The present invention relates to Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) devices, and particularly to an LCD device having an LCD panel readily installed or removed.
A typically folded electronic device, such as a notebook computer, includes a main system, and a monitor pivotably mounted to the main system. The monitor includes a bracket, and an LCD panel. A plurality of screw holes is defined in opposite sides of the LCD panel. A plurality of through-holes is defined in opposite sides of the bracket. Screws are inserted through the through-holes to engage in the corresponding screw holes to secure the LCD panel to the bracket.
In the above-noted disclosed technology, however, the screws directly mount the LCD panel to the bracket, which may not absorb vibration during handling of the folded electronic device.
In Taiwan Patent No. 478603, a monitor of a notebook computer includes a cover, a bezel, an LCD panel, a pair of elastic members, and a plurality of screws. In assembling the LCD panel, the elastic members are mounted to opposite sides of the LCD panel via a plurality of screws. The elastic members are mounted to opposite sides of the cover via a plurality of screws, too. Then, the bezel is mounted to the cover via a plurality of screws. The elastic members mounted between the bracket and the LCD panel can absorb vibration to protect the LCD panel. However, this way of securing the LCD panel uses so many screws, which is unduly painstaking and time-consuming.
What is desired, therefore, is an LCD device which readily allows installation or removal of an LCD panel.
An exemplary A liquid crystal display device includes a bracket, and a liquid crystal display panel. The bracket includes a bezel, and a cover mounted to the bezel. One of the bezel and the cover includes an elastic member mounted to a side thereof. A side of the liquid crystal display panel is mounted to the elastic member.
Other advantages and novel features will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
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The cover 50 includes two flanges 52 perpendicularly extending from opposite sides thereof toward the bezel 10. A plurality of covering tabs 54 extends from each flange 52. Each covering tab 54 corresponds to a cutout 23 of the flanges 21. Four poles (not shown) each defining a screw hole extend down from four corners of the cover 50, respectively.
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In disassembly, the screws 25, 27 are released from the LCD panel 30. The LCD panel 30 is then removed from the bezel 10. The avoiding cutouts 23 of the flanges 21 give access for extension and use of tools therein such as a screwdriver when assembling or disassembling the LCD panel 30.
In a second embodiment of the present invention, the mounting plate 13, the elastic members 15, and the orientating tabs may be formed at corresponding places of the cover 50. Then, the cutouts 23 may be defined in the flanges 52 of the cover 50, and the covering tabs 54 may extend from the flanges 21 of the bezel 10.
It is believed that the present embodiment and its advantages will be understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that various changes may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the example hereinbefore described merely being a preferred or exemplary embodiment of the invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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200520066219.8 | Oct 2005 | CN | national |