Supporting Stand Dual-Rail Bracket Height and Tilt Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current supporting stands for flat display devices and AIO PCs either only adjust height or tilting angle, lacking a single solution that integrates both functions, limiting user flexibility in positioning these devices.

Innovation Solution

A supporting stand with a sliding rail structure featuring a first rail for height adjustment and a second rail, either continuous or independent, that allows for tilting angle adjustment, enabling the user to freely adjust both height and tilting angle of the object.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a supporting stand is designed to adjust only height or only tilting angle, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the adaptability and user freedom are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadjustment functionalityVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines height adjustment and tilting angle adjustment functions into a single supporting stand structure. The bracket is designed with a sliding mechanism that can move along a guide rail to adjust height, while simultaneously rotating around a pivot point to adjust tilting angle. This merging of functions allows the stand to support devices in various positions and orientations, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The supporting stand is designed as a universal device that can perform multiple functions: height adjustment, tilting angle adjustment, and device support. The bracket structure incorporates both linear sliding capability (for height adjustment) and rotational capability (for tilting adjustment), making it a multi-functional device that adapts to different usage scenarios while maintaining a unified structural design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If a supporting stand integrates both height adjustment and tilting angle adjustment, then user freedom and adaptability are improved, but the structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser freedomVSAvoidstructural design
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The bracket is segmented into functional components: a sliding mechanism for height adjustment and a rotating mechanism for tilting adjustment. The sliding mechanism includes a sliding portion that moves along a guide rail, while the rotating mechanism includes a pivot point that allows angular adjustment. This segmentation of functions into distinct mechanical components enables independent control of height and tilting angle, improving ease of operation while managing structural complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The supporting stand incorporates dynamic adjustment capabilities where the bracket can transition between different positions and orientations. The sliding mechanism allows continuous height adjustment, and the rotating mechanism enables continuous tilting angle adjustment. This dynamic design provides users with freedom to position the supported device according to various needs, enhancing ease of operation through flexible, multi-degree-of-freedom adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10451213B2Supporting stand
Publication Date: 2019.10.22 WISTRON CORP
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  • US10451213B2 patent drawing
  • US10451213B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A supporting stand includes a base and a bracket. The base has a sliding rail structure, and the sliding rail structure includes a first rail and a second rail. The bracket is slidably disposed on the sliding rail structure and adapted to slide along the first rail and the second rail. When the bracket slides along the first rail, the bracket moves upward or downward, and when the bracket slides along the second rail, a tilting angle of the bracket relative to the base is changed.