US 12,262,491 B2
Display apparatus
Yuta Yamagami, Kobe (JP); and Daisuke Onojima, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to DENSO TEN Limited, Kobe (JP)
Filed by DENSO TEN Limited, Kobe (JP)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/147,896.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-044370 (JP), filed on Mar. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0301001 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 5/02 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0217 (2013.01) [B60R 11/0235 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0005 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display apparatus comprising:
a display panel having a front-most surface with an outer periphery;
a frame that surrounds and is spaced from the outer periphery of the front-most surface of the display panel in a planar view in which the display apparatus is viewed in a direction orthogonal to a plane of the display panel so that the frame is movable relative to the display panel, the frame including
(1) a front-most wall having an inner periphery and an outer periphery that is larger than the inner periphery, the inner periphery of the front-most wall being larger than the outer periphery of the front-most surface of the display panel so that the inner periphery of the front-most wall is spaced from the outer periphery of the front-most surface of the display panel,
(2) an inner wall that extends rearwardly from the inner periphery of the front-most wall, and
(3) an outer wall that extends rearwardly from the outer periphery of the front-most wall,
the front-most wall, the inner wall and the outer wall of the frame forming a C-shaped cross-section of the frame in the direction orthogonal to the plane of the display panel, so that a recess is formed rearwardly of the front-most wall between the inner wall and the outer wall of the frame; and
a bracket that holds the display panel from a back side of the display panel and extends outside the outer periphery of the front-most surface of the display panel and outside an outer circumference of the display panel in the planar view, wherein
the bracket (i) has a bending portion that (ia) extends toward a front side of the display panel outside the outer circumference of the display panel in the planar view, (ib) extends into the recess between the inner wall and the outer wall of the frame, and (ic) has a front-most end that is spaced by a gap from a rear surface of the front-most wall of the frame, (ii) supports the frame from a back side of the frame by the front-most end of the bending portion coming into contact with the rear surface of the front-most wall of the frame when an impact force in a rearward direction of the display apparatus is applied to the frame, and (iii) has an inwardly extending projection in the bending portion that holds a lateral surface of the display panel.