LCD monitor stand

• US 6,651,943 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2000
• Issued: 11/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Dae-Jin, Cho, Chang-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Kimberly
• Assistant Examiner(s): MORRISON, NASCHICA SANDERS
• Application Number:
  US09/506,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20030001053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• Field of Search: 248/122.1, 248/125.1, 248/371, 248/462, 248/464, 248/472, 248/474, 248/681, 248/682, 248/917, 248/919, 361/683, 349/58
• US Class Current: 248/122.1
• 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 11/2021 around a horizontal axis F16M11/2035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
• 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: G06F 2200/1612 Flat panel monitor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/917 Video display screen support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/919 Adjustably orientable video screen support

Abstract

A stand fixing structure of a LCD monitor is disclosed. The stand structure of the LCD monitor according to the present invention includes a rear cover, a VESA cover engaged to a back surface of the rear cover, a rotation plate rotatably engaged at a bottom of a circular groove grooved on a back surface of the VESA cover and having a certain diameter, a rotatable stand having both ends hinged to the rotation plate, and a pair of opposite hooks protruded from both corner portions of a back surface of the VESA cover, whereby the stand is rotated and fixed at the hooks, and when the LCD monitor is hanged on a wall, the stand is supported by the hooks for thereby preventing the LCD monitor from being inclined in a certain direction.

Claims

1. A stand fixing structure for a LCD monitor, said LCD monitor having a display on a front side, said LCD monitor having a rear side opposite said front side, said stand fixing structure comprising:

a VESA cover engaged to a back surface of the rear side of said LCD monitor;

a rotation plate rotatably engaged at a bottom of a circular groove disposed on said back surface of the VESA cover and having a certain diameter;

a rotatable stand hingedly attached to the rotation plate, wherein the stand is rotatable between a first and a second position; and

a pair of opposite hooks protruding from corner portions of said back surface of the VESA cover, said stand being attached to said rotation plate at first and second points on said stand, said hooks being attached to said stand at third and fourth points on said stand when said stand is in said second position, said third and fourth points being further away from a nearest of two terminal ends of said stand than either of said first and second points, and when the LCD monitor is hung on a wall, the stand is supported by the hooks thereby preventing the LCD monitor from being inclined.

2. The structure of claim 1, wherein both ends of the rotation plate are bent forming a bent portion, and a hinge hole is formed at the bent portion, and both ends of the stand are bent at a certain angle and are rotatably fixed through the hinge hole.

3. The structure of claim 2, wherein a fixing nut is engaged at both ends of the stand, and the both ends of the stand contact with an inner surface of the bent portion of the rotation plate, so that both ends of the stand are movable in an inner direction of the rotation plate, and the movement of both ends of the stand in an outer direction of the rotation plate is restricted.

4. The structure of claim 1, wherein said pair of hooks each includes a vertical portion protruded in a vertical direction from an upper surface of one side of the VESA cover, and a horizontal portion protruded in a horizontal direction from an upper portion of the vertical portion, so that the stand is inserted into an inner space formed by the vertical portion and the horizontal portion of said hook.

17. The structure of claim 1, said ends of said stand having a pair of fixing nuts attached thereto, said rotation plate being perforated by a pair of holes allowing said stand to pass through said holes but preventing said fixing nuts attached to said stand from passing through allowing squeezing together of said ends of said stand but preventing prying apart said ends of said stand.

5. A method of mounting an LCD monitor to a wall, comprising the steps of:

inserting ends of a U-shaped elastic material into holes in a rotation plate;

attaching fixing nuts to internal portions of said rotation plate allowing both ends of said U-shaped elastic material to be squeezed together while restricting further separation of both ends of said U-shaped elastic material from each other;

rotating said U-shaped elastic material connected to said rotation plate on a back side of said LCD monitor until said U-shaped elastic material aligns with a pair of hooks;

squeezing together portions of said U-shaped elastic material mountably attached to said LCD monitor;

placing said portions of said U-shaped elastic material into said pair of hooks mounted on said back side of said LCD monitor;

releasing said portions of said U-shaped elastic material so that said U-shaped elastic material is locked within said pair of hooks;

partially inserting a nail into said wall; and

hanging said LCD monitor from said wall by hanging a middle portion of said U-shaped material from said nail.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising the step of placing a cover over end portions of said U-shaped material.

12. The method of claim 5, wherein said portions of said U-shaped elastic material that are placed in said pair of hooks are located substantially inward from said ends of said U-shaped elastic material.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein said portions of said U-shaped elastic material that are placed in said pair of hooks are located substantially inward from said ends of said U-shaped elastic material.

15. The method of claim 5, said elastic material attaches to said pair of hooks at a location on said elastic material that is between locations where said elastic material attaches to said rotation plate.

16. The method of claim 5, said elastic material being attached to said holes on said rotation plate by a pair of fixing nuts disposed on said elastic material, said holes of said rotation plate allowing said elastic material to be squeezed together while preventing said pair of fixing nuts attached to said elastic material from passing through.

7. A stand for an LCD monitor, comprising:

a video electronics standard association (VESA) cover for a back side of said LCD monitor;

a U-shaped rotation plate rotatably attached to said VESA cover, each end of said U-shaped rotation plate being perforated by a hole; and

a U-shaped elongated elastic metal tube attached to said rotation plate, said tube being capable of supporting said LCD monitor on a surface; and

a pair of fixing nuts disposed on each end of said metal tube, each hole allowing passage of said metal tube, each hole preventing passage of respective ones of said fixing nuts attached to said tube and allowing squeezing together of said ends of said tube while preventing separation of both ends of said tube and preventing detachment of said tube from said rotation plate.

8. The stand of claim 7, further comprising a pair of hooks located at opposite ends of said VESA cover for locking into place said tube.

9. The stand of claim 8, said pair of fixing nuts for attaching said tube to said rotation plate, said fixing nuts being located on an inside of said U-shaped rotation plate allowing the ends of said U-shaped tube to be squeezed together.

10. The stand of claim 9, said tube having a straight portion in the middle of said U-shaped tube, said straight portion containing a circular friction pad for propping up said LCD monitor on said surface.

11. The stand of claim 10, said pair of hooks being located in such a position so as to lock into place said U-shaped tubing if ends of said U-shaped tube are squeezed together, placed within said hooks, and then released.

14. The stand of claim 8, said metal tube attaches to said pair of hooks at a location on said metal tube that is between locations of where said metal tube attaches to said rotation plate.

18. The stand of claim 8, said tube attaches to each of said pair of hooks at a location on said tube between locations where said tube attaches to said rotation plate.