Digital signage

• US 9,357,673 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2013
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Chin, Injae
• Primary Examiner(s): Sinclair, David M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, Robert
• Application Number:
  US14/079,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20181 Filters; Louvers
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20972 Forced ventilation, e.g. on heat dissipaters coupled to components

Abstract

There is disclosed a digital signage including a display panel, a housing having the display panel arranged in a front surface, the housing comprising an inlet formed in a lower portion of a lateral surface and an outlet formed in an upper portion of a back surface or a top surface, a fan configured to suck air into the housing via the inlet and to blow the air exhausting via the outlet after penetrating a back surface of the display, a pre-filter mounted adjacent to the inlet, the pre-filter comprising a plurality of mesh holes, and a membrane filter configured to penetrate the air having penetrated the pre-filter there through and to filter moisture and foreign substances, such that may have a slim design and exhaust the heat generated from a display panel and a driving circuit board effectively.

Claims

1. A digital signage comprising:

a housing having an inlet at a lateral surface, a slot formed adjacent to the inlet and an outlet at an upper portion of a surface of the housing;

a display at a front surface of the housing;

a fan to move air into the housing via the inlet, and the fan to move air out of the housing via the outlet;

a pre-filter for detachably inserted mounting into the slot; and

a membrane filter to receive air from the pre-filter and to filter at least one material from the air, the membrane filter being spaced from the pre-filter,

wherein the pre-filter is facing the lateral surface of the housing, and

wherein the membrane filter is substantially parallel with the front surface of the housing.

2. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the pre-filter includes a plurality of mesh holes.

3. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the pre-filter is arranged obliquely with respect to the lateral surface of the housing.

4. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the inlet includes a plurality of holes.

5. The digital signage according to claim 4, further comprising:

a louver at an upper part of at least one of the holes.

6. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the pre-filter is spaced apart from the inlet.

7. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein a first portion of the pre-filter is adjacent to the inlet and a second portion of the pre-filter is obliquely spaced apart from the inlet.

8. The digital signage according to claim 7, further comprising:

a duct adjacent to a portion of the pre-filter, and the duct to provide an air path between the pre-filter and the membrane filter.

9. The digital signage according to claim 1, further comprising:

a duct to guide air from the pre-filter to the membrane filter.

10. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the fan to move air in a first direction and to exhaust the moved air in a second direction.

11. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the housing includes:

a glass spaced from a surface of the display; and

an air curtain unit between the glass and the display, and

the air having penetrated the membrane filter is provided to a lower end of the air curtain unit and moves upward to the outlet.

12. The digital signage according to claim 1, further comprising:

a sub display panel at a back of the housing.

13. The digital signage according to claim 1, wherein the membrane filter and the fan are provided within the housing and under the display.

14. The digital signage according to claim 13, wherein an upper end of the pre-filter is higher than a lower end of the display.

15. A digital signage comprising:

a housing having an inlet portion, a slot formed adjacent to the inlet portion and an outlet portion;

a display at a front surface of the housing;

a fan to move air into the housing via the inlet portion, and the fan to move air out of the housing via the outlet portion;

a first filter adjacent to the inlet portion, and the first filter for detachably inserted mounting into the slot; and

a second filter separated from the first filter to filter moisture and substances from air having passed through the first filter, wherein the second filter is substantially parallel with the front surface of the housing,

wherein the first filter is arranged obliquely with respect to a lateral surface of the housing.

16. The digital signage according to claim 15, wherein the first filter includes a plurality of mesh holes.

17. The digital signage according to claim 15, wherein a first portion of the first filter is adjacent to the inlet portion and a second portion of the first filter is obliquely spaced apart from the inlet portion.