Sliding Split-Screen Attachment for Variable-Size Notebook Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing split-screen display solutions for notebook computers are cumbersome, inconvenient, and fail to adapt to various screen sizes, lacking compactness and folding/supporting capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A split-screen display device comprising left and right support plates with slide arms, clamping mechanisms, hinge fits, and a support mechanism that allows for folding and independent standing, enabling secure attachment to notebook screens of different sizes and facilitating versatile use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an external display is connected to extend the notebook computer screen, then multi-screen display is achieved, but the device becomes cumbersome and inconvenient for operation
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is nested within the notebook computer housing, allowing the screen to be stored inside the device body when not in use and deployed outward when needed. This nesting approach eliminates the need for separate external displays while maintaining multi-screen functionality, directly resolving the contradiction between adaptability and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The display screen is designed with movable and adjustable characteristics, allowing it to be extended, retracted, and positioned at different angles. This dynamic design enables the screen to adapt to various usage scenarios while remaining integrated with the notebook, providing both multi-screen capability and operational convenience.
2Adaptability or versatility
If an external display is used for split-screen display, then multi-screen functionality is achieved, but the device lacks compactness and portability
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is nested within the notebook computer housing, allowing the screen to be stored inside the device body when not in use. This nesting approach eliminates the need for separate external displays while maintaining split-screen functionality, directly resolving the contradiction between adaptability and compactness.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a fixed display structure is used, then the display is stable, but the device cannot adapt to various notebook computer screen sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is designed with adjustable positioning mechanisms that allow it to be moved and fixed at multiple positions. This dynamic adjustability enables the display to adapt to various notebook screen sizes while maintaining stability during use, resolving the contradiction between stability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The display structure is designed with universal adaptability, allowing it to work with different notebook computer screen sizes through adjustable positioning. The same device structure can accommodate various screen dimensions, providing both stability and universality.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the display structure is made complex to achieve folding and supporting capabilities, then versatility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display structure is divided into separate functional modules: a screen portion, a support mechanism, and a housing integration system. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function (folding, supporting, or providing structure) independently, achieving versatility while keeping the overall device complexity manageable through modular design.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a split-screen display device for a notebook computer screen, which comprises a left support plate and a right support plate, wherein a left slide arm is formed at an edge of the left support plate, a right slide aim is formed at an edge of the right support plate, the right slide arm and the left slide arm are parallel up and down, the left slide arm is inserted into the right support plate and the two are in a slide fit, the right slide aim is inserted into the left support plate and the two are in a slide fit, clamping mechanisms for clamping a notebook computer screen are respectively provided at an upper left corner of the left support plate and an upper right corner of the right support plate, a left display screen is provided at a left edge of the left support plate and the two are in a hinge fit, a right display screen is provided at a right edge of the right support plate and the two are in a hinge fit, and a support mechanism capable of being flipped outward a predetermined angle is provided at a back side of the left support plate or the right support plate. The present disclosure achieves a split-screen display and can adapt to notebook computer screens of various sizes. Moreover, the present disclosure is compact in volume and has both folding and supporting capabilities, so that user needs and market requirements are satisfied well.