DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20110228191A1
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pegatron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pegatron Corporation
• Inventors: HSU, KUN-HUANG, FU, SIH-REN
• Application Number:
  US12/638,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20110228191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/46 Fixing elements

Abstract

This invention discloses a display device. The display device includes a first panel, a second panel, and an elastic ring. The second panel is disposed over the first panel. The elastic ring includes a first portion and a second portion. An inner side of the first portion has a concave. The second portion extends from the concave of the inner side of the first portion. The elastic ring surrounds and tightly wraps outer edges of the first panel and the second panel with the concave of the inner side, and the second portion is sandwiched between the first panel and the second panel to allow a gap to be formed between the first panel and the second panel.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a first panel;

a second panel disposed over the first panel; and

an elastic ring including;

a first portion, an inner side of the first portion having a concave; and

a second portion extending from the concave of the first portion;

wherein the elastic ring surrounds and tightly wraps the outer edges of the first panel and the second panel with the concave of the inner side, and the second portion is sandwiched between the first panel and the second panel to allow a gap to be formed between the first panel and the second panel.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first portion and the second portion of the elastic ring are integrally formed.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first panel is a liquid crystal display panel.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the second panel is a touch panel, a glass panel, or an acrylic panel.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the elastic ring is a rubber element.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the elastic ring is formed via injection molding.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first panel and the second panel have a top surface and a bottom surface, respectively, and the bottom surface of the second panel faces the top surface of the first panel.

8. The display device according to claim 7, wherein a rim of the elastic ring is shrunk to wrap the edges of the top surface of the second panel and extends to the first panel, and another rim of the elastic ring is shrunk to wrap the edges of the bottom surface of the first panel.

9. The display device according to claim 8, wherein the shrunken rim and the other shrunken rim of the elastic ring form the concave of the inner side of the elastic ring.

10. The display device according to claim 7, wherein the second portion of the elastic ring is sandwiched between the edges of the bottom surface of the second panel and the edges of the top surface of the first panel.