Fixing apparatus for flat panel display devices

• US 8,482,912 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2012
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yuanzhi Su
• Original Assignee: Yuanzhi Su
• Inventors: Su, Yuanzhi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wujciak, Alfred J
• Application Number:
  US13/476,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20120227241A1
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 220/23.9, 312/223.2, 361/679.41, 361/679.02, 361/679.03, 361/679.29, 361/679.3, 361/679.56, 361/796, 361/752, 361/759, 248/346.01, 248/346.05, 248/346.5, 248/346.04, 248/686, 248/682, 248/468, 248/478
• US Class Current: 361/679.3
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0059 using clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A fixing apparatus for a flat panel display device includes a frame having an open cavity. First and second positioning sidewalls extend from the frame and are located above and parallel with the open cavity. A movable stop block is mounted in the open cavity and below the first positioning sidewall. As such the flat panel device is easily fixed and improved fixing strength is attained.

Claims

1. A method for providing a fixing apparatus for a portable flat panel display device, comprising:

arranging first and second positioning sidewalls on opposite sides of a frame that defines a cavity in a first plane,

wherein said first positioning sidewall extends from said frame in a first direction towards said cavity and above and parallel to said first plane, and

wherein said second positioning sidewall extends from said frame in a second direction towards said cavity and said first positioning sidewall and above and parallel to said first plane, wherein said first direction and said second direction are opposite directions;

defining an opening between said first and second positioning sidewalls;

mounting a movable stop block in said cavity and between said first positioning sidewall and said frame;

wherein a first extension of said first positioning sidewall extends in said first direction toward said cavity longer than a second extension of said second positioning sidewall extends in said second direction towards said cavity and said first extension;

inserting one end of said flat panel display device through said opening and into said cavity under said first positioning sidewall and against said movable stop block;

inserting an opposite end of said flat panel display device through said opening and into said cavity;

moving said flat panel display device laterally towards said second sidewall; and

moving said moveable stop block towards said second positioning sidewall to fix said flat panel display device in said cavity, wherein the first extension and second extension abut the edges of the flat panel display device.