Display holder

• US 10,640,053 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Takako, Fujiwara, Yasuhisa, Hasegawa, Kuniaki, Maeda, Yoshinari, Kawamura, Yukinori
• Primary Examiner(s): McNurlen, Scott T
• Application Number:
  US16/262,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20190232885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: 248 271, 296 3712, 224483, 224929
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0252 for personal computers, e.g. laptops, notebooks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0003 inside the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0071 using latches, clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use

Abstract

A display holder includes a display mounting stand that includes a pair of upper and lower holding parts configured to hold a display in a stand-up posture therebetween. Each of the holding parts has a cut-out in a portion of the holding part. An accommodating part includes an aperture through which the display mounting stand passes, and which is filled with one of the holding parts when the display mounting stand is accommodated. A portion of the aperture includes a projection projecting inward of the aperture. The projection located at a position through which the cut-outs pass while the display mounting stand is in the laid-down posture. The projection fills the cut-out of one of the holding parts when the display mounting stand is accommodated.

Claims

1. A display holder comprising a display mounting stand configured to be accommodatable in an accommodating part located to an instrument panel of a vehicle,

the display mounting stand configured to be accommodated in a laid-down posture in the accommodating part, be pulled out from the accommodating part, and hold a display in a stand-up posture,

the display mounting stand including a pair of holding parts configured to hold the display in the stand-up posture between the pair of holding parts, the pair of holding parts being a pair of upper and lower holding parts,

each of the pair of holding parts having a cut-out in a portion of the holding part, the portion of the holding part facing an edge of the display,

the accommodating part including an aperture through which the display mounting stand in the laid-down posture passes, and the aperture being filled with one holding part of the pair of holding parts when the display mounting stand is accommodated in the accommodating part,

a portion of the accommodating part including a projection projecting inward of the aperture, the portion of the accommodating part defining the aperture, the projection located at a position through which the cut-outs pass while the display mounting stand is in the laid-down posture, and

the projection having a shape filling the cut-out of the one holding part when the display mounting stand is accommodated in the accommodating part.

2. The display holder according to claim 1, further comprising a support part rotatably connected to a back surface of the display mounting stand,

the back surface of the display mounting stand being a surface of the display mounting stand in the stand-up posture facing the aperture, wherein

the support part is configured to be in a posture along the back surface when the display mounting stand is in the laid-down posture, and in a posture inclined relative to the back surface when the display mounting stand is in the stand-up posture,

the support part includes an abutting portion brought to abut to the projection by push-in of the display mounting stand in the stand-up posture toward the aperture, and

the abutting portion is configured to restrict rotation of the support part by abutment to the projection, and abut to the projection in a surface contact.

3. The display holder according to claim 1, wherein in the display mounting stand in the stand-up posture, the cut-outs open in a direction where the display mounting stand is pulled out.

4. The display holder according to claim 3, wherein

each of the pair of holding parts further includes a pair of holding hooks configured to hold the display, the pair of holding hooks being a pair of right and left holding hooks, and

in the display mounting stand in the stand-up posture, the pair of holding hooks extends in an up-down direction, and is arranged on a right side and a left side of an opening of the cut-out with the opening of the cut-out interposed between the pair of holding hooks.

5. The display holder according to claim 1, wherein when the display mounting stand is accommodated in the accommodating part, outer shapes of the cut-outs and an outer shape of the projection coincide with each other when seen from a direction opposite to the aperture.