Image display apparatus

• US 8,872,998 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2011
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kamiyama, Hiroshi, Okada, Tomohiko, Ito, Tetsushi, Nishida, Takashi, Tanaka, Kenji, Iemura, Hirotoshi, Kusuda, Masakatsu
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUNG T
• Application Number:
  US13/042,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20110221994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,330 Days
• Field of Search: 349 58- 69
• US Class Current: 349/62
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133608 including particular frames or supporting means

Abstract

In an image display apparatus, a protruding portion is fixed to a chassis on a back side Z2 of a planar member and protrudes towards the planar member. The protruding portion has one or more first protruding members and one or more second protruding members and defines a small allowance region and a large allowance region for the planar member. In the small allowance region, an amount of displacement of the planar member towards the chassis side is regulated at most to a first predetermined value by the one or more first protruding members. In the large allowance region, an amount of displacement of the planar member towards the chassis side is regulated at most to a second predetermined value larger than the first predetermined value by the one or more second protruding member.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus comprising:

a liquid crystal panel having liquid crystal elements, for displaying an image on one surface thereof using the liquid crystal elements, the liquid crystal panel being formed in rectangular form;

a chassis disposed on a side of another surface of the liquid crystal panel;

a planar member disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the chassis so as to be approximately in parallel to the liquid crystal panel, the planar member being a diffuser plate or a reinforcing plate; and

a protruding portion fixed to the chassis and protruding towards the planar member, the protruding portion including;

a plurality of first protruding members disposed so as to be separated by a first distance from the liquid crystal panel, the plurality of first protruding members defining a small allowance region for the planar member in which an amount of displacement of the planar member towards the chassis side is regulated at most to a first predetermined value; and

a plurality of second protruding members disposed so as to be separated by a second distance which is larger than the first distance, from the liquid crystal panel, the plurality of second protruding members defining a large allowance region for the planar member in which an amount of displacement towards the chassis side is regulated at most to a second predetermined value which is larger than a first predetermined value,

wherein the plurality of first protruding members have a first height from an inner surface of the chassis and the plurality of second protruding members have a second height from the inner surface, the first height being higher than the second height, and

wherein the plurality of first protruding members and the plurality of second protruding members are alternately arranged throughout in a long-side direction of the liquid crystal panel or a short-side direction of the liquid crystal panel.

2. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least the plurality of second protruding members of the protruding portion are provided so as to be separated from the planar member at room temperature, and the plurality of first and second protruding members regulate the amount of displacement towards the chassis side when the temperature of the planar member reaches a temperature higher than room temperature.

3. The image display apparatus of claim 2, wherein the large allowance region is defined at different positions which are separated on opposite sides to each other with respect to a center of the planar member.

4. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein a plurality of large and small allowance regions are defined in the long-side direction of the liquid crystal panel and the short-side direction of the liquid crystal panel.

5. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the large allowance region is defined in an annular form with respect to the center of the planar member.

6. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein a notch is formed in a part of the small allowance region in an outer peripheral portion of the planar member or in a part of the outer peripheral portion in a vicinity of the small allowance region.

7. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein a convex portion protruding outwardly in a planar direction of the planar member is formed in a part of the small allowance region in an outer peripheral portion of the planar member or a part of the outer peripheral portion in a vicinity of the small allowance region, and the image display apparatus further comprises a spacer disposed between the convex portion and the liquid crystal panel.

8. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein a minimum value of a thickness dimension of the planar member in the small allowance region is set to be smaller than a thickness dimension of the planar member in the large allowance region.

9. The image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the large allowance regions are defined in a plurality of lines in the short-side direction of the liquid crystal panel.