US 8,786,796 B2Granted

Display device

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKeita Ito, Eiji Iwata, Masahiro Ohtake

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Abstract

In a structure for holding a display panel disposed within a cabinet, which includes a frame part positioned on one side of a display face of the display panel; a peripheral part positioned around the display panel; and a rear part covering the other face side of the display panel, from both sides by the frame part and a holding member supported by the peripheral part, a projecting portion projects on an inner face portion of the frame part in a position on an outer peripheral side of a rim portion of the display panel and the holding member so as to extend from the side of the display face of the display panel toward the opposite side of the display face, and a reinforcing portion for coupling the inner face portion of the projecting portion and the inner face portion of the frame part is provided.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A display device comprising:

a cabinet including a frame part being disposed on a first face side corresponding to a display face of a display panel and having an opening, a peripheral part connected to an outer periphery of the frame part and positioned so as to cover peripheral faces of display panel, and a rear part connected to the peripheral part and covering a second face side of the display panel;
the display panel disposed within the cabinet and held from both sides thereof by the frame part and a holding member supported on the peripheral part or the rear part;
a projecting portion that projects inside the frame part, disposed outside a rim portion of the display panel and the holding member and extends from the first face side toward the second face side, wherein the projecting portion is an annular projection provided continuously outside the rim portion of the display panel;
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a reinforcing portion that is disposed only inside the projecting portion and couples the projecting portion with an interior of the frame part.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/740,626Filed 27 Oct 2008
Priority: JP 2007-28081529 Oct 2007
Published: US 2010/0253874 A17 Oct 2010
Granted: 22 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G02F 1/133308
Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods: support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
G02F 1/133311
Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels: environmental protection, e.g. against dust or humidity
G02F 1/133317
Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels: intermediate frames, e.g. between backlight housing and front frame
G02F 1/13332
Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels: front frames

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