Rotatable Protective Cover with Integrated Cable Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic apparatuses face challenges in providing a protective cover that allows for both portable and stand-up usage while efficiently managing accessories like cables, often requiring separate carrying and lacking convenient angle adjustment for improved visibility and operability.
Innovation Solution
The electronic apparatus incorporates a protection cover with a storage portion for accessories, a rotatable stand base and support surface with high friction, and a convex stopper for maintaining the stand-up position, allowing for adjustable angles and secure placement without obstructing the display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a protection cover is designed to protect the display and enable stand-up usage, then the display is protected and visibility is improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional structural components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the protection cover with multiple functional components including a storage portion for accessories, a rotatable stand base, and a support surface into a single integrated structure. This merging reduces the need for separate components while maintaining display protection and stand-up functionality, thereby addressing the complexity issue.
Solution Approach 2:
The protection cover is designed to perform multiple functions: protecting the display, enabling stand-up usage, storing accessories like cables, and providing angle adjustment. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate devices and simplifies the overall system while maintaining reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a storage portion is added to the protection cover for accessories, then portability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The storage portion is integrated directly into the protection cover structure, combining accessory storage with the protective function. This merging allows the cover to serve multiple purposes (protection + storage) without requiring separate carrying devices, thereby improving portability while managing complexity through integration.
3Ease of operation
If the stand base and support surface are made rotatable for angle adjustment, then visibility and operability are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The stand base and support surface are designed to be rotatable, providing dynamic angle adjustment capability. This allows the display to be positioned at various angles for optimal visibility and operability. The rotatable mechanism is implemented in a way that maintains structural integrity while enabling ease of operation.
4Stability of the object's composition
If a convex stopper is added to maintain stand-up position, then stability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The convex stopper is designed to automatically engage with the stand base structure to maintain the stand-up position without requiring additional active control mechanisms. This self-service approach provides stability through passive mechanical engagement, minimizing the complexity of control systems while ensuring reliable position maintenance.
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 design enhances portability, protects the display, improves visibility and operability by allowing adjustable angles, and integrates cable storage without interfering with the display's visibility.
Implementation Method 1
The inner surface of the stand base is formed of a material having a high friction coefficient, thus making it difficult for the electronic apparatus to slide
Data Source
AI summary
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a main body, a cover, and a storage portion. The main body includes a display unit. The cover includes a first surface at which the main body is supported, and a second surface on which the main body is placed. The storage portion is provided between the first and second surfaces. The cover includes a first use mode in which the display unit is covered, and a second use mode in which the display unit is exposed, and the first and second surfaces are rotatable with respect to each other in the second use mode.