Display screen assembly having a selectively engageable mount assembly

• US 9,164,537 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsen, Chiu-Jung, Herring, Dean F., Thomas, Jeff D., You, Zong-Han, Chen, Cheng-Hong, Nien, Wen-Yao
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoa C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cunningham, Xanthia C
• Application Number:
  US13/835,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20140268513A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/00 Stands or trestles as supports for apparatus or articles placed thereon ; Stands for scientific apparatus such as gravitational force meters without heads F16M13/00; easels or stands for blackboards or the like A47B97/04; show-stands A47F7/00; for workmen E04G1/32; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22; supporting or suspending for lighting devices F21V21/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/041 Allowing quick release of the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/02 Locking means
• 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 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/00 Cash registers alarm indicators G07G3/00

Abstract

A display screen assembly is provided. The display screen defines a channel for allowing selective engagement of the display screen. A mount assembly is provided and includes a base for supporting the display screen assembly about a support surface, and a locking assembly that selectively engages the channel to thereby lock the mount assembly to the display screen.

Claims

1. A display screen assembly comprising:

a display screen defining a channel for allowing selective engagement of the display screen; and

a mount assembly comprising;

a base for supporting the display screen assembly about a support surface; and

a locking assembly that selectively engages the channel to thereby lock the mount assembly to the display screen, wherein the locking assembly comprises a bayonet that is actuated into the channel of the display screen to thereby selectively engage the display screen with the mount assembly, whereby the bayonet is ingressed within the channel into a locked position and egressed out of the channel into an unlocked position, and

wherein the locking assembly includes a lever pivoted about a casing of the locking assembly that is operably coupled with the bayonet such that pivoting of the lever imparts ingress and egress translation of the bayonet; and

wherein the lever defines a slot spaced-apart from a pivot, and a pin joins the bayonet to the slot such that the pin translates within the slot and imparts translation of the bayonet during the picoting movement of the lever.

2. The display screen assembly according to claim 1, wherein a distal end of the lever engages the display screen assembly during pivoting movement to translate the display screen assembly away from the mount assembly.

3. The display screen assembly according to claim 1, wherein the slot defines a first portion in which translation relative to the pin imparts translation to the bayonet, and further defines a second portion in which translation relative to the pin biases the bayonet in the unlocked position.

4. A display screen assembly comprising:

a display screen defining a channel for allowing selective engagement of the display screen; and

a mount assembly comprising;

a base for supporting the display screen assembly about a support surface; and

a locking assembly that selectively engages the channel to thereby lock the mount assembly to the display screen, wherein the locking assembly comprises a bayonet that is actuated into the channel of the display screen to thereby selectively engage the display screen with the mount assembly, whereby the bayonet is ingressed within the channel into a locked position and egressed out of the channel into an unlocked position;

a cover that covers the lock assembly and is rotatable between open and closed positions, and further wherein the cover further includes a cam assembly translatable thereabout that is configured for engaging the lever when the cam assembly is in a retracted position and the cover is being rotated from the opened to the closed position.

5. The display screen assembly according to claim 4, wherein the cam assembly has a grip for translating the cam assembly into engagement with the lever and the grip is configured to retain the cam assembly in the retracted position by interaction of a detent assembly with the cam assembly.

6. The display screen assembly according to claim 4, wherein the mount assembly defines a shoulder that is configured to engage the detent assembly upon pivoting movement of the cover into the closed position to thereby release the cam assembly from the retracted position.

7. A mount assembly for a display screen, the mount assembly comprising:

a base for supporting the display screen assembly about a support surface; and

a locking assembly that selectively engages a channel of the display screen to thereby lock the mount assembly to the display screen, wherein the locking assembly comprises;

a bayonet that is actuated into the channel of the display screen to thereby selectively engage the display screen with the mount assembly, whereby the bayonet is ingressed within the channel into a locked position and egressed out of the channel into an unlocked position;

a lever pivoted about a casing of the locking assembly that is operably coupled with the bayonet such that pivoting of the lever imparts ingress and egress translation of the bayonet,

wherein the lever defines a slot spaced-apart from a pivot and a pin joins the bayonet to the slot such that the pin translates within the slot and imparts translation of the bayonet during pivoting movement of the lever.

8. The mount assembly according to claim 7, wherein a distal end of the lever engages the display screen assembly during pivoting movement to translate the display screen assembly away from the mount assembly.

9. The mount assembly according to claim 7, wherein the slot defines a first portion in which pivoting of the lever relative to the pin imparts translation to the bayonet, and further defines a second portion in which pivoting of the lever relative to the pin biases the bayonet in the unlocked position.

10. The mount assembly according to claim 7, wherein the bayonet is biased into the locked position, and

wherein the mount assembly further includes a cover that covers the lock assembly and is rotatable between open and closed positions, and further wherein the cover further includes a cam assembly translatable thereabout that is configured for engaging the lever when the cam assembly is in a retracted position and the cover is being rotated from the opened to the closed position.

11. The mount assembly according to claim 10, wherein the cam assembly has a grip for translating the cam assembly into engagement with the lever and the grip is configured to retain the cam assembly in the retracted position by interaction of a detent assembly with the cam assembly.

12. The mount assembly according to claim 11, wherein the mount assembly defines a shoulder that is configured to engage the detent assembly upon pivoting movement of the cover into the closed position to thereby release the cam assembly from the retracted position.