Display device

• US 10,025,127 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Seunggyu, Lee, Jein, Choi, Kwangho, Pyo, Jonggil, Kim, Hyunho
• Primary Examiner(s): THAKER, NIDHI VIVEK
• Application Number:
  US15/113,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20170010499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,279 Days
• Field of Search: 36167924, 349 58- 60
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133314 Back frames
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133317 Intermediate frames, e.g. between backlight housing and front frame
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13332 Front frames
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133325 Assembling processes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/465 Snap -fit
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/00 Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00

Abstract

The present invention is related to a display device. A display device according to the present invention comprises a display panel including a front substrate and a rear substrate; guide panel being attached to the rear surface of the display panel and including a protruding part extending in a vertical direction; a rear cabinet being disposed in the rear of the display panel and including at least one groove into which the protruding part is inserted; and a back cover being disposed between the display panel and the rear cabinet and including an opening through which at least one of the protruding part and the groove passes.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a frame;

a guide panel disposed on the frame;

a display panel disposed on the guide panel;

a top case positioned on a side and a front of the display panel, the top case comprises a horizontal top case which covers a boundary of a front surface at a first side area of the display panel; and

a back cover disposed at a rear of the frame,

wherein the horizontal top case includes a first part facing a part of the front surface of the display panel, a second part extending from the first part and covering the side of the display panel, a third part extending from the second part toward the guide panel, and an extended part extending from the third part and facing a side of the guide panel,

wherein the guide panel includes;

a first protruding part protruding from the side of the guide panel, and

a second protruding part protruding from the side of the guide panel and being apart from the first protruding part,

wherein the first protruding part is closer to the third part of the horizontal top case than the second protruding part of the horizontal top case,

wherein the horizontal top case includes a first opening and a second opening at the extended part, and the first protruding part is inserted into the first opening and the second protruding part is inserted into the second opening, and

wherein the back cover is coupled to the first protruding part of the guide panel, and an end of the back cover is inserted between the first protruding part of the guide panel and the third part of the horizontal top case.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the top case further comprises

a vertical top case which covers the boundary of the front surface in a second side area neighboring the first side area of the display panel,

wherein the horizontal top case and the vertical top case are connected to each other at the corner of the display panel, and

materials of which the horizontal top case and the vertical top case are made are different from each other.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the horizontal top case includes a metallic material while the vertical top case includes a plastic material.

4. The display device of claim 1, further comprising an optical layer between the display panel and the back cover.

5. The display device of claim 1, wherein the guide panel is contacted with the extended part of the horizontal top case.

6. The display device of claim 1,

wherein the horizontal top case further comprises a fourth part extended from the first part of the horizontal top case toward a portion of the front surface of the display panel.

7. The display device of claim 1, wherein the back cover comprises a hook on an end part of the back cover and corresponding to the second protruding part.

8. The display device of claim 1, wherein the guide panel comprises a first guide panel in a horizontal direction and a second guide panel in a vertical direction,

wherein the first and second protruding parts are positioned on the first guide panel.

9. The display device of claim 8, wherein the second guide panel comprises a third protruding part having a different shape with the first and second protruding parts.

10. The display device of claim 9, wherein the back cover comprises a groove corresponding to the third protruding part, the third protruding part inserted in the groove.