DISPLAY APPARATUS AND FRAME TO ACCOMMODATE DISPLAY PANEL

• US 20120032963A1
• Filed: 06/30/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHO, Jin-hyun, KIM, S-ru
• Application Number:
  US13/173,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20120032963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/501
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/46 Fixing elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/54 Arrangements for reducing warping-twist

Abstract

A display apparatus including: a frame to accommodate a display panel, is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image based on an image signal; a main frame which includes a first frame supporting a front side of the display panel and a second frame supporting a rear side of the display panel. A sub-frame is coupled to the main frame, and a light source module is disposed behind the display panel and provides light to the display panel. At least one of the first frame, the second frame and the sub-frame, where the light source module is supported, has smaller thermal expansivity than the others of the first frame, the second frame and the sub-frame, where the light source module is not supported.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display panel which displays an image based on an image signal;

a main frame which comprises a first frame which supports a front side of the display panel and a second frame which supports a rear side of the display panel;

a sub-frame which is coupled to the main frame; and

a light source module which is disposed behind the display panel and provides light to the display panel,

wherein at least one of the first frame, the second frame and the sub-frame, where the light source module is supported, has smaller thermal expansivity than the others of the first frame, the second frame and the sub-frame, where the light source module is not supported.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first frame, the second frame and the sub-frame are thermally deformed to correspond to each other by heat from the light source module while the light source module operates.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sub-frame is accommodated in, and interposed between, the first frame and the second frame.

4. The display apparatus of claim 3, wherein the sub-frame is supported by at least one of the first frame and the second frame.

5. The display apparatus of claim 4, wherein the sub-frame has a bar shape which has a polygonal cross-section, and comprises a first surface which contacts the first frame, a second surface reverse to the first surface and which contacts the second frame, and a third surface interposed between the first surface and the second surface and which contacts the light source module.

6. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the sub frame is coupled to at least one of the first frame and the second frame by at least one of a fastener, a double-sided tape and an adhesive.

7. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first frame has a rectangular shape which extends along four edges of the display panel, and the sub-frame has a bar shape which extends along the first frame.

8. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein if the light source modules are supported by one of the sub-frame and the second frame, the one of the sub-frame and the second frame supporting the light source module has smaller thermal expansivity than the other of the sub-frame and the second frame which does not support the light source module, and the thermal expansivity of the other one of the sub-frame and the second frame which does not support the light source module is smaller than the thermal expansivity of the first frame.

9. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein if the light source modules are respectively supported by the sub-frame and the second frame, the sub-frame and the second frame have smaller thermal expansivity than the first frame.

10. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the light source module comprises a light source;

and a light source board which has one surface on which the light source is mounted and another surface supported by at least one of the sub-frame and the second frame.

11. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a base supported on a predetermined installation surface; and

a stand coupled to the base and supporting the main frame against the base.

12. The display apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

an image signal receiver which receives an image signal;

an image signal processor which processes the image signal received by the image signal receiver to be displayed on the display panel; and

a light source driver which drives the light source module,

wherein at least one of the light source driver, the image signal receiver, and the image signal processor is coupled to at least one of the main frame and the base.