US 7,623,342 B2Granted

Support structure for two or more flat panel display devices

AssigneeBloomberg Finance L.P.

InventorsHelmars E. Ozolins, Eric Nelson, Masamichi Udagawa, Peter D. Scott

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Abstract

A support structure for at least two flat panel display devices that permits adjustment of the at least two display devices in or about one or more axes, and a display system including such support structure and display devices while maintaining a constant space between the display devices in various configurations, alignments and orientations of the display devices. Such support structure, as provided in accordance with embodiments of the invention, provides for configuration of the at least two display devices, in a plurality of alignments in which fronts of the two display devices are generally aligned in a plane, for viewing together. Embodiments of the support structure provide for the two display devices to be positioned in a landscape and/or portrait configuration. Embodiments of the support structure provide for repositioning the display devices between horizontally and vertically-aligned configurations without disassembling the support structure itself and without disassembling either or both of the two display devices from the support structure.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A support for two flat panel display devices, comprising:

a bracket;
an arm coupled to the bracket for rotation of the arm about a first axis;
a coupling for each display device attached to the arm adapted to rotatably connect a respective display device to the arm for rotation of the respective display device about a respective second axis parallel to the first axis, the respective couplings being positioned so as to couple the arm to the two flat panel display devices at spaced locations of the arm with a space between the display devices when each is in either a landscape or a portrait orientation, each coupling being adapted to be connected to a respective display device at a location offset from the center of the respective display device and equidistant from adjacent sides of the respective display device such that when the two flat panel display devices are coupled to the arm by respective couplings and each display device is in either a landscape or portrait orientation, the display devices are separated by the same space therebetween;
the arm being rotatable about the first axis so that when the two flat panel display devices are coupled to the arm by the couplings, the two flat panel display devices can be repositioned between a first configuration of the two display devices in which the two display devices are horizontally aligned and a second configuration of the two display devices in which the two display devices are vertically aligned.

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A display system comprising two flat panel display devices and a support therefor, the support comprising:

a bracket;
an arm coupled to the bracket for rotation of the arm about a first axis;
a coupling for each display device attached to the arm to rotatably connect a respective display device to the arm for rotation of the respective display device about a respective second axis parallel to the first axis, the respective couplings being positioned so as to couple the arm to the two flat panel display devices at spaced locations of the arm with a space between the display devices when each is in either a landscape or a portrait orientation, each coupling being connected to a respective display device at a location offset from the center of the respective display device and equidistant from adjacent sides of the respective display device such that when each display device is in either a landscape or portrait orientation, the display devices are separated by the same space therebetween;
the arm being rotatable about the first axis so that when the two flat panel display devices are coupled to the arm by the couplings, the two flat panel display devices can be repositioned between a first configuration of the two display devices in which the two display devices are horizontally aligned and a second configuration of the two display devices in which the two display devices are vertically aligned.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/839,972Filed 16 Aug 2007 · us provisional application
Priority: 16 Aug 2006
Published: US 2008/0055832 A16 Mar 2008
Granted: 24 Nov 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

F16M 11/2014
Comprising means allowing pivoting adjustment: around a vertical axis
F16M 11/105
Around a horizontal axis: the horizontal axis being the roll axis, e.g. for creating a landscape-portrait rotation
F16M 11/14
In more than one direction: with ball-joint
F16M 2200/024
For rotational movement: by positive interaction, e.g. male-female connections