Vertical Display Panel Packaging with Support Division Plates

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional packaging structures for display panels are inadequate in preventing damage due to gravity, limiting the number of panels that can be stacked and increasing the risk of breakage during impact or shock.

Innovation Solution

A packaging structure that includes a box body with inner support division plates perpendicular to the upper surface, allowing display panels to be vertically placed, and a method that secures the circuit board using movable pressing blocks and expanded materials to absorb impact, thereby reducing damage and increasing the number of panels that can be stacked.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If display panels are stacked horizontally in conventional packaging structures, then the packaging structure is simple to manufacture, but the number of panels that can be stacked is limited and the panels are easily damaged due to gravity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of panels stackedVSAvoidpanel damage risk
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the stacking orientation from horizontal to vertical by introducing support division plates that extend from the bottom surface to the top surface of the box body, creating vertical placement spaces. This dimensional change allows multiple panels to be stacked vertically without pressing on each other due to gravity, thereby increasing the number of panels that can be packaged while reducing damage risk.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Productivity

If more display panels are stacked in one packaging structure, then productivity increases, but the panels are more likely to be damaged by impact or shock

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of panels stackedVSAvoidimpact and shock damage
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces cushioning structures including foam materials filled in the placement spaces and circuit board pressing blocks that can move to press the circuit boards. These cushioning measures are prepared in advance to absorb impact and shock during transportation, protecting the panels even when multiple panels are stacked vertically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Solution Approach 2:

The support division plates act as intermediary structures between the box body and the display panels, providing stable vertical support. Additionally, foam materials serve as intermediaries to absorb impact forces, preventing direct transmission of shock to the panels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If display panels are vertically placed with support division plates, then the number of panels that can be stacked increases and damage is reduced, but the packaging structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepanel protectionVSAvoidpackaging structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the box body into multiple vertical placement spaces using support division plates, creating independent compartments for each panel. This segmentation allows panels to be placed vertically without interfering with each other, improving protection while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure that can be easily manufactured.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10065793B2Packaging structure and packaging method for display panel
Publication Date: 2018.09.04 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

A packaging structure and a packing method for a display panel are provided, the display panel includes a display panel body (201) and a circuit board (202), and the packaging structure of the display panel includes: a box body (301) including an inner chamber and an opening at an upper surface of the box body (301); and at least one support division plate (302) provided in the inner chamber of the box body. The support division plate (302) is configured to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the box body (301) and to divide the inner chamber of the box body (301) into a plurality of vertical placement spaces, so that each of the placement spaces is configured for the display panel (20) to be vertically placed therein with a display surface of the display panel body (201) placed in the placement space being perpendicular to the upper surface (w) of the box body. The packaging structure of the display panel can increase the number of placed display panels (20), and decrease the damage to the display panels (20).