LCD assembly used with a personal digital assistant

• US 6,888,591 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2003
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Transpacific Avartar, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Chong-du
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Tarifur R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KIM, RICHARD H
• Application Number:
  US10/413,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20040004680A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 349 58- 60, 349/153
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133311 Environmental protection, e.g. against dust or humidity
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/503 Arrangements improving the resistance to shock
• 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 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1612 Flat panel monitor

Abstract

An LCD assembly used with a wireless information terminal including: an LCD module including an LCD and a TSP attached on a surface of the LCD; a housing having upper and lower housing members which butt against each other to be coupled in order to support the LCD module, an exposure window of a certain size being formed in the upper housing member; and a space maintaining member inserted to maintain a certain gap between a rim of the TSP of the LCD module and the upper housing member, and formed of a rubber material having excellent elasticity and impact-absorbing capacity. The space maintaining member has a fixture portion and a pad portion in close contact with the TSP, and the pad portion has an air groove allowing air to exist between the TSP and itself.

Claims

1. An LCD assembly used with a wireless information terminal, comprising:

an LCD module having an LCD and a touch screen panel (TSP) attached on a surface of the LCD;

a housing having upper and lower housing members which butt against each other to be coupled together in order to support the LCD module and an exposure window of a certain size being formed in the upper housing member; and

a waterproof space maintaining member inserted to maintain a certain gap between a rim of the TSP of the LCD module and the upper housing member,

wherein the space maintaining member has a fixture portion and a pad portion in close contact with the TSP, and the pad portion has an air groove allowing air to exist between the TSP and itself.

2. The LCD assembly according to claim 1, wherein the space maintaining member is formed of a rubber material having excellent elasticity and impact-absorbing capacity.

3. The LCD assembly according to claim 2, wherein the air groove is formed by a curvature molding allowing the pad portion to be slantedly declined toward both sides thereof from a center thereof.

4. The LCD assembly according to claim 1, wherein a fixture groove of a shape matching with the fixture portion in which the fixture portion is inserted is formed in the upper housing member to fix the space maintaining member.

5. The LCD assembly according to claim 1, wherein

the space maintaining member is incorporated with the upper housing member into one body by a double injection molding.