IP Library Granted Patent US 10,816,851
Granted Patent B2
US 10,816,851 · App. 16/262,039 · Granted Oct 27, 2020

Thin information handling system display light guide plate spacing

Inventors: Jeongki Kim (Singapore, SG); Seen Yee Cindy Cheong (Singapore, SG); Bongjun Lee (Singapore, SG); Kyung Eun Lee (Singapore, SG); Hyunseok Ko (Seochogu, KR)
Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
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Patent No.
US 10,816,851
App. No.
16/262,039
Granted
Oct 27, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information handling system peripheral display provides backlight to a liquid crystal display panel through a light guide plate with illumination from a light emitting diode package having plural evenly spaced light emitting diodes disposed in a spaced relationship along one side of the light guide plate. For insert molded coupling devices, a midframe structure integrates spacers at opposing ends of the bottom side of the light guide plate to maintain the spaced relationship without any additional intervening structures between the light emitting diode package and light guide plate along the bottom side between the opposing ends.

Claims (40)

1. An information handling system peripheral display comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel having plural pixels of liquid crystal, the liquid crystal selectively passing and filtering light from a rear surface to a front surface based upon a crystal state, the plural pixels generating an image;

a controller interfaced with the plural pixels, the controller setting the crystal state of the plural pixels to define the image;

a light guide plate disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel rear surface and operable to distribute light across the liquid crystal display panel;

a light emitting diode (LED) package having plural LEDs in a linear configuration; and

a frame sized to contain the liquid crystal display panel and light guide plate, the frame integrating first and second spacers formed at opposing ends of one side of the light guide plate, the LED package coupled to the frame between the first and second spacers, the first and second spacers engaged against the light guide plate to maintain a predetermined spacing between the LED package and light guide plate.

2. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 1 further comprising:

a reflector plate disposed at a rear surface of the light guide plate to reflect light towards the liquid crystal display panel; and

a diffuser plate disposed between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal display panel to diffuse light provided from the light guide plate across the liquid crystal display.

3. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 1 wherein the LED package comprises plural LEDs disposed in the linear configuration with even spacing between the LEDs along all of the length of the LED package.

4. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 1 wherein the light guide plate is plastic material.

5. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 4 wherein the plastic is poly(methyl methacrylate) (“PMMA”).

6. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 4 wherein the plastic is methylmethacrylate (“MA”).

7. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 1 wherein the first and second spacers are formed at opposing ends of the bottom side of the frame, the light guide plate resting on the first and second spacers.

8. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 7 wherein the first and second spacers are injection molded to integrated with the frame.

9. The information handling system peripheral display of claim 8 wherein the frame between the spacers lacks any structure that engages upward against the light guide plate.

10. A method for presenting visual images at a display, the method comprising:

disposing a light guide plate behind a liquid crystal display panel;

aligning a light emitting diode package along one side of the light guide plate to provide illumination through the light guide plate as a backlight to the liquid crystal display panel; and

coupling the liquid crystal display panel, the light guide plate and the light emitting diode package to a mid-frame structure, the mid-frame structure integrating first and second spacers at opposing sides of the light guide plate, the first and second spacers engaging the light guide plate to maintain a spaced relationship between the light guide plate and light emitting diode package.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

evenly spacing plural light emitting diodes along a length of the light emitting diode package;

wherein each light emitting diode has the spaced relationship from the light guide plate.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising maintaining the spaced relationship between the light emitting diodes and light guide plate with only the first and second spacers located at opposing ends of the light emitting diode package.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the light guide plate is poly(methyl methacrylate) (“PMMA”) plastic.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the light guide plate is methylmethacrylate (“MA”) plastic.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

injection molding the midframe structure to integrate the first and second spacers; and

coupling the light emitting diode package to the midframe structure with a member that supports the light emitting diode package between the opposing sides of the light guide plate.

16. A display comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel;

a backlight structure including at least a light guide plate aligned to provide illumination at a back side of the liquid crystal display panel to present visual images at a front side of the liquid crystal display panel;

a midframe structure configured to accept the backlight structure, the midframe structure integrating first and second spacers at opposing ends of a bottom side of the light guide plate, the light guide resting on the first and second spacers; and

a light emitting diode package disposed along the bottom side of the light guide plate in a spaced relationship defined by the first and second spacers.

17. The display of claim 16 further comprising:

a supporting member disposed under the light emitting diode package to hold the light emitting diode package in the spaced relationship;

wherein the supporting member engages the first and second spacers to define the spaced relationship.

18. The display of claim 17 wherein the light emitting diode package comprises evenly spaced light emitting diodes disposed along the entire length of the bottom side of the light guide plate.

19. The display of claim 18 wherein no physical structure touches the bottom side of the light guide plate between first and second spacers.

20. The display of claim 19 wherein the light guide plate is methyl methacrylate-co-styrene (“MS”).

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053546/0001) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL MARKETING L.P. (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.); DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; DELL MARKETING CORPORATION (SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC. AND WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.); EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 071642/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Oct 1, 2021
From: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
Reel/Frame 057682/0830 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 22, 2020
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Reel/Frame 053546/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 21, 2019
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Reel/Frame 049452/0223 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2019
From: KIM, JEONGKI; CHEONG, SEEN YEE CINDY; LEE, BONGJUN; LEE, KYUNG EUN; KO, HYUNSEOK
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Reel/Frame 048189/0674 →
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