Portable animated illuminated panel display device

• US 20050091890A1
• Filed: 11/05/2003
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Highly Graphic, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Highly Graphic, Inc.
• Inventors: Snyder, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 7,065,909 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/442
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/02 by a carrier person or animal
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles

Abstract

A portable illuminated display device arranged to be mounted on various items, such as windows of vehicles or businesses or on garments. The device includes an illuminatable display panel, e.g., an electroluminescent, OLED, LCD or LED panel, and an associated driver/control unit. The display panel is made up of various illuminatable areas or segments arranged to be illuminated in a predetermined pattern and sequence by the driver/control unit to produce an animated display of graphic and/or text.

Claims

1. :

A portable animated illuminatable display device comprising a housing, a first illuminatable panel assembly, a electrical control circuit, an electrical power source and releasably securable mounting means, said first illuminatable panel assembly comprising a thin integral unit having a front surface and a peripheral edge, said front surface defining plural graphic areas, said first illuminatable panel assembly being arranged to be releasably mounted within a portion of said housing so that said front surface is visible and said peripheral edge is covered, said first illuminatable panel assembly having plural electrical conductors extending therefrom arranged to be releasably coupled to said power source and said electrical control circuit, each of said graphic areas being arranged to be illuminated internally upon the application of electrical energy to said first illuminatable panel assembly from said power source under the control of said electrical control circuit to produce an animated display, said releasably securable mounting means being arranged to releasably mount said device onto a support object so that said graphic areas are visible to viewers, said first illuminatable panel assembly being removable from said housing to be replaced by a second and different illuminatable panel assembly having plural graphic areas arranged to be illuminated upon the application of electrical energy thereto, whereupon the second illuminatable panel assembly can provide a different animated display.

2. :

The display device of claim 1 wherein said illuminatable panel is selected from the group consisting of an electroluminescent (EL) panel, an OLED panel, a LCD panel and a LED panel.

3. :

The display device of claim 1 wherein said plural graphic areas are illuminated in a predetermined sequence by said control circuit.

4. :

The display device of claim 3 wherein said control circuit is arranged to illuminate said plural graph areas in plural different sequences.

5. :

The display device of claim 2 wherein said plural graphic areas are illuminated in a predetermined sequence by said control circuit.

6. :

The display device of claim 5 wherein said control circuit is arranged to illuminate said plural graph areas in plural different sequences.

7. :

The display device of claim 1 wherein the support object is a window or other transparent panel and wherein said releasably securable mounting means is arranged to releasably mount said device on the window or other transparent panel to be visible therethrough.

8. :

The display device of claim 7 wherein said releasably securable mounting means comprises at least one suction cup.

9. :

The display device of claim 1 wherein said power source comprises at least one battery.

10. :

The display device of claim 1 wherein said power source is arranged to provide electrical power for said device from any of the group consisting of a 12 volt vehicle electrical circuit, 110 volt AC electrical circuit, and a battery.

11. :

The display device of claim 2 wherein said power source comprises at least one battery.

12. :

The display device of claim 2 wherein said power source is arranged to provide electrical power for said device from any of the group consisting of a 12 volt vehicle electrical circuit, 110 volt AC electrical circuit, and a battery.

13. :

The display device of claim 1 wherein said housing comprises a releasably securable frame for protecting said peripheral edge of said first illuminatable panel assembly or the second illuminatable panel assembly when either illuminatable panel assembly is mounted within said portion of said housing.

14. :

The display device of claim 2 wherein said housing comprises a releasably securable frame for protecting said peripheral edge of said first illuminatable panel assembly or the second illuminatable panel assembly when either illuminatable panel assembly is mounted within said portion of said housing.

15. :

A portable animated illuminatable display device comprising a housing, a first illuminatable panel assembly, a electrical control circuit, a self-contained power source and at least one suction cup, said power source, said electrical control circuit, said first illuminatable panel and said at least one suction cup being mounted on said housing, said first illuminatable panel including plural graphic areas arranged to be illuminated internally upon the application of electrical energy thereto from said power source under the control of said electrical control circuit to produce an animated display, said at least one suction cup being arranged to releasably mount said device onto a surface of a transparent panel so that said graphic areas are visible to viewers through said transparent panel.

16. :

The display device of claim 15 wherein said illuminatable panel is selected from the group consisting of an electroluminescent (EL) panel, an OLED panel, a LCD panel and a LED panel.

17. :

The display device of claim 15 wherein said plural graphic areas are illuminated in a predetermined sequence by said control circuit.

18. :

The display device of claim 15 wherein said control circuit is arranged to illuminate said plural graph areas in plural different sequences.

19. :

The display device of claim 15 wherein said first illuminatable panel is releasably securable to said housing.