Adjustable display monitor unit

• US 6,510,049 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2000
• Issued: 01/21/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rosen Products LLC
• Original Assignee: Rosen Products LLC
• Inventors: Rosen, John B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schuberg, Darren
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEA EDMONDS, LISA S
• Application Number:
  US09/746,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20010048584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 361/681, 361/682, 361/683, 248/917-924, D14/300-461, 312/7.2, 312/223.1, 312/223.2
• US Class Current: 361/679.07
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/105 the horizontal axis being the roll axis, e.g. for creating a landscape-portrait rotation
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/2064 for tilting and panning F16M11/2078 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/027 Ceiling supports
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/044 for balancing rotational movement of the undercarriage
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/919 Adjustably orientable video screen support

Abstract

An adjustable multi-positional display monitor for accommodating varied viewing positions. The display unit includes a swivel portion, a pivot portion and a screen. The swivel portion is rotatable relative to a reference surface about a first axis, which extends through the reference surface. The pivot portion has a proximal and distal region, the proximal region pivotally coupled to the swivel portion to accommodate pivot of the pivot portion relative to the swivel portion about a second axis which is normal to the first axis. The distal region is associated with a screen which is rotatable about a third axis which extends though a planar viewing surface of the screen so that the screen can be positioned for viewing from an upright, inverted and recumbent position regardless of the orientation of the reference surface.

Claims

1. A multi-positional display monitor unit mountable on a reference surface, the display monitor unit comprising:

a base with a recessed perimeter portion;

an arcuate arm with opposing ends and a crest, where the ends of the arcuate arm are attached to the base such that the arcuate arm can be pivoted between a stowed position where the arcuate arm folds into the recessed perimeter portion generally flush with the base and a deployed arm position where the arcuate arm projects from the base; and

a display screen rotatably secured to the crest of the arcuate arm.

2. The display monitor unit of claim 1, where the base is circular.

3. The display monitor unit of claim 1, where the base includes a swivel portion adapted to rotate about a first axis that extends through the reference structure where the ends of the arcuate arm are attached to the swivel portion.

4. The display monitor unit of claim 1, where the arcuate arm, when in the deployed arm position, pivots outward from the base about a second axis which is parallel to the reference surface.

5. The display monitor unit of claim 1, where the display screen, when in the stowed position, lies generally flush against the reference surface.

6. The display monitor unit of claim 1, wherein the crest of the arcuate arm has a circular plate on which the display screen is rotatably secured.

7. The display monitor unit of claim 1, where the display screen is rotatable approximately 360 degrees about a third axis which extends through the display screen.

8. The display monitor unit of claim 1, where the display screen is rotatable approximately 270 degrees in one direction about a third axis that extends through the display screen and is rotatable approximately 90 degrees in the opposing direction about the third axis.