US 6,982,698 B2
LCD dustproof structure of electronic equipment and electronic apparatus having the structure
Masahito Shimizu, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to NEC Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 03, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/979,219.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-430574 (JP), filed on Dec. 25, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0141186 A1, Jun. 30, 2005
Int. Cl. G09G 5/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 345—156 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An LCD dustproof structure of an electronic apparatus including a first case having a display face and an LCD and a second case engaged with the first case to form a housing, wherein
an LCD frame that carries the LCD, a printed wiring board having an electronic component and a wiring for controlling the LCD, and an LCD flexible board for connecting the LCD with the printed wiring board is fixed to the first case,
the LCD flexible board has a board protruding portion extending in the width direction at predetermined positions of the both sides in the width direction,
the LCD frame has, in the face opposite to the first case, a fixing portion for fixing the LCD, a dustproof cushion striking face formed on three faces surrounding the fixing portion, and an LCD flexible board catching face formed at a portion corresponding to the protruding portion of the LCD flexible board to support the bottom of the protruding portion so that the upside of the protruding portion continues with the dustproof cushion striking face, and
the first case has a dustproof cushion set so as to contact with the face on the LCD frame formed by the dustproof cushion striking face, upside of the protruding portion, and upside of the LCD flexible board.