Trapezoidal Display Box Assembly for Self-Supporting Arch Structures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cardboard displays are not designed to effectively showcase products at great heights without additional support, lacking the structural integrity to hold large media displays above corridors in supermarkets and shopping centers.
Innovation Solution
A trapezoidal display box design with adjustable flaps and cutouts allows for self-supported arched structures when units are mounted between shelves, using a locking system to maintain the arch shape and support pressure from top to bottom without external support, enabling the display of large media at high heights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If traditional cardboard displays are mounted on the floor or attached to columns, then they can support product displays, but they cannot effectively showcase products at great heights
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into multiple modular units that can be assembled together to form arches at different heights. Each unit contains standardized coupling flaps and cutouts that enable connection between units, allowing the structure to reach greater heights while maintaining structural integrity through distributed load bearing.
Solution Approach 2:
The display units are designed with curved arch shapes rather than straight vertical structures. This curvature distributes mechanical stresses more effectively along the arch form, enabling the displays to support themselves at greater heights without additional external support while maintaining structural strength.
2Ease of manufacture
If display boxes are designed with fixed geometry, then manufacturing is simplified, but they cannot adapt to different mounting configurations and heights
Solution Approach 1:
The display units incorporate adjustable coupling flaps and cutouts that can accommodate different mounting configurations. The flaps can be positioned at various angles and the cutouts can receive connectors at different locations, allowing the same standardized unit to adapt to multiple mounting scenarios while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through standardized base geometry.
Solution Approach 2:
Each display unit is designed as a universal module that can function in multiple positions and configurations. The standardized coupling mechanisms allow units to be assembled in various arrangements (arches, walls, corners) and at different heights, providing versatility while keeping the base design simple for easy manufacture.
3Stability of the object's composition
If additional support structures are added to hold displays at high heights, then structural stability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The display units are designed to be self-supporting through their arch geometry and interlocking coupling mechanisms. The units themselves provide the structural stability needed to hold displays at high heights without requiring additional external support structures, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The arch-shaped design of the display units provides inherent structural stability through the arch form, which naturally distributes and redirects forces. This curvature allows the displays to support themselves at high heights without additional support structures, maintaining stability while minimizing device complexity.
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AI summary
Wherein the formation of the communication arch (A) over a consumer corridor, such as in large sales points, displaying at a height, a media (M) related to a certain product. For such, after mounting a display box (35) using the cutting and creasing design, its units are mounted to one another by coupling through the coupling flaps (29) of one unit to the cutouts (4) corresponding to the subsequent unit. After mounting the assembly, when it is raised and has its peripheral units settled over two opposite shelves, such as in a supermarket corridor, through the trapezoidal geometry of the display boxes (35) combined to slide coupling flaps (29) and cutouts (4) between the units (35), there is a radial movement and positioning for its tops while its bottoms meet, providing the structuring of the assembly, in an arch shape, supporting the resulting stresses imposed vertically from top to bottom of the arch formed. Therefore, the communication arch (A) formed can receive a large media at its highest point.