Viewing screen with a swiveling screen housing

• US 4,657,316 A
• Filed: 08/14/1986
• Issued: 04/14/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Nixdorf Computer AG (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Bonke, Norbert, Hardt, Walter, Werner, Franz
• Primary Examiner(s): Zugel, Francis K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Gerald A.
• Application Number:
  US06/898,722
• Time in Patent Office: 243 Days
• Field of Search: 312/7.2, 312/251, 312/252, 312/20, 312/305, 312/328, 312/327, 358/254, 248/1 H, 248/1 I, 248/185, D/1477, 353/74, 353/119
• US Class Current: 312/7.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/189 Power distribution
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/923 Tilting

Abstract

The invention relates to a viewing screen unit (2) with a viewing screen housing (6) supported swivelably around a swivel axis (4). The viewing screen housing (6) has the shape of a circular cylinder segment, where the viewing screen plane essentially coincides with the intersecting plane (10) of the circular cylinder segment and the pivot axis (4) coincides with the cylinder axis. In a preferred embodiment, the viewing screen housing (6) is fastened swivelably onto a receiving housing (8) containing at least part of the components. The receiving housing (8) is provided with a concave recess (19) turned toward the viewing screen housing (6), which recess fits closely against the curved rear wall of the viewing screen housing. The supporting of the swivelable viewing screen housing is preferably done by supporting means which act on either the inside of the end faces or on the curved back side of the viewing screen housing (6).

Claims

1. An electronic CRT display assembly having a forward direction corresponding to the projection direction of a CRT and a rearward direction which is opposite to the forward direction, said assembly comprising:

a bottom support plate;

a pair of standards mounted on said support plate in spaced apart and parallel relationships to extend substantially upwardly at right angles from said plate;

a viewing screen unit having a relatively flat CRT display screen facing in said forward direction;

said screen unit having a rearward facing semi-cylindrical periphery which is contoured in a constant radius curve the axis of which lies in a fixed, parallel and laterally extending spaced relationship with the plane of said plate;

said screen unit being displaceably connected to said standards for rotation about a fixed axis which coincides with the axis of said constant radius curve;

and a receiving housing having forward facing opposite peripheral edges which are contoured in a constant radius curve corresponding to the constant radius curve of the rearward facing periphery of the viewing screen unit, said receiving housing being secured to said bottom plate with the opposite peripheral edges immediately adjacent the rearward facing periphery of said screen unit, to substantially enclose the rearward facing periphery of said screen unit while permitting unimpeded rotation of said screen unit about said axis of rotation.

2. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein said axis of rotation is substantially horizontal when said bottom plate is substantially horizontal.

3. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 further including feet mounted on the under side of said support plate for supporting said assembly in the assembled condition.

4. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein the center of gravity of said viewing screen unit falls at least substantially on said axis of rotation.

5. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 further including slide means interconnecting said viewing screen unit with said standards to accommodate said displacement.

6. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 further including a set of rollers on at least one of said standards defining a track, a portion of the rearward facing periphery of said viewing screen unit being mounted in said track for rotation of said viewing screen unit relative to said bottom plate.

7. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 further including a pivot pin interconnecting at least one of said standards and an end wall of said viewing screen unit to provide for said rotation.