JP5400000B2 - Cover for display device, display device with cover, and label printer - Google Patents

Description

Embodiments described herein relate generally to a display device cover , a display device with a cover , and a label printer .

  Conventionally, there is a display device with a touch panel in which a touch panel is arranged on a display surface.

  In a display device with a touch panel, it is desired to suppress adhesion of foreign matters such as dust and oil.

The cover for a display device according to the embodiment has a deployable box-shaped main body that houses a display device with a touch panel in which a touch panel is arranged on a display surface, the main body has transparency, Connecting the front wall, the back wall, the upper edge of the front wall, and the upper edge of the back wall that are stacked on the touch panel to enable operation on the touch panel from outside; An upper wall portion swingable with respect to the front wall portion and the back wall portion; and a pair of side wall portions connecting a side edge portion of the front wall portion and a side edge portion of the back wall portion; The side wall portion is connected to a side edge portion of the front wall portion and is swingable with respect to the front wall portion; and a side edge portion of the back wall portion having a suction surface And a second seat portion that is swingable relative to the back wall portion, and the suction surface is stacked on the first seat portion. Has been adsorbed on the first sheet portion, said a first sheet portion and the second sheet portion, separated from the upper wall portion. The front wall portion is formed by an adsorption sheet having an adsorption surface that sticks to an object by adsorption, the adsorption surface of the adsorption sheet constitutes an inner surface of the main body, the back wall portion, the upper wall portion, and the The front wall portion is fixed to the touch panel by the suction force of the suction surface of the suction sheet in a state where the pair of side wall portions are separated from the display device with a touch panel.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a label printer according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the display device with a cover according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the display device with a cover according to the first embodiment. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line IV-IV in FIG. FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a display device with a cover according to the second embodiment. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the display device with a cover according to the second embodiment, and shows a state in which the display device cover is unfolded. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an unfolded state of the main body of the display device cover according to the second embodiment, and is a diagram showing an inner surface of the main body.

  Hereinafter, a label printer according to an embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

(First embodiment)
First, a first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the label printer 1 includes a printer main body 10 that prints and issues a label 2 and a display device 11 with a cover that is disposed above the printer main body 10. A keyboard 12 is provided on the upper surface of the printer body 10. In addition, a weighing scale 13 for placing a product and measuring the weight of the product is connected to the lower front portion of the printer body 10. In this label printer 1, the printer main body 10 prints information related to the product on the label 2 and issues the label 2 after printing. The display device with cover 11 displays information to be printed on the label 2 and the like.

  Next, the display device 11 with a cover will be described in detail. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the display device 11 with a cover includes a display device 20 with a touch panel and a display device cover 21 in which the display device 20 with a touch panel is accommodated. The display device with cover 11 is connected to the upper part of the printer main body 10 by a connecting mechanism (not shown).

  The display device 20 with a touch panel includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped display device 22 and a touch panel 23 disposed on the display surface 22 a of the display device 22. The display device 20 with a touch panel is connected to the printer main body 10 via an electric wire (not shown) extending from the lower part.

  The display device 22 is, for example, a liquid crystal display device. The display device 22 includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped housing 22b and a display surface 22a exposed from the housing 22b. An opening 22d is formed in the front wall portion 22c of the housing 22b, and the display surface 22a is exposed from the opening 22d. Various adjustment buttons (not shown) for adjusting the display brightness and the like of the display device 22 are provided on the back surface 22e (FIG. 4) of the display device 22 which is the back surface of the display device 20 with a touch panel. .

  The touch panel 23 is pressure-sensitive in this embodiment. The touch panel 23 is operated (pressed) by an operator's finger or the like on the operation surface 23a. A protective sheet 24 having transparency is laminated on the operation surface 23a. The protective sheet 24 is attached to the operation surface 23a of the touch panel 23 by adsorption or adhesion. The protective sheet 24 is included in the display device 20 with a touch panel.

  The display device cover 21 includes a main body 21a in which the display device 20 with a touch panel is accommodated. The main body 21a is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped box shape, and an insertion / removal port 21c is provided on the lower surface 21i thereof. Specifically, the main body 21a includes a front wall portion 21d as a touch panel protective wall portion, a back wall portion 21e, an upper wall portion 21f, and a pair of left and right side wall portions 21g. The back wall portion 21e is disposed to face the front wall portion 21d with a space from the front wall portion 21d. The upper edge portion of the back wall portion 21e is connected to the upper edge portion of the front wall portion 21d by the upper wall portion 21f, and the left and right side edge portions of the back wall portion 21e are front wall portions by a pair of left and right side wall portions 21g. It is connected to the left and right side edges of 21d. The insertion / removal port 21c is an opening through which the display device 20 with a touch panel is inserted / removed. Moreover, the electric wire which connected the display apparatus 20 with a touch panel and the printer main body 10 is inserted in this insertion / extraction opening 21c.

  The front wall portion 21d has transparency and elasticity, and is laminated on the touch panel 23 so that the touch panel 23 can be operated from the outside of the main body 21a. The front wall portion 21d is laminated on the display surface 22a via the protective sheet 24. Since the front wall portion 21d has transparency, the user can see the image displayed on the display surface 22a. The front wall portion 21d is formed of a colorless and transparent suction sheet. The suction sheet is a sheet (self-adsorption sheet) having a suction surface 21h (FIG. 4) that sticks to an object by suction. The suction sheet can be repeatedly attached to and peeled off from the object. In the front wall portion 21d, the suction surface 21h constitutes the inner surface of the main body 21a. Such a front wall portion 21d is stuck to the protective sheet 24 by suction. In addition, the lamination | stacking of the front wall part 21d with respect to the touchscreen 23 is not restricted to the lamination | stacking via the protective sheet 24, The front wall part 21d is directly laminated | stacked on the touchscreen 23, without passing through the protective sheet 24, Also good.

  The back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21g of the main body 21a are formed of permeable PET (polyethylene terephthalate). Each of these wall portions (the back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21g) may be an integrally molded product or may be a separate part. In the case of separate parts, after each wall part is manufactured, each wall part may be joined and assembled together by bonding or welding. The front wall portion 21d is joined to each of these wall portions (the back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21g) by adhesion, welding, or the like.

  In order to attach the display device cover 21 configured as described above to the display device 20 with a touch panel, the user covers the display device cover 21 on the touch panel display device 20 and attaches the front wall portion 21d to the protective sheet 24. As a result, the display device 20 with the touch panel is accommodated in the display device cover 21. At this time, in this embodiment, the back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21g are separated from the display device 20 with a touch panel. That is, in this embodiment, the display device cover 21 is fixed to the display device 20 with the touch panel by the adsorption force of the front wall portion 21d. In the state where the display device 20 with a touch panel is housed in the display device cover 21, any or all of the back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21g are included in the display device with a touch panel. You may make it contact | abut.

  As described above, the display device cover 21 according to the present embodiment includes the main body 21a that houses the display device 20 with a touch panel, and the front wall portion 21d as a touch panel protective wall portion that has transparency and forms the main body. The front wall 21d is stacked on the touch panel 23 so that the touch panel 23 can be operated from the outside of the main body 21a. Therefore, according to the display device cover 21 of the present embodiment, it is possible to prevent foreign matter such as dust and oil from adhering to the display device with a touch panel 20 in a state where the operation on the touch panel 23 is possible. Here, an example of a place where the oil content is present at the installation place of the label printer 1 is a food processing place.

  Moreover, in this embodiment, since the insertion / removal port 21c in which the display apparatus 20 with a touch panel is inserted / removed is formed in the lower surface 21i of the main body 21a, the user can attach the display device cover 21 to the display apparatus 20 with a touch panel. The attachment / detachment can be easily performed through the insertion / removal port 21c. As described above, since the display device cover 21 can be easily attached to and detached from the display device 20 with a touch panel, the user can easily access various adjustment buttons included in the display device with a touch panel 20 to perform adjustment work.

  Moreover, in this embodiment, since the front wall part 21d as a touch panel protective wall part is formed of the suction sheet, the user can easily attach and peel the front wall part 21d to the display device 20 with a touch panel. Can do.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In addition, the same code | symbol is provided to the element similar to 1st Embodiment, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.

  Although the present embodiment is basically the same as the first embodiment, the display device cover 21A is different from the display device cover 21 of the first embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the main body 21aA of the display device cover 21A of the present embodiment has the same basic shape as the display device cover 21 of the first embodiment, but as shown in FIGS. Moreover, the point which is formed in the box shape which can be expand | deployed differs from the cover 21 for display apparatuses of 1st Embodiment.

  The pair of left and right side wall portions 21gA of the main body 21aA includes a first seat portion 21j connected to the side edge portion of the front wall portion 21d, and a second seat portion 21k connected to the side edge portion of the back wall portion 21e, respectively. It is equipped with. The second sheet portion 21k is laminated on the first sheet portion 21j with the inner surface of the second sheet portion 21k overlapping the outer surface of the first sheet portion 21j. The second sheet portion 21k is formed of a suction sheet, and the suction surface 21m constitutes the inner surface of the second sheet portion 21k. And the 2nd sheet | seat part 21k is adsorb | sucking and sticking to the 1st sheet | seat part 21j by the adsorption | suction surface 21m. The first sheet portion 21j and the second sheet portion 21k are separated from the upper wall portion 21f. In addition, the joining means of the 1st sheet | seat part 21j and the 2nd sheet | seat part 21k is not restricted to an adsorption sheet, For example, a hook-and-loop fastener etc. may be sufficient.

  A joint portion between the wall portions (the front wall portion 21d, the back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21gA) in the main body 21aA is a hinge portion 21n that connects the wall portions so as to be swingable. ing. Accordingly, the upper wall portion 21f and the pair of first seat portions 21j can swing with respect to the front wall portion 21d, and the back wall portion 21e can swing with respect to the upper wall portion 21f. A pair of second sheet portions 21k can swing with respect to 21e. Thereby, the main body 21aA can be expanded and assembled. As described above, the main body 21aA has a structure in which each of the wall portions (the front wall portion 21d, the back wall portion 21e, the upper wall portion 21f, and the pair of left and right side wall portions 21gA) can be developed. Alternatively, a structure (a structure having the unfolded state shown in FIG. 6) in which only a part thereof, for example, the back wall portion 21e and the second seat portion 21j can be unfolded may be used.

  When attaching the display device cover 21A having the above configuration to the display device 20 with a touch panel, the user attaches the front wall portion 21d to the front surface (protective sheet 24) of the display device 20 with a touch panel with the main body 21aA in an unfolded state. Can. Thereafter, the user can attach the display device cover 21A to the display device 20 with the touch panel by bending (swinging) each wall portion and assembling the main body 21aA.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, since the main body 21aA of the display device cover 21A is formed in a deployable box shape, the front wall portion 21d can be relatively easily attached to the front surface of the display device 20 with a touch panel. It can be attached to (protective sheet 24).

  In each of the above-described embodiments, the stationary display device is described as an example of a stationary display device. However, the display device with a touch panel is not limited to this, and the display device with a touch panel is provided as a display device with a touch panel. It may be.

  As described above, according to the first and second embodiments, it is possible to prevent foreign matters such as dust and oil from adhering to the display device with a touch panel.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Label printer 11 ... Display apparatus with a cover 20 ... Display apparatus with a touch panel 21, 21A ... Cover for display apparatus 21a, 21aA ... Main body 21c ... Insertion / extraction port 21d ... Front wall part (touch panel protective wall part)
21e ... back wall
21f ... Upper wall
21 gA ... side wall 21h ... adsorption surface 21i ... bottom surface
21j ... 1st sheet part
21k ... 2nd sheet part
21m ... Suction surface 22a ... Display surface 23 ... Touch panel 24 ... Protective sheet

JP-A-2005-242423

Claims (5)

A display device with a touch panel in which a touch panel is disposed on the display surface, and has an expandable box-shaped main body that houses the display device.
The body is
A front wall portion that has transparency and is laminated to the touch panel to enable operation on the touch panel from the outside of the main body;
The back wall,
An upper wall portion connecting the upper edge portion of the front wall portion and the upper edge portion of the back wall portion, and swingable with respect to the front wall portion and the back wall portion;
A pair of side walls connecting the side edge of the front wall and the side edge of the back wall;
Have
The side wall portion is
A first sheet portion connected to a side edge portion of the front wall portion and swingable with respect to the front wall portion;
A second seat part having an adsorption surface and connected to a side edge of the back wall part and swingable with respect to the back wall part;
Have
The adsorption surface is stacked on the first sheet portion and adsorbs to the first sheet portion,
The first sheet portion and the second sheet portion are separated from the upper wall portion ,
The front wall portion is formed by an adsorption sheet having an adsorption surface that sticks to an object by adsorption, and the adsorption surface of the adsorption sheet constitutes an inner surface of the main body,
The front wall is fixed to the touch panel by the suction force of the suction surface of the suction sheet in a state where the back wall, the upper wall, and the pair of side walls are separated from the display device with a touch panel. display device for a cover to be. The cover for a display device according to claim 1, wherein the main body is provided with an insertion / removal opening on a lower surface of the display device with the touch panel. The said front wall part is a cover for display apparatuses of Claim 1 or 2 laminated | stacked on the said touch panel through a protective sheet. A display device with a touch panel in which a touch panel is arranged on the display surface;
The display device cover according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the display device with a touch panel is housed.
A display device with a cover. A label printer comprising the display device with a cover according to claim 4 .

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