Display unit

• US 7,120,010 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2002
• Issued: 10/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tajima, Hisao
• Primary Examiner(s): Reichard, Dean A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): OLIVA, CARMELO B
• Application Number:
  US10/318,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20030117053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• Field of Search: 361/681, 361/682, 348/739, 348/790, 348/794, 348/325, 348/836, 248/917, 248/918
• US Class Current: 361/679.21
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133317 Intermediate frames, e.g. between backlight housing and front frame
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2202/28 Adhesive materials or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0012 frames therefor
• 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: Y10S 248/917 Video display screen support

Abstract

The present application discloses a display unit in which a display unit is supported by a support. Particularly, in the configuration in which are provided a display section including a face plate and a rear plate arranged opposite to the face plate and a support supporting the display section, the display section is bonded to and supported by the support.

Claims

1. A display unit comprising:

a display section to display images, said display section having a front side and a back side, with a face plate and a rear plate, said rear plate being arranged nearer the back side in relation to said face plate;

a support which supports said display section; and

a bonding member for bonding said display section and said support,

wherein said bonding member bonds said display section and said support on a periphery of the front side of said display section.

2. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein:

said support has a portion extending from the bonded portion of said display section toward a rear side beyond said rear plate.

3. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein:

said display section comprises a rectangular main surface, and said support connects a plurality of supporting members corresponding to individual sides on a periphery of said display section.

4. The display unit according to claim 3, wherein:

said individual supporting members are connected with screws.

5. The display unit according to claim 3, wherein:

said supporting members, when making relative displacement until said supporting members and said display section are separated from each other, are formed into a shape not having a portion that interferes members other than said supporting members of said display unit.

6. A display unit according to claim 3, wherein:

said face plate and said rear plate are mechanically attached.

7. The display unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a driving circuit which drives said display section at a position closer to a back side of said display unit than said display section; and

wiring drawn from an end portion of said display section and connected to said driving circuit.

8. The display unit according to claim 7, wherein:

said support has a portion extending from the bonded portion of said display section closer to the back side of the display unit than said rear plate; and

the bonded portion of said display section and said portion extending from the bonded portion closer toward the back side of the display unit than said rear plate are integrally formed.

9. The display unit according to claim 8, wherein:

said wiring passes through the integrated form of the bonded portion of said display section and the portion extending from the bonded portion toward the back side of the display unit beyond said rear plate, to connect said driving circuit and said display section.

10. The display unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a front plate positioned opposite to said face plate of said display section,

wherein a rear periphery of said front plate is bonded to said support.

11. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein said support comprises a frame-shaped front-side support which supports the front side of said display section.

12. The display unit according to claim 11, wherein said frame-shaped front-side support divides into four front-side support members corresponding to four sides of said display section.

13. The display unit according to claim 11, said support further comprising:

a back-side support which supports the back side of said display section at a position opposite to said front-side support.

14. The display unit according to claim 11, wherein said front-side support has a first engaging claw having substantially an L-shape, further comprising:

a front cover at a front of said display unit, said front cover having a second engaging claw having substantially an L-shape at a position corresponding to said first engaging claw of said front-side support;

wherein said first engaging claw engages with said second engaging claw.

15. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein said bonding member adheres to both the front side of said display section and said support.

16. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein said bonding member bonds said display section and said support so that the display section is supported by said support.