Desktop Type Patents (Class 361/679.22)
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Patent number: 8254101Abstract: A desktop computer includes a monitor defining a number of screw holes in the backside and a chassis defining a number of fixing holes. A number of screws extending through the fixing holes of the chassis and mounts into the corresponding screw holes of the monitor, to mount the monitor to the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zheng-Heng Sun
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Patent number: 8254119Abstract: A computer includes a monitor and a host computer coupled to a monitor. The monitor includes a back cover and a plurality of sides extending forwards form the back cover. The host computer includes a computer enclosure and a plurality electronic element. The computer enclosure includes a bottom board and a plurality of sideboard extending forward from the bottom board to abut against the plurality of sides of the monitor. A receiving space is formed between the back cover of the monitor and the bottom board of the computer enclosure. The number of electronic elements are received in the receiving space and mounted on the bottom board of the computer enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shu-Ni Yi, Lei Liu
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Patent number: 8253878Abstract: An adjustable support apparatus for an LCD monitor is provided. The support apparatus includes a receiving bracket, a cover secured to the receiving bracket, and a sliding member received between the receiving bracket and the cover. The sliding member is capable of sliding relative to the receiving bracket and the cover. A securing member is slidably attached to the cover. An elastic positioning member is secured to the cover. A plurality of positioning grooves is defined in the sliding member, and the securing member biases the positioning members to engage in one of the positioning grooves.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun-Lung Chen, Bang-Chun Ding
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Patent number: 8243429Abstract: A cold worked stainless steel bezel for a portable electronic device is provided. The bezel is secured flush to a housing to form part of the case of the portable electronic device. A brace that includes a slot for receiving a wall extending from the bezel is fixed to the housing. When the bezel engages the housing, the wall of the bezel is inserted in the slot of the brace and releasably held by a spring that engages both the brace and the wall. The bezel can be released by disengaging the spring, (e.g., using a special tool or a magnetic field). Because the bezel is manufactured from cold worked stainless steel, it is hard and resistant to impacts. Cold worked steel also facilitates manufacturing within design constraints and tolerances, and requires very little machining after manufacturing to comply with those constraints. The portable electronic device may include a personal media device, a mobile telephone, or any other suitable device or combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen P. Zadesky, Philip M. Hobson, Tang Yew Tan
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Patent number: 8243426Abstract: One embodiment may take the form of a system for reducing the appearance of optical effects in a display. The system may include an enclosure with a first surface and a second surface. Furthermore, the system may include spacers that may be deposited on the bottom face of the first surface and/or the top face of the second surface, where the first surface may be a touch panel and/or cover lens and the second surface may be a display module. The spacers may be deposited in one layer with an anti-reflection coating. The thickness of the coating may be less than the diameter of the spacers.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cheng Chen, John Z. Zhong, Wei Chen
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Patent number: 8243213Abstract: A monitor apparatus includes a monitor main body and a monitor stand pivotably connected with the monitor main body. A pair of rolling members is attached to a base of the monitor main body. The monitor stand and the rolling members are seated on a same plane for supporting the monitor main body. The monitor main body is capable of rotating about an axis parallel or vertical to the plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun-Lung Chen, Zhong-Hai Zhang
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Patent number: 8238086Abstract: A locking assembly including a first locking part on a first object and a second locking part on a second object is provided. The first locking part includes a head portion. The second locking part has an assembling opening and an assembling space behind the assembling opening. An area of a projection of the assembling space on a plane where the assembling opening is located is greater than and lies over the area of the assembling opening. The head portion of the first locking part is adapted to enter the assembling space through the assembling opening along an assembling direction, and then adapted to reach a locking position in the assembling space by moving along an engaging direction parallel to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Tsung-Yuan Ou
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Patent number: 8218305Abstract: A flat panel display device includes a cabinet, a stand, a flat panel display component, and a universal cord holder. The flat panel display component is selectively connected to one of a non-detachable power supply cord and a detachable power supply cord. The universal cord holder includes a non-detachable power supply cord attachment structure and a detachable power supply cord attachment structure. The non-detachable power supply cord attachment structure of the universal cord holder engages with a first support member of the non-detachable power supply cord when the non-detachable power supply cord is connected to the flat panel display component. The detachable power supply cord attachment structure of the universal cord holder engages with a second support member of the detachable power supply cord when the detachable power supply cord is connected to the flat panel display component.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuhiro Matsutani
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Patent number: 8218303Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a main body portion, a support portion, and a communication portion. The main body portion includes a display portion. The support portion supports the main body portion and forms a space below the main body portion in which information equipment connectable to the main body portion can be accommodated. The communication portion is provided to the support portion and performs communication with a noncontact-type communication medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideaki Kurachi, Masayoshi Koganei
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Patent number: 8199473Abstract: A support stand for a flat-panel display monitor includes a support structure, a rotatable bracket, a first hinge assembly having a first pivot shaft, and a second hinge assembly having a second pivot shaft positioned opposite to the first pivot shaft, and a connecting module. The rotatable bracket is sleeved on the first and second pivot shafts and rotatably connected to the support structure by the first and second hinge assemblies. The connecting module connects the first pivot shaft to the second pivot shaft such that the first and second pivot shafts are substantially aligned along a common axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fan Zhou
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Patent number: 8199472Abstract: An exemplary flat panel display includes a seat, a connection member, and a display module. The seat includes a supporting member having a first engaging portion at a top end thereof, and the first engaging portion includes two pins and two fixing holes. The connection member includes two fixing components. The display module is mounted on the supporting member, and includes a second engaging portion having two positioning slots. The pins of the first engaging portion are received in the second engaging portion, the fixing components are fixed in the fixing holes via the positioning slots, and the positioning slots provide paths for the fixing components when the display module is rotated about the pins.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Rui-Ye Shen, Su-Sheng Mong, Te-Hsu Wang
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Patent number: 8199507Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a printed circuit board, a first heat sink and a second heat sink. The printed circuit board is disposed internal to the housing and supports at least one integrated circuit (IC) chip. The first heat sink is also disposed internal to the housing and is thermally connected to the at least one IC chip. The second heat sink is connected to the housing such that at least a portion thereof is externally disposed to the housing. The second heat sink is thermally connected to the first heat sink via an aperture in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: OpenPeak Inc.Inventors: Yuval Shohet, Teerapat Theerawong
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Patent number: 8172186Abstract: A display support seat is mounted on a display, such that the display is able to be located on a plane after being supported. In the present invention, a main seat and a cover are mounted to form an accommodation space, and the display is mounted on the main seat. Also, the accommodation space is provided for a main board module to be disposed therein, so as to form a computer host. In such a manner, assembly space demands for a computer and a display is effectively reduced. Moreover, a user may select that the present invention merely serves as a support seat, or merely serves as a computer host, or serve as a support seat and a computer host at the same time depending on practical use demands.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Aopen IncorporatedInventors: Wen Hsi Tsai, Te An Lin, Chin Hsiung Chen, Shuang Ji Jiang
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Patent number: 8154569Abstract: A modular display system and method assembles an external interface module with a display module to support built-to-order display configurations. The display module has display panel, timing controller and speaker components assembled in a display module housing that accepts a single LVDS and a single audio interface. The external interface module couples to the display module housing to form an integral display system. Selective assembly of the display system from plural types of external interface modules allows selective configuration of the display system with various television and information handling system display functionalities, such as to fill a purchaser order in a build-to-order manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jeremy M. Ford, Jeffrey Thelen
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Publication number: 20120081854Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: IMERJ LLCInventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Publication number: 20120081314Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: IMERJ LLCInventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Publication number: 20120081313Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: IMERJ LLCInventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Publication number: 20120057290Abstract: An all-in-one computer includes a mainframe shell, a display frame, and a power supply unit (PSU). The PSU includes an outer shell, a power supply module, and a fan module. The power supply module and the fan module are accommodated in the outer shell. The power supply module includes a main body. An axis of the fan module is perpendicular to the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: CHI-KUAN SHEN, LEE-HUI KUO, CHIH-HANG CHAO
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Patent number: 8130488Abstract: A display screen turning apparatus includes a display screen support member provided with a first gear and supporting a display screen portion rotatably in a horizontal plane and rotatably with respect to a vertical plane and a rack plate provided with a second gear meshing with the first gear, wherein the first gear meshed with the second gear moves by movement of the second gear following linear movement of the rack plate in the horizontal plane, thereby rotating the display screen support member in an anteroposterior direction by a prescribed angle with respect to the vertical plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Sawai, Daisuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 8127066Abstract: A modular computer includes a display with a docking station on its back side. A CPU module connects to the docking station. Peripheral modules connect with the resulting display/CPU assembly so that the peripheral modules contact the back side of the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Benjamin Abraham, Yancy Chen
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Patent number: 8120897Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to a television that includes a foldable stand for selective support of the device in a variety of positions and/or viewing orientations. In some cases, a television includes a display having a substantially flat display surface, a housing coupled to the display, and a stand having an elongated support leg, the support leg pivotably coupled to the housing about a pivot axis such that the stand is movable between a first position in which a majority of the stand is located within a perimeter of the display surface projected towards a back surface of the housing and a second position in which the stand is adapted, when placed on a support surface, to support the display in a viewing orientation.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignees: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C., Sling Media, Inc.Inventors: Luke VanDuyn, Daniel L Rudolph, Neil Marten, Dallas Grove
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Patent number: 8118273Abstract: In a display, a housing is formed rotatably in an anteroposterior direction with respect to a base member about a rotation center provided above a bottom of the housing, and a projecting portion and a recess portion are so formed as to substantially block up a horizontal clearance formed between the housing and the base member in an anteroposterior rotational range of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shingo Hamada
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Publication number: 20120026663Abstract: A workstation has a structure including a work top and upright elements supporting the work top, and an electronic display device mounted on the work top. The work top includes a lower board, stably coupled to the upright elements, and an upper board, displaceable with respect to the lower board and subdivided into at least one front board part and one rear board part articulated to each other. The display device is substantially flat and is secured in a laying position substantially parallel to the front board part. The front board part and the rear board part are articulated to each other according to a substantially horizontal axis, such that the upper board is adapted to selectively take on a plurality of different configurations, corresponding to which different positions of use of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: UNIDIDA S.R.L.Inventor: Daniele Costamagna
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Patent number: 8094245Abstract: In a display screen support mechanism, a first hole portion receiving a platelike support shaft is provided in the form of a symmetrical sector formed by connecting two sectoral forward ends which are symmetric with respect to a hole center, and a display screen support member is rotatable about the platelike support shaft serving as a rotating shaft within an angular range of the symmetrical sectoral hole portion in a state where an end of the platelike support shaft in a longitudinal direction comes into contact with an arcuate inner peripheral surface of the symmetrical sectoral hole portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Daisuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 8094442Abstract: A display includes: a display panel including a display surface; a frame including a cover part which partially faces the display surface; and a film whose fixing area is fixed to the cover part and which is arranged between the display surface and the cover part. The cover part includes a flat part and a stepped part which projects toward the display surface, and the film comes in contact with the display surface to be bent.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki Sugawara
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Patent number: 8094244Abstract: A display screen turning apparatus capable of improving assembling workability and suppressing jolting at a time of rotation is obtained. This display screen turning apparatus includes a rotating member mounted with a display screen portion and rotatable in a horizontal plane, a base provided with an upright portion rotatably holding the rotating member and having a first hole, a regulating member so mounted on the upright portion of the base as to prevent the rotating member from moving upward, and a stop member formed in a tapered shape by end surface portions, and holding a state where the regulating member is in contact with the rotating member by inserting the stop member into the first hole of the upright portion of the base and pressing the regulating member.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Sawai, Katsuyuki Yokota
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Patent number: 8085534Abstract: A flat display apparatus includes a display unit; a housing configured to accommodate the display unit; a support member configured to support the housing; and a cooling device configured to radiate heat of a heating element which is mounted in the housing, wherein the cooling device includes a first far infrared ray transfer member which is thermally connected to the heating element in the housing and a second far infrared ray transfer member which is thermally connected to an external portion of the housing at a rear surface side, wherein a radiating surface of the first far infrared ray transfer member and an absorbing surface of the second far infrared ray transfer member are disposed to oppose each other with the housing interposed therebetween, and wherein heat radiated from the first far infrared ray transfer member is radiated at both plane surface of the second far infrared ray transfer member.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Ogiro, Nobuyuki Kaku
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Patent number: 8081434Abstract: A display device is disclosed that can prevent pressing of a substrate and exposure of D-IC to the outside. The display includes a display panel, a driving circuit on one side of a rear surface of the display panel, the driving circuit driving the display panel, and a case receiving the display panel and the driving circuit. The case includes a slit having a predetermined space to expose the driving circuit, and both ends of the slit include a spacer supporting a lower portion of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Myung Woo Jung
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Patent number: 8081428Abstract: A game apparatus includes a vibrating motor, and the vibrating motor is arranged to be fit into a rib provided at approximately the center of a base cover of a lower housing. The rib is made up of an upper member and a lower member different in height, and the vibrating motor is secured to be sandwiched between a side surface of the lower member and a side surface of a rib of a motor cover to be attached to the base cover. Thus, a side surface of the vibrating motor is in intimate contact with the side surface of the lower member and the side surface of the rib of the motor cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazunori Koshiishi
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Patent number: 8081437Abstract: A computer with a projecting device comprises: a base shell, disposed with a top face, the top face being disposed with an opening, the opening communicating an inner part of the base shell; an expansible structure, comprising a first unit, a second unit and a third unit, in which first bottom end of the first unit is pivotally coupled to the base shell through at least one first pivot unit, a second bottom of the second unit is pivotally coupled to the first unit through at least one second pivot unit and the third unit is pivotally coupled to the second unit through a pivot structure; a first face of the third unit is coupled to a projection lens module to allow a height of the projection lens module to be changed and a projection direction thereof to be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yao-Shih Leng
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Patent number: 8081261Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display support apparatus that has a simple structure and can be stored in a small storage space. The display support apparatus includes a main leg 11 that extends downward from a rear face portion of a display, and has a lower end portion provided with an auxiliary leg portion 12 extending forward in a horizontal direction, and a base member 6 that is pivotably coupled to the auxiliary leg portion 12 about a shaft 21. The base member 6 includes a coupling portion 32 that abuts against a bottom face of the auxiliary leg portion 12 in front of the shaft 21, an interlock portion 42 that forms interlocking so that the base member 6 is not pivoted in a state where the coupling portion 32 abuts against the bottom face of the auxiliary leg portion 12.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masao Honda, Takashi Kambe
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Patent number: 8081431Abstract: A height-adjustable stand includes a base defining a receiving space and a sidewall. A height extender is slidably received in the receiving space and includes a front wall and an upper connecting end. The front wall defines a number of slots arranged along a sliding direction of the height extender. The upper connecting end is configured for connecting with a flat panel display device. A positioning member includes a threaded rod and a flange extending outward from the threaded rod. The threaded rod slidably extends through the sidewall of the base and includes a distal end. The distal end is able to be received in one of the slots to set the height extender in a desired position. The flange is external to the receiving space of the base. A locking member includes a nut and two guide rods protruding from the nut.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Gang-Tao Fan
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Patent number: 8077448Abstract: An improved structure of a plasma display apparatus is provided. At least one of an integrated circuit and a driving board is formed over an edge potion of a frame for supporting a plasma display panel. Thus, the plasma display apparatus is manufactured to be thin and light, and also its manufacturing cost decreases.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaeyoung Oh, Jung Gwan Han, Sam Je Cho
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Publication number: 20110292582Abstract: A desktop computer includes a monitor defining a number of screw holes in the backside and a chassis defining a number of fixing holes. A number of screws extending through the fixing holes of the chassis and mounts into the corresponding screw holes of the monitor, to mount the monitor to the chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: ZHENG-HENG SUN
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Patent number: 8059392Abstract: A frame structure is disclosed. The frame structure comprises a first side frame, a second side frame, a top support frame and a base support frame. The second side frame is substantially parallel to the first side frame, and a circuit board is disposed between the first side frame and the second side frame. The top support frame comprises a support plane for connecting to the first side frame and the second side frame. The base support frame is substantially parallel to the top support frame, and the base support frame comprises a compartment, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion. A power supply unit can be disposed in the compartment. The first protrusion connects to the first side frame, and the second protrusion connects to the second side frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Cheng-Hung Hsu, Chun-Hong Kuo, Sheng-Chieh Yang, Chi-Wei Kuo, Guo-Bao Ye
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Patent number: 8059399Abstract: A display device includes a main body and a support assembly. The main body includes a liquid display module, four fixed pieces, and a housing to receive the liquid display module. The housing includes four latching units. The support assembly is to support the main body. Each of the fixed pieces is fixed to the main body and the support assembly to connect the main body with the support assembly. Part of each latching unit is deformable to allow passage thereby of one fixed piece, whereby the fixed pieces are fixed to the main body.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Hsieh-Ting Huang
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Patent number: 8054617Abstract: This invention discloses a desktop computer and a method for manufacturing the same. The desktop computer includes a display device and a main body. The display device has a display side and a back side. One end of the main body is connected to the back side of the display device. The other end of the main body and the display device contact a surface where the desktop computer is disposed. The angle between the main body and the display device is adjustable.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Pegatron CorporationInventors: Yen Kuang, Chi-Sheng Yin, Jeffery Lai, Yen-De Wu, Tsai-Feng Hsiang, Chien-Hung Yeh, Chen-Han Sung, Chun-Kai Chiu
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Patent number: 8047487Abstract: A display apparatus including a display main body displaying a picture, and a base supporting the display main body about an installation surface. The display apparatus further includes a tilting unit provided between the display main body and the base and allowing the display main body to be tilted about the base; a pivoting unit provided between the display main body and the tilting unit and allowing the display main body to be pivoted about the base; a lifting unit provided between the tilting unit and the base and allowing the display main body to move up and down about the base; and a swiveling unit coupled to the base and allowing the display main body to be swiveled about the installation surface. With this configuration, the present invention provides a display apparatus of which a display main body not only rotates about a base in various directions, but also moves up and down about the base.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2005Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwang-sung Hwang, Byung-jo Kang
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Patent number: 8047488Abstract: A support stand includes a supporting leg and a hinge subassembly. The supporting leg includes a connecting portion. The hinge subassembly includes a shaft and a leaf rotatably sleeved on the shaft. The shaft has a connecting portion engaging with the connecting portion of the supporting leg. One of the connecting portions of the supporting leg and the shaft is a connecting slot, and the other one of the connecting portions of the supporting leg and the shaft is a protrusion engaged in the connecting slot, thus fixing the shaft to the supporting leg. A friction is created between the shaft and the leaf.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Xin Wang, Chao-Zhong Fu
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Patent number: 8040669Abstract: An adjustable shifting structure is disclosed. The adjustable shifting structure comprises a base bracket, a movable bracket, a fixture element, and an adjustment element. The movable bracket is movably connected to the base bracket. The fixture element is disposed on the base bracket. The movable bracket is gripped by the fixture element and the base bracket to limit the moving direction of the movable bracket. The adjustment element extends through the base bracket, the movable bracket and the fixture element. The movable bracket may be moved by adjusting the adjustment element to apply force on the fixture element.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventor: Ta-Wei Chen
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Publication number: 20110216495Abstract: A docking system is provided for docking one or more electronic devices. The docking system may include a docking platform, which may be a monitor. The docking platform may have docking receptacles for receiving the electronic devices. The electronic devices may include, for example, handheld or portable consumer electronic devices such as smart phones, gaming modules and laptops. A data exchange in the monitor provides electrical interconnectivity for the electronic devices and any internal or external peripheral devices. The various devices may communicate, and exchange data, with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Inventor: Keith Bernard Marx
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Patent number: 8011624Abstract: A stand attachment structure includes a front cabinet, a rear cabinet and a pair of screws. The front cabinet has a pair of right and left bosses and a holder support. The holder support is formed on an outer peripheral face of each of the bosses at a location spaced from a distal end face of each of the bosses by thickness of a tilting stand holder of a tilting stand. The rear cabinet has a pair of right and left retainers. The retainers are formed at locations opposite the bosses of the front cabinet. Each of the retainers has an end face and a screw insertion hole that is formed on the end face. The screws are disposed through the screw insertion holes of the retainers and threaded into the threaded holes of the bosses to fasten the rear cabinet to the front cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Fujikawa, Shinichiro Sakamoto, Yuki Ogaki, Hideo Yonezawa
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Patent number: 8009413Abstract: An electronic device includes a front cover, a keyboard, and a sliding apparatus. The sliding apparatus is slidably coupled to the front cover. The keyboard is pivotally coupled to the sliding apparatus. By pulling the sliding apparatus and rotating the keyboard, the keyboard is foldable on the front cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nian-Feng Zhen
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Patent number: 8000090Abstract: Described herein is a multi-monitor support structure having a first monitor, a second monitor, a column, an arm coupled to the column for supporting the first monitor and the second monitor, a first coupling unit for coupling the first monitor to the arm, and a second coupling unit for coupling the second monitor to the arm. The first monitor and the second monitor can be separated to create a gap therebetween for accommodating a third monitor, such as from a notebook computer, which is supported by the arm.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Inventor: Jerry Moscovitch
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Publication number: 20110176268Abstract: An all-in-one desktop computer includes a display module, a holding body, a main assembly, and a back cover. The holding body is disposed on one side of the display module. The main assembly is disposed at the holding body. The back cover and the holding body are disposed on the same side of the display module, and the back cover covers the holding body and the main assembly. According to the all-in-one desktop computer, the main assembly is disposed at the holding body to position and fix the main assembly and to strengthen structure stability of the all-in-one desktop computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Yen KUANG, Wei-Chih LAI
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Patent number: 7983029Abstract: A support device for a display unit is provided, in which supports for supporting the display unit are hidden so as to improve the beauty of a room, and a display unit having the same. The support device includes at least one support connected to the display unit; a base connected to the lower part of the support; and a transparent member installed in front of the support, wherein the transparent member includes at least one refractively transmitting portion for refracting light, incident from the front of the transparent member to the support, toward external regions of the support.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jae Hoo Park
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Patent number: 7983028Abstract: A display device includes a display module, a first case and a boss insertion element having a combination hole. The first case covers a first surface of the display module and has a first boss which is inserted into the combination hole to combine the front case to the display module. The first boss is formed at inside edges of the display module.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong-Myeong Park, Jae-Hwan Chun, Jong-Ho Won
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Publication number: 20110170253Abstract: A housing assembly for an imaging assembly comprises a housing body comprising at least one passage for accommodating a respective light socket; and a filter integrated with the housing body through which an image sensor looks.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: SMART Technologies ULCInventors: Ning Liu, Zoran Nesic, Alex Chtchetinine
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Patent number: 7978465Abstract: The function expanding method for a display device comprises: a step of preparing a plurality of types of function expanding modules; a step of selecting a function expanding module or modules from the plurality of types of function expanding modules; and a step of stacking the selected single or plurality of function expanding module(s) to a rear part of the display device at will, and connecting the module(s) by using expanding connector(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Koyo Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Osaka, Yasuhiko Murai, Hiroyuki Kuramoto, Koichi Uchimura
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Patent number: 7974082Abstract: A display apparatus includes a front plate and an elastic member fitted to the front plate along the periphery thereof. The elastic member is pressed against a bezel by a pressing metal part. The elastic member includes a hook-shaped portion and a projecting portion at the end faces thereof. The hook-shaped portion is engaged with an edge portion of the front plate so that the elastic member is prevented from falling off from the front plate. Therefore, it is not necessary to use an adhesive in the assembly process.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tasuku Uchimi