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US 8,028,831 · App. 12/149,905 · Granted Oct 4, 2011

Package structure for display device

Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,028,831
App. No.
12/149,905
Granted
Oct 4, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A package structure prevents an optical sheet from being brought into contact with a display panel and making scratches on the display panel due to motion caused during transport of a display device, thereby minimizing cost increase. A package structure for a thin display device is the structure for storing the thin display device in a package case. The thin display device includes at least one optical sheet situated in approximately parallel with its display surface, and the package case includes a storage member for holding a thin display device with the optical sheet having a surface inclined relative to a vertical direction.

Claims (16)

1. A package structure configured to store a display device in a package case,

said display device including at least one optical sheet situated in approximately parallel with a display surface, and

said package case including a storage member, said storage member having a lower case and an upper case which form an enclosure around said storage member and that holds said display device with said optical sheet having a surface inclined relative to a vertical direction of said storage member

said storage member including a top plate, a first side plate and a second side plate, said first and second side plates including buffers which abut the display device on two sides and holds the display device at an angle less than 90 degrees relative to the lower case, the top plate abutting the first and second side plates at one end.

2. A package structure configured to store a display device in a package case,

said display device including at least one optical sheet situated in approximately parallel with a display surface, and

said package case including a storage member that holds said display device with said optical sheet having a surface inclined relative to a vertical direction,

wherein said display device has, on a ground side, a leg extending back and forth at approximately a right angle to the surface of said optical sheet, and

said storage member includes:

an installation member abutting an underside of a fore or back part of said leg; and

an anti-falling member spaced from the underside of a non-abutting part of said leg and preventing said display device from falling down at a time of opening of said package case.

3. The package structure according to claim 1 , wherein said display device further includes:

a plurality of light sources situated in parallel with said optical sheet and at regular intervals behind a back side of said optical sheet;

a plurality of retaining members of a same size that hold said plurality of light sources;

a diffuser plate situated in parallel with said optical sheet and diffusing illumination emitted from said plurality of light sources; and

a plurality of supports of a same size that abut and support said diffuser plate.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 9, 2008
From: KAKUTA, YOSHINORI; TAKEUCHI, SHIGERU; TAGUCHI, HIROKAZU; KANNO, NAOKI; NISHIKAWA, KIMITO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 020971/0418 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-236109 · Sep 12, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090065385A1 · Mar 12, 2009