Rotatable Display Support for Image Orientation Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image forming apparatuses face challenges in displaying vertically or horizontally oriented images without compromising visibility, as existing mechanisms fail to efficiently rotate and position display units to accommodate various image orientations.
Innovation Solution
The image forming apparatus incorporates a support mechanism that allows the display unit to rotate about specific straight lines, enabling it to switch between horizontally-long and vertically-long attitudes, ensuring the display unit's orientation aligns with the image orientation, thereby improving visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the display unit is fixed in a horizontal orientation, then the structure is simple and stable, but vertically oriented images cannot be displayed properly
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit is made rotatable about a vertical axis rather than being fixed, allowing it to dynamically change orientation between horizontal and vertical positions. This dynamic capability enables the display to adapt to different image orientations while maintaining structural simplicity through a single rotational degree of freedom.
2Ease of operation
If the display unit is rotated to match image orientation, then image visibility is improved, but the distance from the display to the user may increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of moving the display forward or backward to adjust visibility, the solution rotates the display unit about a vertical axis, changing its orientation in the horizontal plane rather than its distance from the user. This dimensional change allows the display to present images in different orientations while maintaining a constant distance from the user.
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AI summary
A support mechanism supports a display unit such that the display unit is rotatable about a specific straight line between a horizontally-long attitude and a vertically-long attitude. The support mechanism supports the display unit in a state where, when the display unit is in the horizontally-long attitude, a right side surface of the display unit is set along a vertical plane provided along a right side surface of a main body. The support mechanism supports the display unit such that the display unit is rotatable counterclockwise from the horizontally-long attitude to the vertically-long attitude. When the display unit is in the horizontally-long attitude, a distance from the right side surface of the display unit to the specific straight line is equal to or larger than a distance from a lower surface of the display unit to the specific straight line.