Electronic display panel
AssigneeDaktronics, Inc.
InventorJohn W. Syrstad
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Abstract
An electronic display panel having a combination of aligned and connected forwardly located panels to which a plurality of rearwardly located LED modules easily and readily secure using three-point attachment to form an electronic display panel suitable for accommodation by and for securing to the structure and framework of a sign system. Configured spacer brackets offer mutual spaced support between the front and rear panels and are constructed using arcuate geometry for dimension minimalizing to prevent interference with the viewing of the LED pixels. Notches are located along the bottom edge of the electronic display panel for simple engagement, such as with an arcuate surface of a pivot bar incorporated in a lower structure of a sign system.
Claims31
An electronic display panel comprising:
- a. a combination of aligned and connected forwardly located components and a plurality of rearwardly located LED (light emitting diode) modules easily and readily secured to the combination of aligned and connected forwardly located components;
- b. major forwardly located components including, in order from front to back, a front panel, a seal, a polycarbonate panel, spacer brackets, and a rear panel and rearwardly located LED (light emitting diode) modules;
- and,
- c. the rearwardly located LED modules including an insertion panel, the insertion panel having an apertured planar section including a plurality of imperforate offset tabs being located at a lower region of the panel and an opposed tab being located at an upper region of the panel wherein the opposed tab extends upwardly from and along the plane of the apertured planar section, the opposed tab including an opposed latch which readily engages the rear panel of the forwardly located components in three-point attachment, whereby the geometry of the forwardly located components and the rearwardly located components is configured together or separately to offer minimum dimension structure where panels or edges of panels are mated and/or joined with such dimension minimalizing allows uniform spacing of the LED pixels across each of the adjacent LED modules, as well as across adjoining forwardly located components.
An electronic display panel comprising:
- a. forward combination of aligned and connected components having a rear panel;
- and,
- b. a plurality of rearwardly located LED modules, each of the LED modules having a plurality of LEDs arranged thereon, each of the LED modules easily and readily secured to the rear panel of the forward combination of aligned and connected components, each of the LED modules having an insertion panel defining an apertured planar section including:
- (1) a plurality of imperforate offset tabs being located at a lower region of the panel;
- and,
- (2) an opposed tab being located at an upper region of the panel wherein the opposed tab extends upwardly from and along the plane of the apertured planar section, the opposed tab including an opposed latch which readily engages the rear panel of the forward combination of aligned and connected components in three-point attachment.
A method of providing an electronic display comprising the steps of:
- a. providing an electronic display panel including:
- (1) a forward combination of aligned and connected components having a rear panel;
- and,
- (2) a plurality of rearwardly located LED modules, each of the LED modules having a plurality of LEDs arranged thereon, each of the LED modules easily and readily secured to the rear panel of the forward combination of aligned and connected components, each of the LED modules having an insertion panel defining an apertured planar section including:
- (i)a plurality of imperforate offset tabs being located at a lower region of the panel;
- and,
- (ii) an opposed tab being located at an upper region of the panel wherein the opposed tab extends upward from and along the plane of the apertured planar section, the opposed tab including an opposed latch which readily engages the rear panel of the forward combination of aligned and connected components in three-point attachment;
- b. installing the electronic display panel in a sign system;
- and,
- c. powering selected LEDs of the LED module.
A method of maintaining an electronic display panel, the display panel having a forward combination of aligned and connected components having a rear panel and a plurality of rearwardly located LED modules, each of the LED modules having a plurality of LEDs arranged thereon, each of the LED modules easily and readily secured to the rear panel of the forward combination of aligned and connected components, each of the LED modules including an insertion panel, the insertion panel having an apertured planar section including a plurality of imperforate offset tabs being located at a lower region of the panel and an opposed tab being located at an upper region of the panel wherein the opposed tab extends upwardly from and along the plane of the apertured planar section, the opposed tab including an opposed latch which readily engages the rear panel of the forward combination of aligned and connected components in a three-point attachment, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. disengaging the three-point attachment by releasing the opposed latch and subsequently pivoting the insertion panel about the offset tabs to separate the LED module from the rear panel;
- and,
- b. engaging an LED module to the rear panel by pivoting the insertion panel about the offset tabs to contact and then engage the opposed latch, and thereby establish the three-point attachment of the LED module to the rear panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.