Structure for mounting flat panel display

• US 7,106,392 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2002
• Issued: 09/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: LG Philips LCD Company Limited (LG Display Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: You, Dong Jae
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Ahshik
• Assistant Examiner(s): Caputo, Lisa M.
• Application Number:
  US10/184,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20030011550A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,537 Days
• Field of Search: 349/58, 349/56, 349 60- 65
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing

Abstract

A structure for mounting a flat panel display module constituting a screen display device of a portable computer system wherein the weight and a thickness of a display device are reduced. For example, the structure for mounting a flat panel display includes a display module having a flat panel display panel, a backlight assembly, and a supporting member for supporting edges of the flat panel display panel and the back light assembly, a rear cover to which the display module is fitted, and a front cover fitted to a frontal edge of the rear cover to cover a frontal edge of the display module. In this structure the supporting member is formed at an inner side of the front cover.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a flat panel display module for displaying an image, wherein the flat panel display module has a top edge, a bottom edge and two side edges;

a rear cover for fixing the flat panel display module, wherein the rear cover has a front side and a rear side;

a front cover arranged on the front side of the rear cover and covering a frontal edge of the flat panel display module, wherein the front cover has an inner side; and

a supporting member for supporting each edge of the flat panel display module, wherein the supporting member protrudes from the inner side of the front cover, wherein said supporting member is contiguously disposed around the inner side of the front cover.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the flat panel display module is an LCD module comprising:

an LC panel for outputting an image;

a backlight assembly formed at a rear side of the LC panel for emitting light into the LC panel;

wherein the LC panel and the backlight assembly of the LCD module are not fixed together, but arranged freely and supported by the front cover supporting member.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the supporting member is formed as a unit along the inner side of the front cover.

4. The display device of claim 2, wherein the supporting member is divided into plural parts arranged along the inner side of the front cover.

5. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising:

a LCD module comprising a liquid crystal (LC) panel, spread sheets, prism sheets, a light-guiding plate, a reflection sheet, a lamp, a mold frame, and a backlight assembly wherein the LC panel and the backlight assembly are not fixedly attached together;

a rear cover; and

a front bezel including a supporting member protruding from a surface of the front bezel, the supporting member supporting side portions of the LCD module, wherein said supporting member is contiguously disposed about said front bezel;

wherein the front bezel supports an edge of the LCD module; and

wherein the front bezel is arranged on the rear cover and the LCD module is arranged between the front bezel and the rear cover.

6. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 5, wherein the front bezel and the supporting member include synthetic resin.

7. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 6, wherein the supporting member is curved to an inner side of the front bezel.

8. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 7, wherein the supporting member has a portion curved to an inner side of the front bezel and an outer lower surface of the LCD module is supported by the curved portion.

9. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 8, wherein the front bezel is secured to sides of the rear cover with screws.

10. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 8, wherein the front bezel is secured to a back of the rear cover with screws into a reinforcing bracket.

11. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 8, wherein the front bezel is secured to a back of the rear cover with screws.

12. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 6, further comprising:

a reinforcing bracket arranged at an outer side of the supporting member.

13. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 12, wherein the reinforcing bracket has a “

C”

shape.

14. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 5, wherein the front bezel is formed as a single unit.

15. The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of claim 5, wherein the front bezel is formed with at least two parts.