US 9,320,150 B2Granted

Display apparatus

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsMasaki Nakayama, Motoji Shiota, Takashi Matsui, Hiroki Miyazaki

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Abstract

A display apparatus is provided with: a frame; a display panel, which is fixed to the frame; and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards, which are disposed adjacent to each other, and each of which has one end side pressure bonded to the display panel, and the other end side bent to the frame side, which is the reverse side of the display panel. The display apparatus has adhesive areas wherein a surface of the display panel is adhered and fixed to the frame, the adhesive areas being in areas overlapping the flexible printed circuit boards. In regions among the flexible printed circuit boards adjacent to each other, non-adhesive areas where the surface of the display panel is not adhered and fixed to the frame are provided.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A display device, comprising:

a chassis;
a display panel fixed to a front of the chassis;
and
a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards that are arranged adjacent to each other with a gap therebetween along a side of the chassis, one end of each flexible printed circuit board being attached to the display panel, each flexible printed circuit board being bent such that another end of the flexible printed circuit board is on a rear of the chassis,
wherein the display panel is bonded to the chassis in select areas, which correspond to overlaps between the respective flexible printed circuit boards and the display panel in a plan view, and
wherein the display panel is not physically bonded to the chassis in an area other than the select areas along said side of the chassis, where the flexible printed circuit board does not overlap the display in the plan view.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/376,755Filed 31 Jan 2013
Priority: JP 2012-0240437 Feb 2012
Published: US 2015/0029436 A129 Jan 2015
Granted: 19 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H05K 1/189
Structurally associated with non-printed electric components: characterised by the use of flexible or folded printed circuits
G02F 1/1339
Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods: gaskets; Spacers; Sealing of cells
G02F 1/13452
Conductors connecting electrodes to cell terminals: conductors connecting driver circuitry and terminals of panels
H05K 1/142
Structural association of two or more printed circuits: arrangements of planar printed circuit boards in the same plane, e.g. auxiliary printed…