E-book

• US 9,141,147 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2010
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoo, Jeongsun
• Primary Examiner(s): GAY, SONIA L
• Application Number:
  US13/502,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20120281866A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,805 Days
• Field of Search: 381/333
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an e-book, the e-book including a first cover provided with a display panel outputting a screen, a second cover mounted on the first cover to furnish a receiving space between the first cover and the second cover, a support frame supporting the display panel and making a circuit substrate safely placed thereon, and a speaker electrically connected to the circuit substrate, wherein a sound groove is formed in the support frame, indented towards the first cover side to safely place the speaker, and a distance from the support frame surface to the sound groove bottom surface is formed to be equal to or larger than a distance from the sound groove bottom surface to the speaker surface, capable of enhancing an output effect of sound and minimizing a space occupied by a soundbox of a speaker and thus realizing overall slimness.

Claims

1. An e-book, comprising:

a first cover provided with a display panel outputting a screen;

a second cover mounted on the first cover to provide a receiving space between the first cover and the second cover;

a support frame supporting the display panel and making a circuit substrate safely placed thereon; and

a speaker electrically connected to the circuit substrate,

wherein a sound groove is formed in the support frame, indented towards the first cover side to safely place the speaker, and

a distance from the support frame surface to the sound groove bottom surface is equal to or greater than a distance from the sound groove bottom surface to the speaker surface.

2. The e-book as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support frame further includes a guide guiding in a direction that a cable of the speaker is fixed to the circuit substrate.

3. The e-book as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support frame includes,

a main plate safely placing the circuit substrate and a battery, and

a partition wall projecting along the edges of the main plate to isolate the main plate from the first cover.

4. The e-book as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the sound groove is constructed at opposite sides of the support frame at a certain interval to form one pair, and the guide is formed between a pair of sound grooves to face each other, and a hole is formed between the guide to be connected to the circuit substrate.

5. The e-book as claimed in claim 4, wherein the circuit substrate is provided with a connector coupled to an end part of the cable.

6. The e-book as claimed in claim 4, wherein a guide includes,

a guide groove formed from one side of the sound groove to a hole to guide a cable, and

a leave projectingly formed at one side of the guide groove to press down the cable.

7. The e-book as claimed in claim 1, wherein the circuit substrate is provided with a connector coupling to an end part of the cable.

8. The e-book as claimed in claim 5, wherein the guide groove further includes an assisting groove formed at a certain gap from an end part of the leave for connection to the hole.