Cabinet Back Patents (Class 348/843)
  • Patent number: 6135609
    Abstract: A visionary replacement (substitute) back panel for a commercially available television cabinet is provided which permits a security inspection of the interior of the television cabinet without the removal of any cabinet walls or the opening of the cabinet members. The substitute back panel conforms to the shape, electrical and structural standards of the O.E.M. (original equipment manufacturer) back panel. optically clear viewing planes are provided. Ultraviolet (U.V.) light filtering may be incorporated. Tamper resistance attachment may be included. An auxiliary light source may also be included which is selectively activated. A method of inspection of the interior of the cabinet is easily conducted from the outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Visual Security Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony M. Giorgianni, Dorothy M. Giorgianni
  • Patent number: 6122019
    Abstract: A monitor is provided that conceals the cable connection parts of the power and the signal cables inside the monitor's housing, which improves the monitor's appearance. The design of the rear housing and its attachments reduces manufacturing defects related to the signal cable caused while attaching the front and rear portions of the housing. Thus, improving production efficiency during the assembly of the monitor. The power and signal cables are connected to the monitor's interfaces in a direction perpendicular to the bottom of the housing. This reduces the space required between the monitor and a wall to avoid damaging the cable connections while rotating the monitor. The monitor also has a box inside the rear housing module which allows users to store a manual and small-sized tools in the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Dae Do, Kwey-Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 6030097
    Abstract: A visionary replacement (substitute) back panel for a commercially available television cabinet is provided which permits a security inspection of the interior of the television cabinet without the removal of any cabinet walls or the opening of the cabinet members. The substitute back panel conforms to the shape, electrical and structural standards of the O.E.M. (original equipment manufacturer) back panel. Optically clear viewing planes are provided. Ultraviolet (U.V.) light filtering may be incorporated. Tamper resistance attachment may be included. An auxiliary light source may also be included which is selectively activated. A method of inspection of the interior of the cabinet is easily conducted from the outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Visual Security Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony M. Giorgianni, Dorothy M. Giorgianni
  • Patent number: 5986722
    Abstract: A cover for covering a recessed portion of the case of a computer monitor. The cover includes a cover strip, a first engaging protrusion and a second engaging protrusion. The first engaging protrusion and the second engaging protrusion can be engaged with a first aperture and a second aperture formed in the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Acer Peripherals, Inc.
    Inventor: Hung-Huan Hsu
  • Patent number: 5969776
    Abstract: A display device is assembled so that access to the main PCB assembly is simplified. The rear housing covers the assembly; and once removed only the top shield has to be removed to expose the top of the main PCB assembly. After the top is removed the stand and bottom bracket can be easily removed, to gain access to the bottom of the main PCB assembly. This display device allows for the testing, repairing, and replacing of individual components of the main PCB without having to remove any of the side PCB assemblies. This allows repairs to be made in less time, at a lower cost, and increases the market competitiveness of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 5963275
    Abstract: A device for fixing a video circuit board of a monitor includes a CRT having a CRT terminals in the neck thereof. A neck cap is attached to the neck and having a guide flange and a pair of fastening snaps. A socket has connection holes into which the CRT terminals are inserted, connection pins soldered to the video circuit board, and a central hole through which the guide flange passes. The video circuit board is soldered to the connection pins of the socket. This has a snap through hole corresponding to the central hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nam-Ill Cho
  • Patent number: 5956101
    Abstract: A support frame has second lugs at a location corresponding to the first lugs provided at corners of a CRT secured by the support frame. The support frame supports the weight of the CRT, and is disposed between the CRT and the rear case of a monitor. Each first lug and each second lug engage a front case by a means of bolt, securing the CRT and the support frame. A guide groove provided at the support frame and a guide portion push the front case outward, maintaining the outer form of the front case during and after assembly, and act as a guide when assembling the support frame and the front cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 5934772
    Abstract: A display device including a front cover connected to a cathode ray tube, a rear body of cover joined to the front cover for covering the cathode ray tube and a top cover connected to a rear upper portion of the rear body of cover. The rear body of cover is joined to the top cover by means of front locking mechanism having hook each formed at both sides of the forepart of the top cover and inserted and the snap into holes formed at both sides of the rear body of cover to be caught in catches. Side locking mechanisms have a pair of tensioned snaps that are formed at both sides of the rear body of cover and pass through a pair of ribs that are provided on the inner sides of the top cover, thus enabling the tensioned snaps to be securely mated with the ribs. Rear locking mechanisms have hooks that are caught on, and snap against rises of locking ribs formed inside of the top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki-Hyub Sung
  • Patent number: 5905546
    Abstract: A detachable and foldable visor is provided for use on a lap-top or portable computer monitor. The visor has a central panel and two side panels adapted to extend across the top and the sides of the monitor. Multiple score lines are provided between the central panel and side panels to facilitate using the visor on monitors of different widths. Mounting tabs are connected to or on the side panels which cooperate with a rubber band or other flexible retainer to exert a tensile force holding the visor onto the monitor. The visor is foldable into a compact and flat position in which it can be easily carried in the same case as the lap-top or portable computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventors: Jean W. Giulie, Joe D. Giulie
  • Patent number: 5806970
    Abstract: A visionary replacement (substitute) back panel for a commercially available television cabinet is provided which permits a security inspection of the interior of the television cabinet without the removal of any cabinet walls or the opening of the cabinet members. The substitute back panel conforms to the shape, electrical and structural standards of the O.E.M. (original equipment manufacturer) back panel. Optically clear viewing planes are provided. Ultraviolet (U.V.) light filtering may be incorporated. Tamper resistance attachment may be included. An auxiliary light source may also be included which is selectively activated. A method of inspection of the interior of the cabinet is easily conducted from the outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Visual Security Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony M. Giorgianni, Dorothy M. Giorgianni
  • Patent number: 5764313
    Abstract: The fastening of a picture tube (1) in a cabinet (2) of a TV set, a bracket (13) and a support (4) of the cabinet is provided with mutually cooperating sawtooth arrangements (6, 21) such that, when the bracket is inserted into the support, the bracket is blocked in a direction opposed to the insertion direction (23). The bracket has a wall portion (16) which forms an abutment for a fastening hook (12) of the picture tube. A compensation of tolerances in picture tube dimensions is obtained by this construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Paul H. M. Schlatmann
  • Patent number: 5699132
    Abstract: A cathode-ray-tube display device has a cathode-ray tube enclosed in a front cabinet and back cabinet. The cathode-ray tube has peripheral lugs with holes. The front cabinet has front bosses with elongate members that extend backward through the holes in the lugs. The back cabinet has back bosses that extend forward and terminate in ends with front cavities, which receive the ends of the elongate members. The front cabinet is fastened to the back cabinet by screws that are driven through holes in the back bosses and into tapped holes in the elongate members. The lugs are held between the front and back bosses, thereby securing the cathode-ray tube to the front and back cabinets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoto Adachi, Christopher James Reith
  • Patent number: 5583582
    Abstract: A mechanical deck guide and a board guide for video in which a video set and a print board for video are provided integrally with a front cabinet, and a board guide for television is disposed in an array with the board guide for video. A shield plate is provided on the mechanical deck guide so as to cover it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Higuchi, Kazuyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 5575545
    Abstract: A monitor shell includes a first frame and a second frame engageable with the first frame. The first frame includes a hollow rectangular panel, two vertical walls, a lower wall and an upper wall. Each of two receiving devices is formed on each vertical wall, and includes two fins and two blades projecting from each fin. Each of two barbs projects from each vertical wall. Two cylinders project from the hollow rectangular panel. Each of two brackets includes a first branch, a second branch projecting from the first branch, a third branch projecting from the second branch and an elastic branch projecting from the first branch. The first branch of each bracket includes a groove defined therein for receiving a board and a hole defined in an end portion thereof. The third branch of each bracket includes a U-shaped slot defined therein thus forming an elastic handle and a barb projecting from the elastic handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Shamrock Technology Company Limited
    Inventor: Tsong L. Wang
  • Patent number: 5523790
    Abstract: A large format video display includes modular construction to permit the repair and exchange of single modules. Each module includes a pair of enantiomorphic side panels, each including top and bottom flanges and a rear flange extending inwardly. At the front end of each rectangular side panel, a plurality of formed bends define an integral rectangular column extending outwardly from the panel. A generally rectangular bottom tray includes a rear floor portion for supporting a video projector unit aimed toward the front of the module. A pair of ears extend outwardly from the front ends of the side panels, and are configured each to be engaged with the integral column of the respective adjacent side panel. The bottom tray is dimensioned to engage the bottom flanges of the side panels, so that the side panels support the weight of the bottom tray and the video processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Inventor: Kevin A. Kalua
  • Patent number: 5499115
    Abstract: A television receiving apparatus having a video tape recorder unit therein with a function for preventing an electric shock, for preventing a user from inserting his fingers into a cabinet when the video tape recorder unit is removed from the cabinet for repair or the like, includes a locking mechanism for locking a controller door panel at a position where it is closed. The controller door panel is used for operating the video tape recorder unit contained in the apparatus. In order to surely obtain security of the user even when the locking operation is forgotten, the apparatus further includes a mechanism for interrupting supply of electric power to a television receiver when the absence of the video tape recorder unit in the cabinet is detected and when the controller door panel is detected to be opened at and more than a predetermined angle. A possibility that the user will receive an electric shock can thus be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Kojima, Takashi Kagawa, Yuichi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5493347
    Abstract: A combined television-video tape recorder in which the VTR is immovably fixed to the bottom of a cabinet by the coupling of its projections and a pair of rails and the VTR's printed circuit board, on which many micro-switches are arranged, is stably fixed to the front face of the cabinet, where console buttons are provided, with screws inserted from the front so that the console buttons can accurately be brought into contact with the micro-switches respectively by a press of a finger tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Funai Electric Company Limited
    Inventor: Yutaka Fukuda
  • Patent number: 5363150
    Abstract: A casing for use in a television set has a U-shaped frame for firmly supporting the cathode ray tube and a chassis arrangement for supporting a circuit arrangement for driving the cathode ray tube. An escutcheon is secured to the frame at a position in front of a screen of the cathode ray tube. A protection cover is connected to the frame for covering the cathode ray tube. Thus, the frame, chassis arrangement, escutcheon and protection cover taken together define an integral unit which is a semi-completed product that can be shipped from a factory. The casing further has a cabinet provided over the protection cover for covering and decorating the appearance the television set, and a back cover for enclosing the integral unit in the cabinet. The cabinet and the back cover can be applied at a local distribution station in accordance with the desire of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunobu Kojima