Modular fixture for display device
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsGuentaek Oh, Jeongki Kim
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A display device has alignment features that compensate for variability in open cells sourced from different vendors. A backlight is arranged behind or beneath an open cell to illuminate picture elements. The open cell and the backlight rest or reside within a cover shield. Because the open cell may have supplier variability, the cover shield has receptacles such as holes or apertures that align with features protruding from a module fixture. The modular fixture thus allows the open cell and the backlight to be arranged, aligned, and/or assembled to the covert shield, despite the supplier variability in the open cell.
Claims20
A display module, comprising:
- an open cell having picture elements;
- a backlight for illuminating the picture elements of the open cell;
- a lower cover shield mating with a bottom edge of the open cell, the lower cover shield having a bottom longitudinal edge and a receptacle along the bottom longitudinal edge;
- and
- a sliding “L”-shaped modular fixture having a sliding alignment feature sliding along the bottom longitudinal edge of the lower cover shield into an alignment with the receptacle along the lower cover shield.
A display device, comprising:
- an open cell having picture elements;
- a backlight for illuminating the picture elements of the open cell;
- a lower cover shield mating with a bottom edge of the open cell, the lower cover shield having a bottom longitudinal edge and a receptacle along the bottom longitudinal edge;
- a sliding “L”-shaped modular fixture having a sliding alignment feature sliding along the bottom longitudinal edge of the lower cover shield into an alignment with the receptacle along the cover shield;
- and
- a rear cover mating with the lower cover shield.
A display module, comprising:
- an open cell having picture elements;
- a backlight for illuminating the picture elements of the open cell;
- a lower cover shield mating with a bottom edge of the open cell, the lower cover shield having a bottom longitudinal edge and a plurality of receptacles along the bottom longitudinal edge;
- and
- a sliding “L”-shaped modular fixture having a sliding protruding pin sliding along the bottom longitudinal edge of the lower cover shield into an alignment with a receptacle of the plurality of the receptacles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.