Display assembly using structural adhesive

A display assembly comprising a thermal management substructure comprising multiple layers, said display assembly created by a process comprising the steps of:

• moving, by way of a robot, a first panel of the thermal management substructure to a table;
• securing said first panel to said table;
• mixing, by way of a computer-controlled system, multiple components of a structural adhesive;
• depositing, by way of a robotic system, said structural adhesive along portions of said first panel corresponding to planned locations of troughs of a corrugated layer of the thermal management substructure;
• placing, by way of the robot, the corrugated layer atop the first panel such that the structural adhesive deposited at the first panel is interposed between the troughs and the first panel;
• depositing, by way of the robotic system, additional amounts of the structural adhesive along ridges of said corrugated layer;
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• placing, by way of the robot, a second panel of thermal management substructure atop the corrugated layer such that the additional amounts of the structural adhesive deposited at the corrugated layer are interposed between the ridges and the second panel.

A display assembly comprising a thermal management substructure comprising a first heat exchange substructure and a second heat exchange substructure, said second heat exchange substructure comprising multiple layers, said display assembly created by a process comprising the steps of:

• moving, by way of a robot, a first panel to a table;
• activating a vacuum system at said table to secure said first panel to said table;
• mixing, by way of a computer-controlled system, multiple components of a structural adhesive, wherein said structural adhesive comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising methyl methacrylate and glass beads of a predetermined size;
• depositing, by way of a robotic system, said structural adhesive along portions of said first panel corresponding to planned locations of troughs of a corrugated layer in spaced apart lines;
• placing, by way of the robot, the corrugated layer atop the first panel such that the structural adhesive deposited at the first panel is interposed between the troughs and the first panel;
• depositing, by way of the robotic system, additional amounts of the structural adhesive along ridges of said corrugated layer in spaced apart lines;
• placing, by way of the robot, a second panel atop the corrugated layer such that the additional amounts of the structural adhesive deposited at the corrugated layer are interposed between the ridges and the second panel;
• depositing, by way of the robotic system, additional amounts of the structural adhesive along the second panel corresponding to planned locations of a first one of the multiple layers of the second heat exchange substructure;
• placing, by way of the robot, the first one of the multiple layers of the second heat exchange substructure atop the second panel;
• depositing, by way of the robotic system, additional amounts of the structural adhesive along the first one of the multiple layers corresponding to planned locations of a second one of the multiple layers of the second heat exchange substructure;
• placing, by way of the robot, the second one of the multiple layers of the second heat exchange substructure atop the first one of the multiple layers of the second heat exchange substructure;
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• securing the second heat exchange substructure within the display assembly such that a first heat exchange substructure formed, at least in part, by said first panel, said second panel, and said corrugated layer as well as one of the first and second ones of the multiple layers of the second heat exchange substructure form part of an open loop airflow pathway for ambient air when placed in a housing of said display assembly located rearward of an electronic display surface secured within said housing.