DISPLAY

• US 20130329162A1
• Filed: 06/03/2013
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujii, Hiroaki, Nagatani, Shinpei, Yokota, Hiroaki, Ikenoya, Takefumi
• Granted Patent: US 9,826,654 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133314 Back frames
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133385 with cooling means, e.g. fans
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0012 frames therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0018 panel clamping or fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0031 Tensioned curved signs; Signs with curved tensioning structures
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/301 flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/14 Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack

Abstract

A display includes: a plate member having flexibility and including a first face and a second face that face each other; a frame member provided on the first face of the plate member and extending in one direction of the first face; and a display body having flexibility and disposed on a side of the plate member on which the second face is provided.

Claims

1. A display, comprising:

a plate member having flexibility and including a first face and a second face that face each other;

a frame member provided on the first face of the plate member and extending in one direction of the first face; and

a display body having flexibility and disposed on a side of the plate member on which the second face is provided.

2. The display according to claim 1, further comprising a reinforcement structure extending in a direction different from the extending direction of the frame member.

3. The display according to claim 2, wherein the reinforcement structure is provided at both end portions in the extending direction of the frame member.

4. The display according to claim 2, wherein the plate member includes a first protrusion extending in a direction different from the extending direction of the frame member, the first protrusion serving as the reinforcement structure.

5. The display according to claim 2, wherein the display body includes a liquid crystal panel, a light source that illuminates the liquid crystal panel, and a heat releasing plate that dissipates heat derived from the light source and serves as the reinforcement structure.

6. The display according to claim 1, wherein

the plate member has a shape, in the extending direction of the frame member, same as a shape of one of a side and a face of the frame member, the side and the face of the frame member facing the plate member, and

the display body has a shape same as the shape of the plate member.

7. The display according to claim 6, wherein one of the side and the face of the frame member facing the plate member is curved in part or in whole in the extending direction of the frame member.

8. The display according to claim 7, wherein one of the side and the face of the frame member facing the plate member has locally-different curvatures in the extending direction of the frame member.

9. The display according to claim 6, wherein one of the side and the face of the frame member facing the plate member has a shape of a part of a polygon in the extending direction of the frame member.

10. The display according to claim 1, wherein the plate member includes a plurality of second protrusions disposed in parallel to each other, the second protrusions being arrayed in the extending direction of the frame member and each extending in a direction different from the extending direction of the frame member.