Patent Application
20180319124
The technical field relates to a screen film, in particular, to a screen film with an attachment element capable of achieving the privacy protection effect by directly attaching market available attachment elements onto a screen film.
Recently, with the development of network and convenience of mobile network, the usage rates of a great number of portable mobile devices/handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, notebook computers or other portable consumer electronics increases continuously, which have become products essential to the people's modern living. Researches have shown that there is an increasing probability of peeping of adjacent people at the contents of the aforementioned mobile devices of users in public areas due to spying, curiosity or accidental viewing. Therefore, to protect the privacy of users from damages or infringements, privacy sheets (or privacy filters) are developed by manufactures and are available in the market, provided to allow users to secure such films or sheets on the display monitors of the aforementioned mobile devices via the method of adhesion or external film frame structure etc.
However, for some brands, such as the mobile devices from Apple, their display monitor protective shells are made of metal such that if a current existing privacy sheet is directly adhered thereon to form a layer of privacy sheet, or a privacy sheet is embedded onto the protective shell, then glue residual is likely to left on the screen monitor during the removal of such sheets; or users cannot remove or install the privacy sheets freely depending upon the needs; therefore, the removal, installation and use of such privacy sheets are inconvenient to users. Furthermore, the current adhesion method of privacy sheets is not able to satisfy the market demands. As a result, there is a need for relevant manufacturers to seek and research for a solution capable of providing and development privacy sheets of greater convenience.
An objective of the present invention is to provide a screen film with an attachment element capable of allowing the selective use of such screen film depending upon different electronic devices in order to achieve the effect of privacy protection effectively while having the merits of quick attachment, reusable, low cost and convenient operation.
To achieve the aforementioned objective, the present invention provides a screen film with an attachment element, used for attaching onto an electronic device having a display screen, the attachment element arranged on any one edge of any one side surface of the screen film; the attachment element configured to attach onto the display screen correspondingly in order to be installed onto the display screen of the electronic device.
Preferably, the attachment element is an attached portion or an attaching portion.
Preferably, wherein the attached portion is made of a metal material or a material selected from any one of a metal powder, plastic/rubber, adhesive agent, foam, non-woven cloth, sheathing paper/film; the attaching portion is made of a magnet or a material selected from magnetic powder, plastic/rubber, adhesive agent, foam, non-woven cloth, sheathing paper/film.
Preferably, it further comprises another attached portion or another attaching portion correspondingly arranged on another side surface of the attached portion or the attaching portion in order to enhance attachment thereof onto the display screen.
Preferably, it further comprises an adhesive material disposed at an inner side of the attached portion or the attaching portion.
Preferably, the adhesive material is any one of a double-side tape, epoxy resin AB gel, polyurethane adhesive agent or metal glue.
Preferably, it further comprises a decorative material adhered onto an outer surface of the attachment element or onto another side surface of the attachment element.
Preferably, the decorative material is made of a material of any one of a PET film, a PC film or a Mylar film.
Preferably, the screen film is a privacy filter.
Preferably, wherein the attachment element includes two folding portions, a connecting portion connected to the two folding portions and a gap formed between the two folding portions; the two folding portions attached onto the two side surfaces corresponding to the edge respectively, and the gap is configured to receive the edge therein.
Preferably, wherein the attachment element is of a horseshoe shape and encloses the edge of the screen film along a direction of the edge.
Preferably, it further comprises an adhesive material adhered onto a surface of the gap of the attachment element in order to increase an adhesive force of the attachment element.
The present invention further includes the following technical effects. The attachment element can be selectively attached and arranged onto one identical edge of any one side surface of corresponding two side surfaces of one identical edge in order to increase the magnetic attachment force appropriately such that the screen film of the present invention is able to firmly attach onto the display screen or its bracket. Furthermore, the user can remove the screen film from the display screen depending upon the needs such that it is of great convenience for quick uses and of low cost.
The following provides a detailed description on the technical content of the present invention along with the accompanied drawings. However, it shall be understood that the accompanied drawings are provided for reference and illustration purposes only, which shall not be used to limit the scope of the present invention.
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For the privacy filter of the present exemplary embodiment, the structure from top to bottom is constructed by a resin layer, an adhesive layer, an optical grating layer, an adhesive layer and a resin layer sequentially. The optical grating layer is used for providing a visible range within a particular angle. To be more specific, the optical grating layer (not shown in the drawings) can be, for example, formed by a plurality of different optical grating fine boards (not shown in the drawings, which is configured by using the principle of micro louver in order to limit the light ray within a certain angle. If the horizontal left and right viewing angles exceed 30 degree, then the visibility significantly decreases with a brightness of 5% of the orthogonal viewing angle; therefore, the privacy protection effect can be achieved sufficiently. If the viewing angle deviation is greater, the brightness becomes lower such that the effect of information confidentiality can be achieved.
The attachment element 120 is arranged on any one edge 112 of any one side surface 110 of the screen film 100. The attachment element 120 utilizes the magnetic attraction principle to attach onto the display screen 20 correspondingly in order to cover onto the display screen 20 of the electronic device 30. In the exemplary embodiment shown in
The attached portion described here can also be made of a metal material or a material selected from any one of metal powder, plastic/rubber, adhesive agent, foam, non-woven cloth, sheathing paper/film, such as metal flexible tape, metal flexible cloth, metal flexible foam, metal flexible paper/film etc. in order to be attached onto the bracket 10 of the electronic device 30 with magnetism, such as MACBOOK or other electronic products. The attaching portion can be made of a magnet or a material selected from any one of magnet powder, plastic/rubber, adhesive agent, foam, non-woven cloth, sheathing paper/film, such as magnetic flexible tape, magnetic flexible cloth, magnetic flexible foam, magnetic flexible paper/film etc. in order to be attached onto the bracket 10 of the electronic device 30 made of metal material, such as iPhone or other electronic product. Accordingly, the present exemplary embodiment can be a screen film 100 with the selective use of the aforementioned attached portion or attaching portion depending upon the needs of different electronic devices 30. The screen film 100 according to the present exemplary embodiment is of the characteristic of reusability.
When the display screen 30 or the bracket 10 of the electronic device 30 is of magnetism, the attachment element 120 can be selected to be an attached portion of a metal flexible tape, metal flexible cloth, metal flexible foam, and metal flexible paper/film. When the display screen 20 or the bracket 10 of the electronic device 30 is of a metal material, the attachment element 120 can be selected to be an attaching portion made of a magnetic flexible tape, magnetic flexible cloth, magnetic flexible foam, and magnetic flexible paper/film. Accordingly, the attachment element 120 of the present exemplary embodiment is of the merits of quick attachment, low cost and convenient operation.
Since the privacy filter can cause the issues of darkening of brightness of display screen 20 and the reduction of sharpness of the image, if it is used for a long period of time, the vision of human eyes can be damaged. Consequently, when the user uses the screen film 100 of the present exemplary embodiment in a public place, appropriate attachment element 120 can be selected for use on the bracket 10 of various types of electronic products 30 of different materials in order to be attached onto the display monitor 20 for achieving the privacy protection effect and the objective of preventing infringement of privacy. In addition, when the screen film 100 is not required or when eyes are tired, the screen film 100 can be removed quickly. Therefore, the removal and use of the screen film is extremely convenient and fast; furthermore, it does not have the problem of damaging the electronic device 30 and its bracket 10.
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Furthermore, in a fourth exemplary embodiment of the present invention as shown in
Accordingly, the attachment element 120 in each one of the aforementioned exemplary embodiment can be arranged onto any one edge 112 of the screen film 100 via the method of direct attachment, adhesion or enclosure etc., which is facilitated for manufacturing and of low cost. In addition, based on different products and different habits of consumers, the attachment element 120 of the aforementioned exemplary embodiments can be selectively attached onto the edge 112 of one side or more of any one side surface 110 or corresponding two side surfaces 110 of one identical edge 112 in order to increase the magnetic attractive force; consequently, the screen film 100 of all of the aforementioned exemplary embodiments can be firmly attached onto the display screen 20 or the bracket 10 thereof. Moreover, the user can remove the screen film 100 from the display screen or the bracket thereof at any time depending upon the needs such that its use is convenient, fast, reusable and of low cost.
The above describes the preferable and feasible exemplary embodiments of the present invention for illustrative purposes only, which shall not be treated as limitations of the scope of the present invention. Any equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the scope of the claims of the present invention shall be considered to be within the scope of the claim of the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 106206300 | May 2017 | TW | national |
| 106212628 | Aug 2017 | TW | national |
