Sliding Camera Mount for Full-Screen Mobile Terminal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Full-screen mobile phones face space constraints due to the presence of front lens assemblies, earpiece assemblies, and light-ray sensors on the front side face, limiting the increase in screen ratio and visual experience.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal design featuring a housing with a receiving groove on its top face, allowing a mounting frame with cameras to extend or retract, keeping the cameras exposed or hidden without occupying screen space, and utilizing a slidable device with a driving mechanism to manage camera positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If front lens assembly, earpiece assembly, and light-ray sensor are arranged on the front side face, then these components can function, but the screen ratio is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves the camera assembly from the front side face (2D surface) to the top edge of the housing, utilizing the third dimension (depth/edge space). This allows the camera to function while occupying minimal front screen area, thereby increasing the screen ratio without compromising component functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera assembly is extracted from the traditional front face location and repositioned to the top edge. This extraction removes the obstruction from the front screen area, enabling full-screen display while maintaining camera functionality through the repositioned assembly.
2Ease of operation
If camera assembly is placed on the front side face, then camera function is available, but visual experience is reduced due to space occupation
Solution Approach 1:
By relocating the camera assembly to the top edge of the housing rather than the front face, the patent utilizes vertical edge space instead of horizontal screen space. This dimensional shift preserves camera functionality while eliminating the visual obstruction, thereby enhancing the visual experience and full-screen effect.
3Device complexity
If fixed camera position is used, then structure is simple, but screen ratio cannot be increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a movable mounting frame that can extend and retract along the top edge of the housing. This dynamic mechanism allows the camera assembly to be positioned optimally for functionality while enabling the screen area to maximize when the camera is retracted, thus increasing the screen ratio without permanently complicating the structure.
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AI summary
A mobile terminal may include a housing (20) including a front, rear, left and right side faces (21, 22, 23, 24) and a top face (26), a receiving groove (27) may be defined on the top face (26) between the front and rear side faces (21, 22), the receiving groove (27) may penetrate the left and right side faces (23, 24); a screen (60) arranged on the front side face (21); and a mounting frame (40); a first camera (410) and a second camera (420) exposed out of the housing (20) may be provided on two side faces of the mounting frame (40) facing or away from the screen (60) respectively, the mounting frame (40) may be configured to extend out of or retract into the receiving groove (27), such that the first camera (410) may be exposed out of or hidden into the housing (20).