Display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9307658-B2
Application number	US-201514686395-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2015
Priority date	Apr 15, 2014
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel for displaying an image, a back cover mounted on a rear surface of the display panel, and a curvature adjustment unit mounted on the rear surface of the back cover to adjustment a curvature of the back cover according to user's manual manipulation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display apparatus comprising: a display panel for displaying an image; a back cover mounted on a rear surface of the display panel; and a curvature adjustment unit mounted on the rear surface of the back cover to adjustment a curvature of the back cover according to user's manual manipulation;
and the curvature adjustment unit comprises: a button member slid within a casing in a vertical direction of the back cover according to user's downward pressing; at least one cam part rotating in a horizontal direction of the back cover according to the sliding of the button member; and a pair of wings slid, on the at least one cam part, closer to or away from each other in the horizontal direction of the back cover according to the rotation of the at least one cam part.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the pair of wings are closer to each other, the curvature of the back cover decreases, and
when the pair of wings are away from each other, the curvature of the back cover increases.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein each of the wings has one end slidably mounted on the at least one cam part and the other end fixed to the rear surface of the back cover.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the curvature adjustment unit comprises an adjustment unit casing mounted on the rear surface of the back cover to accommodate the button member and the cam part,
wherein the adjustment unit casing comprises:
at least one button member insertion part having an insertion hole into which the button member is inserted; and
at least one cam part accommodation chamber connected to the insertion hole to accommodate the at least one cam part, the at least one cam part providing a space in which the at least one cam part horizontally rotates.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the button member comprises:
a push button for user's manipulation, which is exposed to an upper side of the adjustment unit casing; and
a button body connected to the push button, the button body being slidably inserted into the button member insertion hole in the vertical direction,
wherein, when the button body is slid, at least a pair of guide protrusions for guiding the horizontal rotation of the at least one cam part protrudes from the button body.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein a pair of rotation prevention ribs for preventing the button body from rotating when the button body is slid are disposed on the button body, and
a pair of rotation prevention guide grooves into which the pair of rotation prevention ribs are slidably inserted in the vertical direction are defined in an inner wall of the insertion hole.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the at least one cam part comprises:
a cam body having an inner hollow into which the button body is inserted, the cam body rotating in the vertical direction when the button body is slid; and
a pair of cam pulleys having one sides connected to each of the wings and the other sides disposed to face each other with the inner hollow therebetween,
wherein a guide groove part into which each of the at least pair of guide protrusions is slidably inserted is defined in an inner wall of the inner hollow of the cam body.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the pair of cam pulleys pull each of the wings into the cam part accommodation chamber or push each of the wings out of the cam part accommodation chamber when the cam body rotates.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the curvature adjustment unit comprises an elastic part accommodated in the inner hollow of the cam body and comprising an elastic member, wherein the elastic member pushes the button body upward when the button body is slid along the guide groove part.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the guide groove part comprises:
a plurality of downward slide guide grooves spaced a predetermined distance from each other, the plurality of downward slide guide being inclinedly defined in a lower portion of the inner wall of the inner hollow; and
a plurality of upward slide guide grooves connecting the downward slide guide grooves to each other, the plurality of upward slide grooves being spaced a predetermined distance from each other and defined in the inner wall of the inner hollow.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the cam body comprises:
a cylindrical part having the inner hollow; and
upper and lower plates exposing the inner hollow, the upper and lower plates are disposed above and below the cylindrical part,
wherein guide paths corresponding to each other in a circumferential direction of the upper and lower plates to guide the horizontal rotation of the cam body are defined in bottom and top surfaces of the upper and lower plates, respectively.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a plurality of stopper grooves are defined in the pair of guide paths at positions that radially correspond to upper ends of the plurality of downward slide guide grooves.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein each of the wings comprises:
a horizontal part connected to each of the cam pulleys, the horizontal part being spaced a predetermined distance from the rear surface of the back cover; and
a vertical part vertically extending from the horizontal part, the vertical part being fixed to the rear surface of the back cover.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the cam part comprises a first cam part and a second cam part,
the cam part accommodation chamber comprises a first cam part accommodation chamber accommodating the first cam part and a second cam part accommodation chamber accommodating the second cam part, and
the button member insertion part comprises an upper button member insertion part disposed above the first cam part accommodation chamber and a lower button member insertion part disposed between the first cam part accommodation chamber and the second cam part accommodation chamber.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the horizontal part comprises:
an upper horizontal bar connected to the first cam part; and
a lower horizontal bar connected to the second cam part, the lower horizontal bar being vertically spaced a predetermined distance from the first horizontal bar.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Song Jongwon
• Kim Kihyun
• Sung Jaehyun
• Yu Hyunuk
• Kang Kitae
• Ryu Inkeun
• Shin Donghyok
• Gu Kyoyoon

Classifications

• F16M2200/024

  by positive interaction, e.g. male-female connections · CPC title

• H05K5/0017

  with operator interface units · CPC title

• H04N5/64

  Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers (furniture aspects {of television cabinets} A47B81/06) · CPC title

• F16M11/22

  with approximately constant height, e.g. with constant length of column or of legs (F16M11/42 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/1601 Primary

  Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays (constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64) · CPC title