Display Screen Turning Apparatus and Television Set

• US 20090266946A1
• Filed: 03/03/2009
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Daisuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,205,849 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/157
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/18 with mechanism for moving the apparatus relatively to the stand
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/2014 around a vertical axis F16M11/2035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/08 Foot or support base
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/917 Video display screen support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/919 Adjustably orientable video screen support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/923 Tilting

Abstract

This display screen turning apparatus includes a first support member of metal supporting a display screen portion and a second support member of metal supporting the first support member to be anteroposteriorly rotatable by a prescribed angle with respect to a vertical plane, and either the first support member or the second support member has a receiving hole, while either the second support member or the first support member integrally has a platelike support shaft of metal inserted into the receiving hole.

Claims

1. A display screen turning apparatus comprising:

a first support member of metal supporting a display screen portion; and

a second support member of metal supporting said first support member to be anteroposteriorly rotatable by a prescribed angle with respect to a vertical plane, wherein

either said first support member or said second support member has a receiving hole, while either said second support member or said first support member integrally has a platelike support shaft of metal inserted into said receiving hole.

2. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

either said first support member or said second support member integrally has a stop portion for inhibiting said support shaft from coming off said receiving hole in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus when said support shaft is inserted into said receiving hole.

3. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said first support member has said receiving hole and said second support member integrally has said support shaft and said stop portion, and

said second support member is disengaged from said first support member when said first support member is rotated beyond the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus.

4. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

said second support member is made of sheet metal, and

said support shaft and said stop portion are integrally formed on said second support member by folding.

5. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

said stop portion consists of a first stop portion and a second stop portion, and

said first support member further has a notched portion for separating said first stop portion from said first support member when rotated up to a position where said second support member is disengaged from said first support member.

6. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

said first support member further has a stop section stopped by said second stop portion, and

said second stop portion stops said stop section in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus.

7. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 6, so formed as to disengage said stop section and said second stop portion from each other when rotating said first support member beyond the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus.

8. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

said first support member is made of sheet metal, and

said stop section is integrally formed on said first support member.

9. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

said first stop portion has a stop section extending toward said support shaft,

said notched portion is so formed as to extend toward said receiving hole, and

said stop section is so formed as to stop said first support member in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus when said support shaft is inserted into said receiving hole and to be separable from said notched portion when said first support member is rotated up to a position where said second support member is disengaged from said first support member.

10. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 6, so formed that said first stop portion stops said first support member and said second stop portion stops said stop section in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus when said support shaft is inserted into said receiving hole.

11. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

said second support member further has a body portion provided with said support shaft on a substantially central portion and provided with said first stop portion and said second stop portion on the side surface, and

said first support member is rotatably supported in a state held between said first and second stop portions and said body portion.

12. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

said platelike support shaft is so formed on said second support member as to vertically extend, while said receiving hole of said first support member is so formed as to substantially vertically receive a platelikely extending surface of said platelike support shaft, and

the upper surface of said support shaft is so formed as to come into contact with the bottom portion of said receiving hole in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus.

13. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

said receiving hole has a sectoral shape, and

said first support member is so formed that said second support member is disengaged from said first support member when a platelikely extending surface of said support shaft comes into contact with at least one side surface of said receiving hole.

14. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

a platelikely extending surface of said support shaft of said second support member is so formed as not to come into contact with the side surface of said receiving hole of said first support member in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus.

15. The display screen turning apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

said second support member is fixed in a state where said platelike support shaft vertically extends.

16. A television set comprising:

a display screen portion displaying a television image;

a first support member of metal supporting said display screen portion; and

a second support member of metal supporting said first support member to be anteroposteriorly rotatable by a prescribed angle with respect to a vertical plane, wherein

either said first support member or said second support member has a receiving hole, while either said second support member or said first support member integrally has a platelike support shaft of metal inserted into said receiving hole.

17. The television set according to claim 16, wherein

either said first support member or said second support member integrally has a stop portion for inhibiting said support shaft from coming off said receiving hole in the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus when said support shaft is inserted into said receiving hole.

18. The television set according to claim 17, wherein

said first support member has said receiving hole and said second support member integrally has said support shaft and said stop portion, and

said second support member is disengaged from said first support member when said first support member is rotated beyond the anteroposterior rotational range of said first support member with respect to said vertical plane in the used state of said apparatus.

19. The television set according to claim 18, wherein

said second support member is made of sheet metal, and

said support shaft and said stop portion are integrally formed on said second support member by folding.

20. The television set according to claim 18, wherein

said stop portion consists of a first stop portion and a second stop portion, and

said first support member further has a notched portion for separating said first stop portion from said first support member when rotated up to a position where said second support member is disengaged from said first support member.