Adapter plate for connecting two monitors to an arm mount

• US 9,568,140 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2014
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: First Base Inc.
• Original Assignee: First Base Inc.
• Inventors: Cayer, Jean-Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Wujciak, Alfred J
• Application Number:
  US14/490,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20160084428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 248/152, 248/146, 248/917, 248/918, 248/200
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 81/062 horizontally
• 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 11/04 Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/045 adapted to left-right translation movement
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/22 with approximately constant height, e.g. with constant length of column or of legs F16M11/42 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• 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

Abstract

An adapter plate permits an arm mount with a single abutment plate to support two monitors. The adapter plate includes a first hole, a second hole, and a third hole. The holes may be part of a first set of holes, a second set of holes, and a third set of holes, respectively. Each of the sets of holes is preferably configured in a symmetric pattern compliant with VESA standard configurations for flat panel monitor mounts. One set of holes aligns with the abutment plate on the arm mount and the other two sets of holes align with the two monitors respectively to receive support members, such as bolts, therethrough to couple the two monitors to the single abutment plate on the arm mount.

Claims

1. In combination, an adapter plate holding first and second monitors to an arm mount, the combination comprising:

a first edge spaced apart from a second edge on the adapter plate;

the adapter plate defining a first hole, a second hole, and a third hole, wherein each hole is adapted to receive a bolt therethrough while the plate is abutting the first monitor, the second monitor, and an abutment plate on the arm mount;

a first set of nuts on the first monitor;

a second set of nuts on the second monitor;

the adapter plate defining a first set of slots, wherein the first hole is part of the first set of slots;

the plate defining a second set of slots, wherein the second hole is part of the second set of slots; and

wherein the first and second set of slots are arranged complementary to the first and second set of nuts allowing mounting bolts to extend through the slots threadedly into the nuts when the two monitors abut the adapter plate.

2. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a vertical symmetry line associated with the adapter plate; and

wherein the second set of holes and the third set of holes are symmetric with each other about relative to the symmetry line.

3. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a longitudinal symmetry line associated with the adapter plate; and

wherein the first, second, and third set of holes are symmetric about relative to the symmetry line.

4. The adapter plate combination of claim 3, further comprising:

a vertical symmetry line associated with the plate;

wherein the plate defining a first set of slots offset are offset entirely to a first side of the plate relative to the vertical symmetry line, wherein one of the three holes is included in the first set of slots.

5. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a vertical symmetry line associated with the adapter plate;

a longitudinal symmetry line associated with the adapter plate; and

wherein the first set of holes are arranged symmetrically about relative to both the vertical symmetry line and the longitudinal symmetry line.

6. The adapter plate combination of claim 5, further comprising:

the plate defining wherein the second set of slots offset are offset entirely to a second side of the plate relative to the vertical symmetry line, wherein one set of the three sets of holes is included in the second set of slots.

7. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

the plate defining a first set of slots, wherein one of the three holes is part of the first set of slots; and

a linear edge in the adapter plate connected to an arcuate edge in the adapter plate defining a slotted opening through the plate, wherein the slotted opening is part of one slot of the first set of slots;

wherein the first set of slots permits slight longitudinal adjustability.

8. The adapter plate combination of claim 7, further comprising:

a first end of the concave surface adjacent the first edge and a second end of the concave surface adjacent the second edge such that the channel extends across the adapter plate.

9. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a top edge on the adapter plate extending between the first and second edges; and

a concave surface adjacent the top edge defining a channel in a surface of the adapter plate.

10. The adapter plate combination of claim 9, further comprising:

a forward facing front surface on the adapter plate, wherein the channel is defined in the front surface.

11. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a bottom edge on the adapter plate extending longitudinally between the first and second edges;

a longitudinally extending concave surface adjacent the bottom edge defining a bottom channel in a front surface of the adapter plate; and

a longitudinally extending convex surface opposite the concave surface defining a longitudinal protrusion on a rear surface of the adapter plate.

12. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a first concave surface adjacent a top edge of the adapter plate defining a channel;

a second concave surface adjacent a bottom edge of the adapter plate defining a channel; and

wherein the first, second, and third holes are positioned between the first and second concave surfaces.

13. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, further comprising:

a first protrusion on a back surface of the adapter plate member;

a second protrusion on the back surface spaced apart from the first protrusion, each of the first and second protrusions adapted to face a substrate when adaptably mounting two monitors to an arm mount with a single abutment plate.

14. The adapter plate combination of claim 1, in combination with an arm mount for mounting a monitor, the combination comprising:

a first set of holes formed in the plate member, wherein one of the three holes is part of the first set of holes; and

wherein the abutment plate on the arm mount defining defines a plurality of holes for receiving a bolt therethrough, the plurality of holes in the abutment plate arranged complementary to the first set of holes formed in the plate.

15. In combination, an adapter plate holding first and second monitors to an arm mount, the combination comprising:

a set of holes formed in the adapter plate, wherein a hole is one hole in the set of holes;

a first set of slots formed in the adapter plate wherein a first slot is one slot in the first set of slots;

a second set of slots formed in the adapter plate, wherein a second slot is one slot in the second set of slots;

an abutment plate on the arm mount defining a plurality of holes for receiving a bolt therethrough, the plurality of holes in the abutment plate arranged complementary to the set of holes formed in the adapter plate;

a first set of nuts on the first monitor;

a second set of nuts on the second monitor; and

wherein the first and second sets of slots are arranged complementary to the first and second set of nuts respectively to allow fasteners to extend through the first and second set of slots into the nuts when the two monitors abut the adapter plate that contacts the abutment plate.

16. The combination of claim 15, further comprising:

a forward facing first surface on the adapter plate member;

a rearward facing second surface on the adapter plate member;

the two monitors positioned forwardly from the first surface; and

the arm mount positioned rearwardly from the second surface.

17. The combination of claim 15, further comprising:

a slot formed in the adapter plate member receiving a fastener therethrough;

wherein the slot permits slight adjustability of the first and second monitors.