Spliced Display Module Positioning for Small-Pitch Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current spliced display screen technologies face misalignment issues during installation, particularly for small-pitch displays below 1.5 mm, leading to pixel dislocation and inaccurate alignment, which complicates deployment and increases costs due to the need for complex box bodies and precise assembly methods.

Innovation Solution

A spliced display screen design featuring positioning mechanisms with pins and grooves, combined with elastic structures, that allow for precise alignment and secure attachment of adjacent modules without the need for a box body, enabling accurate splicing and simplified assembly by using positioning pins that rotate within grooves and return to their initial position via elastic structures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If complex box bodies and precise assembly methods are used to achieve accurate alignment, then manufacturing precision is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealignment accuracyVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the positioning function from the complex box body structure and implements it through simple positioning pins and grooves integrated directly into the display modules. This eliminates the need for separate box bodies while maintaining alignment accuracy through the pin-groove engagement mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The positioning pins automatically engage with grooves when modules are brought together, and the elastic structures automatically push the pins back into grooves if they become disengaged. This self-correcting mechanism ensures accurate alignment without requiring complex external positioning systems or precise manual assembly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If positioning mechanisms with elastic structures are used, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassembly easeVSAvoidmechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The elastic structures connected to positioning pins create a self-service mechanism that automatically guides modules into correct alignment and maintains engagement. The elastic push ensures pins remain engaged with grooves without requiring external fastening mechanisms, simplifying both assembly and disassembly operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The positioning mechanism incorporates dynamic elastic structures that allow the pins to move flexibly during assembly and maintain constant contact with grooves. This dynamic capability enables easy module replacement and reconfiguration while ensuring reliable positioning, transforming a static rigid connection into an adaptable system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

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 solution ensures accurate alignment and simplifies the assembly process, reducing deployment costs and eliminating the necessity for box bodies in small-pitch spliced display screens, while allowing for easy module disassembly and maintenance.

Implementation Method 1

an elastic structure arranged corresponding to the positioning pin, one end of the elastic structure being connected to the display module and the other end of the elastic structure being connected to the positioning pin

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS11908352B2Spliced display screens
Publication Date: 2024.02.20 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a spliced display screen, which includes a plurality of display modules arranged closely and one or more positioning mechanisms installed on each display module, each positioning mechanism includes: a positioning pin and a groove, the one or more positioning pins are clamped in the one or more grooves, the one or more positioning pins and the one or more grooves cooperate to restrict relative movement in the horizontal direction of two adjacent display modules; an elastic structure arranged corresponding to the positioning pin, one end being connected to the display module and the other end being connected to the positioning pin; in response to being subjected to an external force, the one or more positioning pins rotate along a predetermined direction relative to the one or more grooves and leave the one or more grooves; in response to being disengaged from the external force, the one or more positioning pins return to an initial position along a direction opposite to the predetermined direction through the respective elastic structures.