Display apparatus

• US 20040141101A1
• Filed: 09/29/2003
• Published: 07/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogasawara, Shinya, Osu, Toru, Teratani, Kazumi, Kobayashi, Hisao
• Application Number:
  US10/671,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20040141101A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13332 Front frames
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/50 Protective arrangements

Abstract

A display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a casing having an opening; a display panel, which is housed inside of the casing and has an image display region facing to the opening; and a protecting panel for closing the opening. The protecting panel is retained in such a manner that a marginal portion of the protecting panel is held between the display panel and the casing via a resin foam.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a casing having an opening;

a display panel, which is housed inside of the casing and has an image display region facing to the opening; and

a protecting panel for closing the opening;

the protecting panel being held in such a manner that a marginal portion of the protecting panel is pressed against at least one of the display panel and the casing.

2. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein holding members for holding the protecting panel therein are fixed to the casing, and the protecting panel is held in such a manner that the marginal portion of the protecting panel is retained between the casing and the holding members.

3. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the marginal portion of the protecting panel is retained between the display panel and the casing.

4. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the marginal portion of the protecting panel is held via a restorative member having flexibility.

5. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 3,

wherein the marginal portion of the protecting panel is held via a restorative member having flexibility.

6. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 5,

wherein the restorative member is interposed between the marginal portion of the protecting panel and the display panel, and the image display region of the display panel is shielded by the restorative member and the protecting panel.

7. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 6,

wherein the display panel is provided with a display panel body having the image display region and a panel frame for holding the outer periphery of the display panel body, and further, the restorative member is interposed between the marginal portion of the protecting panel and the panel frame.

8. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 7,

wherein the restorative member is a foam, the foam being bonded, at a surface in contact with the marginal portion of the protecting panel or the panel frame, to the marginal portion or the panel frame.