Electro-optic apparatus and electronic instrument
View Patent ↗An electro-optic apparatus includes: an electro-optic panel; and a holding member configured to hold at least the electro-optic panel, in which the holding member includes a shoulder configured to support at least part of a peripheral edge of the electro-optic panel, and the shoulder does not support the electro-optic panel in at least an area of a part of a corner and a proximity thereof.
1. An electro-optic apparatus comprising:
an electro-optic panel; and
a holding member configured to hold at least the electro-optic panel, the holding member including a shoulder and a side wall portion, the shoulder formed at least to protrude inwardly from the side wall portion,
wherein a supporting part of the shoulder is configured to support at least part of a peripheral edge of the electro-optic panel, and
wherein a non-supporting part of the shoulder under the electro-optic panel in at least an area of a part of a corner and a proximity thereof does not support the electro-optic panel, said non-supporting part of the shoulder is formed with the entire inward protrusion of the shoulder to be lower than the supporting part of the shoulder such that a gap is foinied between the non-supporting part of the shoulder and the supporting part of the shoulder for the entire inward protrusion of the shoulder in a thickness direction of the holding member.
2. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the side wall portion is opposing a side surface of the electro-optic panel.
3. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the electro-optic panel includes a pair of substrates, one of the pair of substrates has a protruded portion which is not overlapped with the other substrate,
the electro-optic panel is supported by the shoulder from the side of the one substrate, and
the shoulder does not support the protruded portion.
4. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the shoulder does not support the electro-optic panel at the corner and the proximity thereof located out of an area overlapped with the protruded portion.
5. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the shoulder includes a bevel which declines from the area which comes into contact with the electro-optic panel toward an apex of the corner in the at least a part of an area of the corner and the proximity thereof.
6. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein an upper end of the bevel is positioned on the side away from the corner of the holding member than an end of a sealing member on the side of the corner of the electro-optic panel extending in parallel with the shoulder in the direction of extension of the shoulder having the bevel formed thereon.
7. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the non-supporting part of the shoulder is provided with a shock absorbing member in the at least a part of an area of the corner and the proximity thereof.
8. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the shoulder is not formed in an area of the holding member which does not support the electro-optic panel.
9. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the area of the shoulder which supports the electro-optic panel is formed of a double-faced adhesive member.
10. An electronic instrument comprising the electro-optic apparatus according to claim 9 .
11. The electro-optic apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the shoulder and the side wall portion are integrally molded.