IP Library Patent Application 14135535
Patent Application
App. No. 14/135,535

DISPLAY DEVICE

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14/135,535
Abstract

A display device of the present disclosure includes: a display portion including a display face; a frame-shaped casing disposed so as to surround the display portion; and a decorative member disposed in contact with the casing. The decorative member is a light-transmissive member, and includes: a decorative portion forming a front face; and an attachment portion fixed to the casing and forming a back face opposite to the front face. The decorative member has formed therein a reflecting face configured to reflect light that is incident through the front face and travels in an inside of the decorative member along an optical axis direction perpendicular to the display face, and thereby to produce reflected light that travels in a direction different from the optical axis direction.

Claims (19)

1 . A display device comprising: a display portion comprising a display face having a function of displaying information; a frame-shaped casing disposed so as to surround the display portion; and a decorative member disposed in contact with the casing, wherein

the decorative member is a light-transmissive member,

assuming that a direction perpendicular to the display face is an optical axis direction, then

the decorative member comprises:

a decorative portion forming a front face visible from a position spaced from the display face in the optical axis direction; and

an attachment portion fixed to the casing and forming a back face opposite to the front face, and

the decorative member has formed therein a first reflecting face configured to reflect light that is incident through the front face and travels in an inside of the decorative member along the optical axis direction, and thereby to produce reflected light that travels in a direction different from the optical axis direction.

2 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first reflecting face is a surface of the decorative member, the surface being configured to cause the reflected light to travel in a direction away from the casing.

3 . The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the first reflecting face is inclined with respect to the optical axis direction, the face being at least a part of a surface of the decorative member, the surface facing the casing.

4 . The display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the decorative member comprises a groove portion formed by a part of the surface facing the casing, said part of the surface receding away from the casing, and

the first reflecting face is a part of a surface of the groove portion.

5 . The display device according to claim 3 , wherein the decorative member is in contact with the casing at the first reflecting face.

6 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the front face of the decorative portion has an inclined face inclined with respect to the display face in such a manner that light incident along the optical axis direction is refracted at the inclined face in a direction different from the optical axis direction, and is incident on the first reflecting face.

7 . The display device according to claim 6 , wherein at least a part of the light refracted at the inclined face and incident on the first reflecting face is reflected at the first reflecting face in a direction toward the front face.

8 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the decorative member has formed therein a roughened second reflecting face for scattering light incident through the front face, and an edge on the back face side of the second reflecting face is closer to the back face than an edge on the back face side of the first reflecting face.

9 . The display device according to claim 8 , wherein the second reflecting face is formed at such a position as to scatter at least a part of light incident on the front face and reflected at the first reflecting face.

10 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein, in the inside of the decorative member, there is no light path in which light incident on the decorative member along the optical axis direction travels straight only through the inside of the decorative member and is perpendicularly incident on the back face.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ERRONEOUSLY FILED APPLICATION NUMBERS 13/384239, 13/498734, 14/116681 AND 14/301144 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 034194 FRAME 0143. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 24, 2020
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056788/0362 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034194/0143 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 25, 2014
From: YAMASHITA, SHUJI; NAKAO, SUGURU; KANZAWA, HIROMI; TADA, NAOTO; HONDA, KAZUYA
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032286/0876 →