Supporting Material Hole Layout to Protect Electronic Device Legs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing supporting materials for electronic devices in packaging boxes often deform the leg portions of the devices due to their layout and arrangement, making it difficult to effectively cushion external forces and maintain the device's structural integrity during transportation.
Innovation Solution
A supporting material with a plate-shaped portion featuring holes that accommodate the leg portions, ensuring the thickness and depth of these holes match or exceed the leg protrusion, combined with cushioning materials on the opposite surface, to distribute impact and prevent deformation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If cushioning materials are disposed at positions away from leg portions to avoid deformation, then leg portions are protected from deformation, but the arrangement of cushioning materials becomes difficult due to dense or irregular arrangement of leg portions
Solution Approach 1:
The supporting material is segmented into a plate-shaped portion with multiple holes, where each hole corresponds to a leg portion. This segmentation allows the cushioning material to be separated into multiple smaller pieces, each placed in a hole, thereby avoiding the difficulty of arranging large cushioning materials around densely arranged leg portions while still protecting all leg portions from deformation
Solution Approach 2:
The holes in the plate-shaped portion serve as intermediaries between the cushioning materials and the leg portions. The cushioning materials are placed in the holes, which then transmit the cushioning effect to the leg portions, allowing protection without direct contact between cushioning materials and leg portions, thus avoiding arrangement difficulties
2Strength
If cushioning materials are placed directly on the plate-shaped portion to support the electronic apparatus, then support function is improved, but leg portions may be deformed due to load concentration
Solution Approach 1:
The supporting function is segmented by creating multiple holes in the plate-shaped portion, allowing the load to be distributed to multiple discrete points (the holes) rather than concentrated on a continuous surface. This segmentation enables the cushioning materials in each hole to independently support the leg portions, maintaining overall support capability while preventing deformation through distributed loading
Solution Approach 2:
The plate-shaped portion has different local qualities: areas with holes provide cushioning and deformation protection, while the surrounding plate material provides structural support. This local differentiation allows the supporting material to simultaneously achieve strong support capability and protection against leg portion deformation
Data Source
AI summary
In a supporting material having a plate-shaped portion that supports an electronic apparatus, in a packaged state, the plate-shaped portion has holes that receives a plurality of leg portions provided on a bottom surface of the electronic apparatus, and a thickness dimension of the plate-shaped portion and a depth dimension of the holes are equal to or larger than a protrusion dimension of the leg portions from the bottom surface.