US 6,802,575 B1 · Rack mount

Abstract

A rack mount capable of housing an LCD display, LCD monitor, television, CRT, or other like display. The rack mount is preferably of knock down construction, but certain portions of the rack mount may alternatively be of unitary construction, and may be assembled quickly and easily. The rack mount is adjustable to accommodate displays, monitors, televisions, CRT's, or other like displays having different depths, may be mounted in an EIA (Electronics Industry Association) equipment rack, and provides a VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) standard mounting hole pattern for mounting the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display thereto. The rack mount is capable of allowing cables of the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display to be fed to a space rear of the rack mount, and facilitate fastening appliances, accessories, cable ties, and/or the cables from the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display thereto.

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Dependent claims

A rack mount for housing a display, monitor, television or CRT comprising:

a face plate,
a first substantially rectangular hole in said face plate, adapted for viewing said display, monitor, television or CRT, through said hole
a second substantially rectangular hole in said face plate for accessing a portion of said display, monitor, television or CRT, through said second hole and said face plate having means for mounting said rack mount to a rack;
bezels,
said bezels fastened to said face plate adjacent said first substantially rectangular hole and extending into said first substantially rectangular hole;
retaining brackets,
said retaining brackets fastened to said face plate adjacent said second substantially rectangular hole and extending into said second substantially rectangular hole;
a substantially rectangular cover plate,
said substantially rectangular cover plate removably fastened to said retaining brackets, and covering said second substantially rectangular hole, when said substantially rectangular cover plate is fastened to said retaining brackets;
an H shaped back plate,
said H shaped back plate having means for mounting to said display, monitor, television or CRT;
L shaped brackets,
said L shaped brackets fastened to said face plate;
U shaped brackets,
said U shaped brackets fastened to said H shaped back plate and said L shaped brackets;
and
said rack mount having slot means for adjusting depth of said rack mount.

14 more elements

A rack mount for housing a display, monitor, television or CRT, comprising:

a face plate,
a first substantially rectangular hole, in said face plate adapted for viewing said display, monitor, television or CRT, through said first hole
a second substantially rectangular hole through said face plate for accessing through said second hole a portion of said display, monitor, television or CRT, and
said face plate having means for mounting said rack mount to a rack;
bezels,
said bezels fastened to said face plate adjacent said first substantially rectangular hole and extending into said first substantially rectangular hole at a substantially minimal glare reflecting angle from said face plate;
retaining brackets,
said retaining brackets fastened to said face plate adjacent said second substantially rectangular hole and extending into said second substantially rectangular hole;
a substantially rectangular cover plate,
said substantially rectangular cover plate removably fastened to said retaining brackets, and covering said second substantially rectangular hole, when said substantially rectangular cover plate is fastened to said retaining brackets;
an H shaped back plate,
said H shaped back plate having means for mounting said display, monitor, television or CRT;
L shaped brackets,
said L shaped brackets fastened to said face plate;
U shaped brackets,
said U shaped brackets fastened to said H shaped back plate and said L shaped brackets;
and
said rack mount having slot means for adjusting depth of said rack mount,
said U shaped brackets and said L shaped brackets fastened one to the other at said slot means for adjusting said depth.

16 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Description3,648 words

Summary2,096 words

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present invention relates generally to rack mounts and more particularly to rack mounts for monitors, displays, televisions, CRT's, and the like.

#2. Background Art

Detailed description1,552 words

#The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1-4 of the drawings. Identical elements in the various figures are identified with the same reference numbers.

#FIGS. 1-4 show a rack mount 10 for housing a display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display, comprising face plate 12, back plate 14, L brackets 16, U brackets 20, bezels 22 and 24, control panel cover plate 26, and retaining brackets 28. The face plate 12 has substantially rectangular hole 29, adapted for viewing the display of the display, monitor, television CRT, or other like display therethrough, and substantially rectangular hole 31, adapted for accessing controls and/or a front portion of the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display therethrough, and for receiving the control panel cover plate 26.

#The face plate 12 and the back plate 14 are substantially parallel one to the other, and substantially perpendicular to the L brackets 16, the L brackets 16 being substantially parallel one to the other. The face plate 12 has notches 33, which are adapted to facilitate mounting the rack mount 10 thereto a rack. The back plate 14 is substantially H shaped, and is adapted to allow cables of the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display to be fed to a space rear of the rack mount 10. The back plate 14 has holes 35, which are adapted to facilitate fastening the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display thereto. The U brackets 20 have holes 36, which are adapted to facilitate fastening the display, monitor, television, CRT, or other like display thereto.

Facts

Application

10/235,351Filed 5 Sep 2002

Granted

12 Oct 2004

Term ended

16 Nov 2022

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 72 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification4 codes

H05K 7/14
Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus: mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
H04N 5/64
Details of television systems: constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers
H05K
Printed circuits
H04N
Pictorial communication

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