Electronic apparatus

• US 20060232564A1
• Filed: 02/01/2006
• Published: 10/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd. (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishimura, Hideki, Yamashita, Syunichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,203,534 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/18 Packaging or power distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user

Abstract

In an electronic apparatus having a touch panel and a chassis for supporting the touch panel, pair of fixing cushions are fixed to the touch panel along edges, which are parallel to each other, of the touch panel. Pair of vibration absorbing cushions are fixed to the chassis parallel to each other. A fixing flame is disposed between the touch panel and the chassis and fixed to the fixing cushions and the vibration absorbing cushions. Thus, the touch panel is supported against the chassis by the fixing cushions, the fixing frame and the vibration absorbing cushions. When the touch panel vibrates, the vibration absorbing cushions prevent transmission of the vibration from the touch panel to the chassis through fixing cushions and the fixing frame. Accordingly, the vibration of the touch panel hardly exercises a harmful influence on components mounted on the chassis.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus including a flat vibrating body and a chassis used for supporting said flat vibrating body, comprising;

fixing cushions fixed to said flat vibrating body;

vibration absorbing cushions fixed to said chassis; and

a fixing frame is disposed between said flat vibrating body and chassis and fixed to both said fixing cushions and said vibration absorbing cushions.

2. An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fixing cushions and said vibration absorbing cushions have slender shapes and are disposed parallel to one another.

3. An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said flat vibrating body has a rectangular shape with pair of edges parallel to each other;

and

wherein said fixing cushions are disposed along said edges.

4. An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising pair of vibrating elements fixed to said flat vibrating body along different pair of edges of said flat vibrating body.

5. An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said flat vibrating body comprises a touch panel.

6. An electronic apparatus an claimed in claim 5, further comprises a liquid crystal display panel fixed to said chassis.