Display apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Moriwaki, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Yozo Narutaki, Hisashi Watanabe
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Abstract
A display apparatus capable of reliably supporting a display panel and making a juncture between displays inconspicuous is provided. A display includes a liquid crystal panel having a front surface and a back surface, a module containing a backlight unit for driving the liquid crystal panel, a rear surface side housing for protecting and holding the backlight unit, and a convex lens arranged to cover a frame region of the liquid crystal panel, for guiding light from the front surface of the liquid crystal panel to a front surface side of the frame region and supporting the liquid crystal panel from the front surface.
Claims4
A display apparatus, comprising:
- a display panel having a front surface and a back surface;
- a module that drives said display panel;
- a housing that protects and holds said module;
- and
- a light guide member that covers a peripheral portion of said display panel, that guides light from said front surface of said display panel to a front surface side of said peripheral portion, and that supports said display panel from said front surface;
- wherein
- said light guide member includes a planoconvex lens causing a flat surface of the light guide member to be in surface contact with said front surface of said display panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.