Separate Mobile Terminal Modules for Arbitrary Flexible Display Bending
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mobile terminals with flexible OLED displays are limited in their ability to bend arbitrarily due to the presence of functional components like batteries and chips, restricting the display's shape and flexibility.
Innovation Solution
The mobile terminal design separates the display screen, battery, and machine chip elements, allowing them to transmit power and data through dedicated interfaces and wireless communication, using shape memory alloys and thermoelectric materials to enable the display to change from a rolled to an unfolded state when powered, thus allowing arbitrary bending.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If functional components (battery, chip) are integrated into the mobile terminal structure, then the terminal achieves compact design and structural stability, but the flexible display screen cannot be bent arbitrarily and is restricted by the shape of functional components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the mobile terminal into separate functional modules: display module, battery module, and chip module. Each module can be independently positioned and configured, allowing the flexible display to be bent in various directions without being constrained by the shape of integrated functional components. The segmentation enables the display to achieve arbitrary bending while maintaining structural organization through modular design.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display screen is made flexible to enable arbitrary bending, then the adaptability and versatility of the terminal are improved, but the structural stability and reliability are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic positioning mechanisms that allow functional components to be adjusted and secured at different positions relative to the flexible display. This dynamic configuration enables the system to maintain structural stability when the display is in any bent state, while still allowing arbitrary bending when needed. The dynamic support structures adapt to the display's shape changes without compromising reliability.
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 configuration allows the flexible display screen to be bent into any shape without restriction, solving the issue of being confined by the shape of functional components and enhancing the terminal's flexibility and usability.
Implementation Method 1
the display screen element further comprises a memory deformation element, the memory deformation element comprises at least two states, when the display screen element and the battery element do not transmit power and data through the second data interface and the first data interface, the display screen element is integrally in a form of a roll paper state, and when the display screen element and the battery element transmit power and data through the second data interface and the first data interface, the display screen element integrally in a form of an unfolded state
Implementation Method 2
the control unit comprises a heat generating resistor to convert electrical energy into thermal energy for transforming the deformation body to the unfolded state when power is detected
Implementation Method 3
the power supply unit comprises a thermoelectric material layer, the thermoelectric material layer is at least partially wrapped by the machine chip element
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AI summary
A novel mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a display screen element, a battery element, and a machine chip element separately disposed. Because the main functional components in the mobile terminal, such as the display screen element, the battery element, and the machine chip, are arranged separately, a shape of the display screen is no longer restricted by the shape of the functional components, such as the battery and the chip, and can be set to any shapes. Thus, a flexible screen can be bent arbitrarily, and the problems that the flexible display screen disposed in the conventional mobile terminal is subject to the shape of functional components and cannot be bent arbitrarily are solved.