Rotating Display Assembly for Stable Portrait-Landscape Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing central control panels in vehicles are fixed as horizontal or vertical screens and cannot be arbitrarily rotated to meet user flexibility needs.
Innovation Solution
A displaying device with a rotating assembly that includes a displaying panel, a clamping structure, and a driving assembly, allowing the panel to switch between horizontal and vertical orientations through a tenon and fixing structure system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the displaying panel is directly fixed to the instrument panel beam in horizontal or vertical orientation, then the installation is simple and stable, but the user cannot rotate the screen arbitrarily to switch between horizontal and vertical orientations
Solution Approach 1:
The clamping structure is divided into multiple independent components: first clamping structures connected to the displaying panel, second clamping structures coupled to the first clamping structures, and a rotating assembly with driving mechanisms. This segmentation allows each component to perform specific functions while maintaining overall rotatability, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a dynamic clamping system that transitions from fixed mounting to rotatable mounting. The first and second clamping structures are designed with rotating joints and driving assemblies that enable the displaying panel to dynamically switch between horizontal and vertical orientations, while the matched fixing grooves and tenon structures ensure stability during rotation.
2Ease of operation
If a rotating mechanism is added to enable screen orientation switching, then the user flexibility is improved, but the connection stability and signal transmission continuity may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates matched fixing grooves and tenon structures in advance within the clamping assemblies. These pre-designed coupling features ensure that when the displaying panel rotates to any orientation (horizontal or vertical), the connections are automatically engaged and locked, maintaining connection stability and signal transmission continuity throughout the rotation process.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotating assembly acts as an intermediary mechanism between the fixed instrument panel beam and the displaying panel. It includes driving members, rotating assemblies, and clamping structures that mediate the transition between orientations while ensuring continuous signal transmission and stable connection, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and reliability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple clamping structures and fixing structures are used to enable rotation, then the screen can switch orientations smoothly, but the device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The clamping structures are designed with multi-functionality: the first clamping structures serve both as mounting interfaces for the displaying panel and as rotating joints; the second clamping structures serve both as coupling mechanisms and as interfaces with the instrument panel beam. The matched fixing grooves and tenon structures provide universal compatibility for both horizontal and vertical orientations, reducing the need for separate components for each orientation and thereby easing manufacturing.
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AI summary
A rotating assembly for a displaying device allowing vertical and horizontal presentation as a user requires. A displaying assembly, a transmitting assembly, and a driving assembly are included in the displaying device. The displaying assembly includes a displaying panel and a first clamping structure, the first clamping structure includes fixing structures with tenon structures in between. The transmitting assembly includes a second clamping structure and a connecting structure, the clamping structure comprises a clamping joint, the clamping joint is coupled to the tenon structure, and fixing grooves are defined on the second clamping structure. The fixing grooves are matched with the fixing structures, an end of the connecting structure is fixedly connected to the second clamping structure. The driving assembly includes a rotating driving member, an output shaft of the driving member is connected to the connecting structure.