Rotatable Display With Extension Mechanism For Input Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computing devices have cumbersome user input mechanisms that lack speed and accuracy, necessitating innovative solutions for improving interaction efficiency and usability.
Innovation Solution
A computing device design featuring a base portion with an input region and a display portion connected via a hinge and extension mechanism, allowing the display to rotate and translate between closed, open, and flat configurations, enabling enhanced user interaction and flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the display portion is made fixed and integrated with the base portion, then the device structure is simple and stable, but the user interaction speed and accuracy are reduced due to cumbersome input mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The display portion is made dynamically adjustable through rotation about a hinge axis and translation along guides, allowing it to move between closed, open, and flat positions. This dynamic capability enables the display to be optimally positioned for user interaction, thereby improving input speed and accuracy while maintaining a relatively simple overall device structure.
2Ease of operation
If the display portion is made rotatable and extendable, then the accessibility and usability are improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional hinge and extension mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The display portion incorporates dynamic movement capabilities through rotation about a hinge axis and translation along guides, enabling it to adjust between closed, open, and flat positions. This dynamic adjustability optimizes display accessibility and usability for different user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The extension member is configured to translate within the base portion structure, with the hinge portion and extension mechanism nested within the overall device framework. This nesting approach allows the display to achieve multiple positions while minimizing the increase in overall device complexity.
3Ease of operation
If the extension member translates within the base portion, then the display can be positioned optimally for usability, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The extension member is configured to automatically translate along the guides in response to the natural rotation of the display portion about the hinge axis. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for complex external actuation systems, reducing manufacturing precision requirements while still enabling optimal display positioning for usability.
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AI summary
In one general aspect, a computing device can include a base portion including an input region, and a display portion having a hinge portion. The computing device can include an extension member coupled to the base portion and configured to move the hinge portion of the display portion in a direction away from the input region in response to the display portion being rotated about an axis of the hinge portion from a closed position with respect to the base portion to a flat position with respect to the base portion.