# US 10,768,460 B2 · Display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,768,460 B2 - Document ID: US10768460B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/469,187 - Filed: 2017-12-21 - Published: 2019-11-21 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2016-12-27 - Assignees: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Yoshirou Kawasoe; Hiroya Tanaka; Katsumasa Ando; Kazuya Honda - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10768460B2 ## CPC - G02F 1/133308: {Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels} - G09F 9/00: Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements (in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00) - H04N 5/64: Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers (furniture aspects {of television cabinets} A47B81/06) - G02F 1/133314: {Back frames} - G02F 1/13332: {Front frames} - G02F 1/133325: {Assembling processes} - G02F 1/133328: {Segmented frames} - G02F: OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract A display device includes a display module including a display panel that displays an image in a display area provided at a front, and a bezel surrounding an outer edge of the display module. The display area has a rectangular shape. The bezel includes a plurality of bezel portions having an elongated shape and disposed to correspond to respective four sides of the display area, and a joining member joining together two adjacent bezel portions of the plurality of bezel portions. The joining member is disposed in a position where the joining member overlaps the display module on a back side of the display module. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device comprising: a display module including a display panel that displays an image in a display area provided at a front, the display area having a rectangular shape; and a bezel surrounding an outer edge of the display module, wherein the bezel includes: a plurality of bezel portions having an elongated shape and disposed to correspond to respective four sides of the display area; and a joining member joining together two adjacent bezel portions of the plurality of bezel portions, the joining member is disposed in a position where the joining member overlaps the display module on a back side of the display module, each bezel portion of the plurality of bezel portions has a plurality of through-holes at an end of the bezel portion in a longitudinal direction of the bezel portion, the plurality of through-holes being arranged in the longitudinal direction, the joining member includes: a metal bracket having a plate shape; and connecting members each connecting the metal bracket and the two adjacent bezel portions of the plurality of bezel portions, with the metal bracket and a part of each of the two adjacent bezel portions being disposed to overlap each other in a front-rear direction of the display module, and the connecting members includes: a first connecting member used in common for the two adjacent bezel portions and connecting the metal bracket and a first portion, in which a first through-hole is formed, of each of the two adjacent bezel portions, with the first connecting member passing through each of first through-holes, and with a gap existing between the metal bracket and each of first portions in the front-rear direction, the first through-hole being one of the plurality of through-holes of the bezel portion and being disposed at an outermost end in the longitudinal direction of the bezel portion. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein one bezel portion of the two adjacent bezel portions has, in a part overlapping an other bezel portion of the two adjacent bezel portions, a rib projecting rearwardly and extending in a longitudinal direction of the one bezel portion, and the other bezel portion has, in a part facing the rib of the one bezel portion, a groove recessed rearwardly and having a shape into which the rib fits. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a support substrate disposed rearwardly of the display panel and configured to support the display panel, wherein the bezel is fixed to the support substrate at a position away from a position where the joining member is disposed. ### Claim 4 A display device comprising: a display module including a display panel that displays an image in a display area provided at a front, the display area having a rectangular shape; and a bezel surrounding an outer edge of the display module, wherein the bezel includes: a plurality of bezel portions having an elongated shape and disposed to correspond to respective four sides of the display area; and a joining member joining together two adjacent bezel portions of the plurality of bezel portions, and the joining member is disposed in a position where the joining member overlaps the display module on a back side of the display module, each bezel portion of the plurality of bezel portions has a plurality of through-holes at an end of the bezel portion in a longitudinal direction of the bezel portion, the plurality of through-holes being arranged in the longitudinal direction, the joining member includes: a metal bracket having a plate shape; and connecting members each connecting the metal bracket and the two adjacent bezel portions of the plurality of bezel portions, with the metal bracket and a part of each of the two adjacent bezel portions being disposed to overlap each other in a front-rear direction of the display module, and the connecting members includes: a first connecting member used in common for the two adjacent bezel portions and connecting the metal bracket and a first portion, in which a first through-hole is formed, of each of the two adjacent bezel portions, with the first connecting member passing through each of first through-holes, and with a gap existing between the metal bracket and each of first portions in the front-rear direction, the first through-hole being one of the plurality of through-holes of the bezel portion and being disposed at an outermost end in the longitudinal direction of the bezel portion; and second connecting members used for each of the two adjacent bezel portions, one of the second connecting members connecting the metal bracket and a second portion, in which a second through-hole is formed, of a corresponding one of the two adjacent bezel portions, with the one of the second connecting members passing through the second through-hole, and with no gap existing between the metal bracket and the second portion in the front-rear direction, the second through-hole being one of the plurality of through-holes of the bezel portion and being different from the first through-hole. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The display device according to claim 4, wherein the first portion of one bezel portion of the two adjacent bezel portions and the first portion of an other bezel portion of the two adjacent bezel portions are connected to the metal bracket by the first connecting member, with the first portion of the one bezel portion and the first portion of the other bezel portion overlapping each other, and the first connecting member connects the first portion of the one bezel portion, the first portion of the other bezel portion, and the metal bracket with a gap existing in the front-rear direction. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The display device according to claim 5, wherein the first connecting member and the second connecting members are stepped screws, each of the first connecting member and the second connecting members has an external thread configured to screw into the metal bracket at a tip, a shank being larger in diameter than the external thread, and a head being larger in diameter than the shank, a sum of thicknesses of the first portion of each of the two adjacent bezel portions is less than a length, in an axial direction, of the shank of the first connecting member, and a thickness of the second portion of each of the two adjacent bezel portions is equal to or larger than a length, in an axial direction, of the shank of each of the second connecting members. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The display device according to claim 4, wherein a gap between the second through-hole and a corresponding one of the second connecting members in a radial direction of the second through-hole is larger than a gap between the first through-hole and the first connecting member in a radial direction of the first through-hole. ### Claim 8 (depends on 4) The display device according to claim 4, wherein the metal bracket has a plurality of fixing holes into which the connecting members are fixed respectively, and a projection disposed at a position from a position of a corresponding one of the plurality of fixing holes to a position inside the display area, the projection projecting toward a corresponding one of the bezel portions, the corresponding one of the plurality of fixing holes being a fixing hole into which one of the second connecting members is fixed.