Scanner External Cover Segmentation for Display Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The design of scanner devices with external covers is constrained by the need to accommodate supplementary functions like display units, which requires window parts that detract from the external design, limiting design freedom and increasing manufacturing costs.
Innovation Solution
A scanner device with an external cover featuring recesses between adjacent external members, allowing for the exposure of the side edge part of the housing to house information providing devices without a window, reducing material needs and maintaining design aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a window part is provided in the external cover to accommodate a display unit or supplementary function part, then the supplementary function can be integrated, but the external design is detracted from
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit is extracted from the covered area and positioned in the recess formed between adjacent external members. This allows the display unit to be accessible without requiring a window in the external cover, thus maintaining the external design while still integrating the supplementary function.
Solution Approach 2:
The display unit is positioned in a recess (vertical/dimensional change) rather than requiring a window in the cover surface. This dimensional repositioning allows the display to be accessible while maintaining the integrity of the external cover design.
2Shape
If the supplementary function part is provided at the exposed portion of the scanner body, then no window part is needed in the external cover, but design freedom is constrained
Solution Approach 1:
The external cover is segmented into multiple external members with gaps between them, forming recesses. These recesses provide additional spaces where supplementary function parts can be positioned, increasing design freedom without compromising external design integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
By utilizing the vertical space created by recesses between external members, the patent provides additional positioning options for supplementary functions beyond the traditional exposed portion placement, thereby expanding design freedom.
3Ease of manufacture
If the external cover is made as a single continuous piece, then manufacturing is simplified, but material cost increases and design flexibility decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The external cover is divided into multiple external members (first, second, third, and fourth external members) that are positioned adjacent to each other with gaps. This segmentation reduces the total material required while maintaining the cover's protective function and enabling recess formation for supplementary components.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of a uniform continuous cover, the patent applies local quality by creating specific gaps (recesses) between adjacent external members where supplementary functions are needed, while maintaining coverage in other areas.
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AI summary
A scanner device includes a scanner body enclosed by a housing and an external cover covering an outer side of the housing. The external cover is comprised of a plurality of external members. By spacing the adjacent external members apart from each other at the side edge parts of the housing, recesses are formed between the adjacent external members so as to constitute parts of the external design of the scanner body. Preferably, the side edge parts of the housing are exposed between the adjacent external members at the side edge parts of the housing, and information providing devices providing information on the scanner device are provided at the side edge parts of the housing exposed between the adjacent external members.