Wireless Remote Mount With Converging Rails and Larger Buttons
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless controllers have small buttons, making them difficult to use and require installation dimensions that limit placement near adjacent devices, necessitating parallel mounting rails that increase installation complexity.
Innovation Solution
A wireless remote controller with enlarged buttons and a mounting system featuring converging sidewalls that reduce the insertion height, allowing for easier alignment and installation flexibility by using a non-parallel configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If parallel mounting rails are used to secure the wireless controller, then the controller can be firmly mounted, but the installation height increases and placement near adjacent devices is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from parallel mounting rails to converging sidewalls that angle inward, changing the geometric dimension from parallel to non-parallel configuration. This dimensional change allows the mounting structure to achieve firm attachment while reducing the vertical insertion height, enabling installation closer to adjacent devices like fire alarms and room placards.
2Ease of operation
If traditional wall mounted switch size is maintained, then the controller has appropriate appearance, but the buttons become too small for easy use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by enlarging only the button areas while maintaining the overall controller dimensions similar to traditional wall switches. This allows the buttons to be sufficiently large for easy operation (improving ease of operation) without significantly increasing the total controller size (maintaining area constraints), thereby resolving the contradiction between button usability and controller size.
Data Source
AI summary
A wireless remote controller includes a housing including front and rear enclosures defining a PCB cavity, a PCB disposed within the PCB cavity, a switch, communication circuitry to generate wireless signals, and a button to actuate the switch. The button includes a button body having a button portion and first and second button sidewalls having a retaining finger to engage the support board. The button width is substantially the same as the housing width. The wireless remote controller may include a mounting cavity formed in a rear surface of the housing which includes first and second converging cavity sidewall extending from a base. A mounting plate removably secures the wireless remote controller to a wall and includes first and second converging mount sidewalls each including a rail. The cavity sidewalls and the mount sidewalls include a first and second rail and a first and second channel.