Flat Panel Display

• US 20100172686A1
• Filed: 03/22/2010
• Published: 07/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Memjet Technology Ltd. (Memjet Limited)
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia
• Granted Patent: US 7,929,179 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 400/693
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/01 Ink jet
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/14427 Structure of ink jet print heads with thermal bend detached actuators
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/175 Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2002/14435 Moving nozzle made of thermal bend detached actuator
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/28 for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes , envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/46 Printing mechanisms combined with apparatus providing a visual indication
• 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: H05K 7/00 Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus casings, cabinets, drawers H05K5/00

Abstract

A monitor having a flat panel display, a printer and a sheet feeder disposed within a housing is disclosed. The flat panel display displays a video signal provided from an external computer through a video input socket of the monitor. The printer is disposed behind the flat panel display as viewed by the user. The printer includes a pagewidth printhead which prints onto print media print data provided from the external computer through a serial data connection of the monitor. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet of print media from a stack of print media past the pagewidth printhead. The stack of print media is located behind the flat panel display such that, immediately prior to commencement of printing, at least an edge of the print media is visible above an upper edge of the flat panel display.

Claims

1. A monitor comprising:

a housing;

a flat panel display disposed within the housing for displaying a video signal provided from an external computer through a video input socket of the monitor;

a printer disposed within the housing and behind said flat panel display as viewed by the user, the printer including a pagewidth printhead for printing onto print media print data provided from the external computer through a serial data connection of the monitor; and

a sheet feeder disposed within the housing for feeding a sheet of print media from a stack of print media past the pagewidth printhead, the stack of print media being located behind said flat panel display such that, immediately prior to commencement of printing, at least an edge of the print media is visible above an upper edge of the flat panel display.

2. A monitor according to claim 1, wherein print media to be printed on passes between the flat panel display and the pagewidth printhead.

3. A monitor according to claim 1, wherein the print media to be printed on passes behind the flat panel display and the pagewidth printhead relative to a viewing position of the flat panel display.

4. A monitor according to claim 1, wherein the printer is a process color printer.

5. A monitor according to claim 1, wherein the printer is an inkjet printer.

6. A monitor according to claim 5, wherein the printer has more than 5,000 inkjet nozzles.

7. A monitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sheet feeder is at least partially fed by gravity.

8. A monitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the printer further includes a printer controller for receiving print data in a compressed form, decompress the print data, and output dot data based on the decompressed print data to the pagewidth printhead.

9. A monitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least a majority of a print media path of the printer is in a plane that is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the flat panel display