Display apparatus

• US 6,530,547 B1
• Filed: 03/25/2002
• Issued: 03/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Wada, Atsuko
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Anita
• Application Number:
  US10/106,918
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 248/286.1, 248/291.1, 248/685, 248/686, 248/202.1, 248/284.1, 248/324, 345/87, 348/837
• US Class Current: 248/286.1
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0015 Arrangements for entertainment or communications, e.g. radio, television
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/00153 Monitors mounted on or in the seat other than the seat back

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a devised supporting device for rotatably engaging a display device and a housing device and a disengaging device so that the display device may be easily and speedily attached to or detached from the housing device. A display apparatus includes supporting portions (30, 31) and supported portions (32, 33) serving as a supporting device for rotatably engaging a display device (10) and a housing device (20) and a disengaging device (40) for disengaging the engagement between the display device (10) and the housing device (20) and in which the disengaging device (40) disengages the engagement between the supporting portions (30, 31) and the supported portions (32, 33) to thereby disengage the engagement between the display device (10) and the housing device (20).

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

display means;

housing means for housing the display means;

supporting means for detachably engaging the housing means and the display means and for rotatably engaging the display means and the housing means; and

disengaging means for disengaging the display means and the housing means, wherein the supporting means includes a supporting portion and a supported portion, and wherein the display means and the housing means are engaged with each other when the supporting portion and the supported portion are engaged with each other, and wherein the disengaging means rectilinearly moves the supporting portion in the direction in which the supporting portion comes away from the supported portion to thereby disengage the display means and the housing means, and wherein the disengaging means includes a pair of links, and wherein when one ends of the pair of links are operated, the other ends of the pair of links rectilinearly move the supporting portion away from the supported portion in unison with each other.

2. In a method of handling a display apparatus comprising display means, housing means having a predetermined shape for housing the display means, supporting means for detachably engaging the housing means and the display means and for rotatably engaging the display means and the housing means, disengaging means for disengaging the display means and the housing means, the supporting means including a supporting portion and a supported portion, the method comprising the steps of:

disengaging the display means and the housing means from each other when the disengaging means rectilinearly moves the supporting portion away from the supported portion, wherein the disengaging step comprises the steps of,

operating one ends of a pair of links provided on the disengaging means, and

rectilinearly moving, via the other ends of the pair of links, the supporting portion away from the supported portion in unison with each other when the one ends of the pair of links are operated;

the method further comprising the steps of,

rectilinearly moving the supporting portion to the original position when the disengaging means is released from being operated;

moving the supporting portion away from the supported portion after the supporting portion was rectilinearly moved to the original position; and

further moving the supporting portion in the engagement direction so that the display means and the housing means are engaged with each other.