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Digital dasher boards for sports arenas

  • US 20020162256A1
  • Filed: 05/04/2001
  • Published: 11/07/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An LED illuminated dasher board assembly comprising:

  • a thin display panel member having a white front surface and a rear surface, said panel member having a plurality of apertures therein to accommodate LEDs;

    an outer frame support for said panel member, said frame being rectangular in shape and protruding away from the front surface of said panel member;

    a rigid transparent sheet contiguous with a front surface of said outer frame; and

    a circuit board assembly having printed circuitry on at least one surface thereof and LED receptacles for said LEDs, said LED receptacles numbered and grouped to be at the same spacing as the apertures in said panel member so that LEDs provided in said receptacles are in register and protrude through said panel member apertures whenever said circuit board is in a proximate position to said rear surface of said panel member.

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