DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20150181732A1
• Filed: 12/23/2014
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2013
• 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: FUJIKAWA, Akihiro, MORITA, Shinji, KAMEOKA, Shinichi, KOBAYASHI, Masayoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,860,479 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133314 Back frames
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133608 including particular frames or supporting means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• 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: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06

Abstract

A display apparatus includes: a display unit; a front cabinet including a frame portion in the form of a frame surrounding an outer edge of the display unit, a tab including a base portion connected to the frame portion and extending in a depth direction from the base portion, and a fixing portion provided in the tab; and a rear frame, and the fixing portion is fixed to the rear frame with a fastener in a direction crossing the depth direction. The fixing portion may be located deeper in the depth direction than the display unit or may be closer to the display unit than the base position is in the direction crossing the depth direction.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a front cabinet including a frame portion surrounding an outer edge of the display unit, a tab including a base portion connected to the frame portion and extending in a depth direction from the base portion, and a fixing portion provided in the tab; and

a rear frame,

wherein the fixing portion is fixed to the rear frame with a fastener in a direction crossing the depth direction.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the fixing portion is located deeper in the depth direction than the display unit.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the fixing portion is closer to the display unit than the base portion is in the direction crossing the depth direction.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the tab includes a connecting portion which connects the base portion and the fixing portion by a step or a curve located deeper in the depth direction than the display unit.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a cell guide positioned inside the front cabinet and holding the display unit,

wherein the cell guide contacts the fixing portion in the direction crossing the depth direction and is away from the base portion.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the tab includes a lightening portion along a section of an outer edge of the fixing portion.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the lightening portion is at least one of a notch or a slit.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the front cabinet includes an engaging portion that engages the rear frame.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the tab is formed integrally with the frame portion, and

the fixing portion has a through-hole passing through the tab in the direction crossing the depth direction, and the fastener is inserted through the through-hole to fix the fixing portion to the rear frame.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a rear cabinet including a contiguous portion which is contiguous with an outer periphery of the front cabinet, and

the tab is positioned inside the rear cabinet and located between the outer periphery and the display unit.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein at least a part of the rear frame is exposed as an exterior of the display apparatus, and

the rear cabinet covers the fixing portion of the front cabinet.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the rear cabinet is made up of a plurality of cabinet sections.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising

a circuit board attached to a back surface of the rear frame,

wherein the rear cabinet further covers the circuit board.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the rear cabinet is fixed to the rear frame,

the outer periphery of the front cabinet includes a facing portion, the contiguous portion of the rear cabinet includes a facing portions, and the facing portions face each other, and

at least one of the facing portions includes an interference portion which interferes with another one of the facing portions in the depth direction when the front cabinet is fixed to the rear frame and the rear cabinet is fixed to the rear frame.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 14,

wherein the interference portion is a protrusion that is provided in at least one of the facing portions and protrudes toward the other one of the facing portions.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein the facing portions extends in a form of a ring that surrounds the display unit, and

the protrusion is provided over an entire circumference of the facing portions.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 16,

wherein the protrusion is made up of a plurality of protrusions provided at intervals, and

the protrusions increase in height with distance from the tab of the front cabinet along an outer edge of the front cabinet.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising

a cell guide positioned inside the front cabinet and holding the display unit,

wherein when an inner periphery of the front cabinet reaches a position at a predetermined distance from the display unit due to interference in the facing portions, the cell guide comes into contact with the frame portion at a position closer to the display unit than to the base portion.