Display device

• US 20060070280A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Yoshinori, Yamamura, Shinji
• Granted Patent: US 7,259,964 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/564
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133328 Segmented frames
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133385 with cooling means, e.g. fans
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133608 including particular frames or supporting means
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133615 Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133628 with cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06

Abstract

A display device includes a main display unit including a casing, a display panel, a light source for emitting light as backlight, and a reflector for reflecting the light toward the display panel; a heat sink for cooling the light source, the heat sink having a plurality of fins; and a frame provided to cover at least an upper face and right and left side faces of the casing from the outside, and having a top plate disposed above the upper face and a pair of side plates disposed beside the right and left side faces. A radiation hole is provided in the upper face of the casing so that at least heat conducted from the light source to the heat sink radiates therethrough, and a radiation space is provided between the top plate of the frame and the upper face of the casing.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a main display unit including a casing, a display panel disposed on a front side of the casing to display an image, a light source for emitting light serving as backlight, and a reflector for reflecting the light emitted from the light source toward the display panel;

a heat sink for cooling the light source, the heat sink having a plurality of fins; and

a frame provided to cover at least an upper face and right and left side faces of the casing from the outside, and having a top plate disposed above the upper face and a pair of side plates disposed beside the right and left side faces,

wherein a radiation hole is provided in the upper face of the casing so that at least heat conducted from the light source to the heat sink radiates therethrough, and

wherein a radiation space is provided between the top plate of the frame and the upper face of the casing.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the heat sink is disposed on each of right and left sides of the casing.

3. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a fan for taking outside air in as cooling air; and

a duct for feeding the cooling air to the heat sink, the duct including one end serving as an air inlet connected to the fan and the other end serving as an air outlet for feeding the cooling air toward the heat sink.

4. The display device according to claim 3, wherein the heat sink is placed so that the fins are arranged in a direction in which the cooling air is blown from the air outlet of the duct, one longitudinal end of the heat sink opposes the air outlet, and the positions of ends of the fins at the longitudinal end of the heat sink are determined in accordance with the distance from the air outlet so that the fin closest to the air outlet is the shortest and the fin farthest from the air outlet is the longest.

5. A display device comprising:

a main display unit including a casing, a display panel provided on a front side of the casing to display an image, a light source for emitting light serving as backlight, and a reflector for reflecting the light emitted from the light source toward the display panel; and

a frame provided to cover at least a lower face and right and left side faces of the casing from the outside, and having a bottom plate disposed under the lower face and a pair of side plates disposed beside the right and left side faces,

wherein an air intake hole is provided in the lower face of the casing to take outside air in as cooling air, and

wherein an air intake space is provided between the bottom plate of the frame and the lower face of the casing.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein a speaker is provided at a lower end of the casing, and has a sound output hole opened downward to output at least low-range sound.