Affixation device for electronic display

• US 4,728,753 A
• Filed: 03/04/1986
• Issued: 03/01/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Company Limited (Nitto Kogyo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Company Limited (Nitto Kogyo Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakano, Yoshihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Askin, Laramie E.
• Application Number:
  US06/836,152
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• Field of Search: 174/138 G, 361/400, 361/403, 361/417, 361/418, 361/419, 339/17 CF, 248/221.3, 248/221.4, 248/500
• US Class Current: 174/138.00G
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/00 Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/301 by means of a mounting structure H05K3/325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/12 Resilient or clamping means for holding component to structure

Abstract

An affixation device for an electronic display which comprises a flat platelike rest (1a, 1b, 1c) on which a platelike electronic display (2a, 2b, 2c) is set, support members (43a, 44a, 43b, 44b, 43c, 44c) which hold the flat platelike rest (1a, 1b, 1c) on a wiring board (37a, 37c), and a terminal holding member (7a, 7b, 7c) with a plurality of insertion grooves formed at the edge portion (3Ba, 3Bb, 3Bc) of the platelike rest (1a, 1b, 1c) to hold terminals (50a, 50b, 50c) of the electronic display.

Claims

1. An affixation device for an electronic display which comprises:

a flat platelike rest on which a platelike electronic display may be set;

means for securely positioning and holding an electronic display on a first surface of said platelike rest;

support means for securely positioning and holding said flat platelike rest on a wiring board; and

terminal holding means having a plurality of insertion grooves and formed at an edge portion of the platelike rest for holding terminals of the electronic display, wherein said terminal holding means comprise a plurality of terminal holding members extending from said edge portion and defining said plurality of insertion grooves therebetween, each of said insertion grooves extending from an open top end thereof adjacent said first surface of said platelike rest to an open bottom end thereof adjacent a bottom surface of said platelike rest, and wherein said grooves being open at a side thereof opposite said edge portion of said platelike rest and tapering to be smaller in width at said bottom end thereof than at said top end thereof.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said insertion grooves extend almost perpendicularly to said first surface.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said means for positioning and holding an electronic display on said platelike rest comprise projections extending from other edge portions of said platelike rest for contacting edges of an electronic display.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said means for positioning and holding an electronic display further comprises holding members extending from said platelike rest having means to grip an electronic display.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said means for positioning and holding an electronic display further comprises small pieces extending from said first surface for elastically engaging an electronic display.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said support means for positioning and holding said platelike rest include positioning members extending from said platelike rest and fittable into grooves of a wiring board to fix the precise position of said platelike rest.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the positioning members comprise support legs.