Sony Corporation

Hiroyoshi Maeda

Hitoshi Takahashi

Takuya Niitsu

Hiroyuki Ono

Tatsuya Sakata

Kenichi Katayama

Keiichi Takagi

Masamoto Noguchi

Eiji Amaya

Takeshi Yamamoto

Masayasu Watanabe

Hideaki Yokka

A flat image display device that has a bracket and a frame section integrally formed by a transparent material, an apparatus mounting section is disposed in an inner peripheral edge of the frame section, and parts fixing sections that are disposed on the outside of the frame section. A front panel is formed by a transparent material and disposed on the front surface side of the bracket; an apparatus body section has a screen surface that is mounted at the apparatus mounting section of the bracket. One or more signal paths send and receive electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections. This enables sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections that send and receive electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function.

Flat type image display apparatus

A stand on which a flat panel display main body is placed has low-pitched sound speakers built therein and a speaker of the flat panel display main body and the low-pitched sound speakers of the stand are combined together to construct a powerful sound system with large sound volume. The low-pitched sound speakers are located at the back side of the flat panel display main body when the flat panel display main body is placed on the stand. In a flat panel display apparatus composed of the flat panel display main body having the speaker built therein and the stand supporting this flat panel display main body thereon, it is possible to easily realize a powerful sound system using the low-pitched sound speakers (woofers) without requiring any extra space.

Flat panel display apparatus, stand and speaker apparatus

The present invention provides a symbol illumination apparatus configured to have a symbol such as characters printed on a front surface of a transparent member, and to allow light from a plurality of light sources to pass through an interior of the transparent member from one side of the transparent member, to illuminate the symbol. A lens sheet and a diffused sheet are inserted between the transparent member and the plurality of light sources in the symbol illumination apparatus. This configuration prevents a plurality of light rays from being seen on the bottom of the transparent member.

Symbol illumination apparatus and video display apparatus

There are provided a bracketthat has a frame sectionintegrally formed by a transparent material, an apparatus mounting sectiondisposed in an inner peripheral edge of the frame section, and parts fixing sections, . . . disposed on the outside of the frame section; a front panelthat is formed by a transparent material and disposed on the front surface side of the bracket; an apparatus body sectionthat has a screen surfaceand is mounted at the apparatus mounting section of the bracket; holding membersthat hold the front panel and the bracket in the state that they are connected together at the front and rear; and functional sections that are fixed to the parts fixing sections of the bracket so as to be disposed on the outside of the front panel, and that sends and receives electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function. Signal pathsto perform sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections are formed in the inside of the bracket or in a boundary portion between the front panel and the bracket. This enables sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections that send and receive electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function, while maintaining good design quality.

Flat type image display device

A bezel which minimizes possible production of powder by rubbing thereof with a cathode ray tube to prevent possible deterioration of an appearance of a display unit in which the bezel and the cathode ray tube are assembled. The bezel has, around a substantially rectangular opening thereof, a contact area at which it is to contact with a cathode ray tube to which the bezel is to be assembled. The contact area is provided by a plurality of ribs formed in a suitably spaced relationship from each other on the bezel along an inner periphery of the opening in such a manner as to extend perpendicularly to the inner periphery of the opening. Some of the ribs which are provided along a pair or two pairs of opposing edges of the inner periphery of the opening may be replaced by different ribs which individually extend in parallel to the edges of the inner periphery of the opening.

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Saitama, Japan

Hiroyoshi Maeda