, then the device can be changed between folded and unfolded positions, but the distance between the peripheries of the housings changes with the angle, causing misalignment and instability
Solution Approach 1:
A connector is introduced as an intermediary component between the first and second housings. The connector includes a base and protrusions that extend toward the peripheries of the housings, acting as a mediator to maintain the distance between peripheries while allowing the housings to rotate relative to each other for folding and unfolding operations
Solution Approach 2:
The protrusions on the connector are designed to automatically adjust their distance from the peripheries of the housings based on the angle between the housings. This self-adjusting mechanism ensures that the distance between peripheries remains constant without requiring external control, allowing the structure to maintain alignment through its own geometric properties
Data Source
AI summary
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a first housing; a second housing; and a connector. The first housing includes a first face and a first periphery portion provided along a periphery of the first face. The second housing includes a second face and a second periphery portion provided along a periphery of the second face and positioned near the first periphery portion. The connector includes a first portion connected to the first housing and a second portion connected to the second housing. The connector rotatably connects the first housing and the second housing with each other. The connector permits a change in a distance between the first portion and the second portion to prevent a change in a distance between the first periphery portion and the second periphery portion when the first housing and the second housing are rotated with respect to each other.