MXPA96002869A - Sheet of the board and television receiver using the tabl sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a television receiver having an integrated design without deteriorating the external appearance. A sheet (4) of the board wherein an operating unit (6) corresponding to the operating unit placed in the cabinet, a filter unit (7) corresponding to the light detecting unit, and a unit (8) Sound output that corresponds to the sound output unit that is formed in an integrated way, the television receiver cabinet is fixed

Description

"SHEET OF THE BOARD AND TELEVISION RECEIVER USING THE SHEET OF THE BOARD" FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a dashboard sheet and a television receiver that uses the dashboard sheet and, more particularly, is appropriately applied to the dashboard sheet fixed to a television receiver cabinet.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A television receiver has an active system, such as a power source on / off switch, a volume control switch and a channel selector switch, a remote control light receiving unit for receiving commands sent from a remote controller and a sound output unit in addition to a visual image output unit to send the visual image. The active system, the remote control light receiving unit and the sound receiver unit of the television receiver are placed, for example, in the cabinet part of the television receiver.

So far, it is desirable that the active system, the remote control unit and the sound output unit placed in the cabinet of the television receiver are designed integrally without spoiling the external appearance of the television receiver SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of this invention is to provide a television receiver that is designed in an integral manner. In accordance with this invention, the television receiver has an active system, an infrared transmissive filter unit and a dashboard sheet wherein a sound output unit having a number of small holes for sending sounds, are formed of full way The nature, principle and utility of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when read together with the accompanying drawings in which like parts are designated by like numbers or reference characters.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a front diagram showing a television receiver in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention; Figure 2 is a diagram showing the general construction of the board sheet in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention; Figure 3 is an amplified diagram showing the active system shown in a circle of sheet A of the board in Figure 2; Figure 4 is an amplified diagram showing the sound output unit shown in a circle of sheet B of the board in Figure 2; and Figures 5A to 5C, are diagrams showing the typical construction of a board sheet.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE MODALITY Preferred embodiments of this invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front diagram showing a television receiver in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In this Figure, in a television receiver 1, as well as the visual image output unit 2 is formed in an integrated manner with the front cabinet 3 (referred to below as the cabinet), a sheet 4 of the board is fixed on the right side face of the cabinet 3 and a sheet 5 of the board is fixed to the left side face, for example. Also, an operation switch, a light emitting and receiving device and a sound output device is provided in the part of the cabinet 3, where the sheet 4 of the board (not shown) and the output device are fixed. of sound is provided in the part of the cabinet 3 where the sheet 5 of the board is fixed (not shown). Figure 2 shows the general constraint of the sheet 4 of the board fixed to the right side face of the television receiver 1. Sheet 4 of the board shown in this Figure is formed such as, for example, vinyl chloride and the entire sheet has almost the same color as cabinet 3 of television receiver 1 (e.g., black) and also an active system 6, the filter unit 7 and the sound output unit 8 are also provided. In the active system 6 of this sheet 4 of the board, signals are provided which show a display unit 11 of the power supply on / off switch, a standby display unit 12 for displaying the standby condition of the source of power, a channel switching switch display unit 13 for selecting the channels, a volume control switch display unit 14 for controlling the sound volume, a TV / video shift switch display unit 15 and a switch display unit 16 installed. The power supply on / off switch, the channel switching switch, the sound volume control switch, the TV / video scrolling device and the installed switch are provided in cabinet 3 equipped with this sheet 4 of the board to correspond to the active system 6. In the filter unit 7, the transmission holes that are converted in the filter 17 of the remote control light receiving unit to receive commands to be sent from the remote controller, the filter 18, of the infrared emitting unit for sending the infrared beam to be described later and the infrared receiving measurement filter 19 for receiving the reflection light of the infrared beam sent from the infrared emitting unit are provided of course and each transmission hole of these filter units is colored in a purple color in order to transmit, for example, lightning infrared.

In this way, by providing the filter unit 7 on the sheet 4 of the board, the infrared beam emitting device and the receiving device can be provided without installing a light guide tube on the reverse side of this sheet 4 of the board. In addition, in the sound output unit 8, a number of small holes are formed which will be described later and an opening unit 20 is also formed, as shown by the chain line which will be described later. This opening unit 20 is formed in the position corresponding to the sound output device that is provided, for example, in the cabinet 3 but not shown in the figure. The following detailed description refers to the construction of sheet 4 of the board. Figure 3 shows an active system 6 amplified which is shown in a circle A of sheet 4 of the board in Figure 2. As shown in this figure, the display unit 11 of the on / off switch placed in the active system 6 of sheet 4 of the board comprises a portion of character, wherein the word "ENERGY" is written and a part 11b of the frame enclosing the part of the character, and this part of the character is displayed as in green and part 11b of the frame is displayed as in gray. In addition, the waiting display unit 12 in which the words "WAIT" are written is displayed, for example, in a semitransparent white color or a gray color. Also, the display device 13 of the channel switch unit is formed by the part 13b where the word "CHANNEL" is written and the display parts 13a and 13c of channel operation 13a and 13c comprise the "+" displays , "-" and the frames, and these are displayed in a semitransparent white color or a gray color similar to that of the previous one. The volume control switch display unit 14, the display device 15 of the TV / video shift switch and the installed switch display unit 16 which is not shown in Figure 3, are also displayed in a white color. semitransparent or gray. Therefore, if the backlight, for example, by a light-emitting diode would be placed in the position corresponding to the active system 6 and the cabinet 3 be removed with the sheet 4 of the board and illuminated, the characters and frames of this display unit 12, the channel switch display unit 13 having a semitransparent or gray white color would be displayed, illuminating. Furthermore, since there are cases where the display devices of the active system 6 become something that offends the viewer's view when the user is looking at the visual image displayed on the monitor, in the case where the active system 6 is not has operated during the fixed period of time, the backlight is turned off making the displays of the active system 6 invisible from the observer in this way due to the semi-transparent or gray white color. Unit 11 of the switch on / off switch of the power source is constantly displayed. However, in the case where the user tries to change channels using the active system 6 installed in the apparatus itself, it causes a problem that the user can not operate the apparatus if the back light of the active system 6 is turned off and the Active system 6 can not be seen. To solve this problem, as the transmission holes of the filter 18 of the infrared beam emitting unit and the filter 19 of the infrared ray receiving unit is provided in the filter unit 7 in the sheet 4 of the board in addition to the transmission hole of the filter 17 of the remote control light receiving unit and an infrared beam emitting unit is provided in the position corresponding to the filter 18 and an infrared ray receiving unit is provided in the position corresponding to the filter 19. More specific, thereby providing the infrared ray emitting unit and the infrared ray receiving unit when the user comes closer to the television set to operate the active system 6, the infrared beam to be emitted from the infrared ray emitting unit. through the filter 18 it is reflected by the user and the infrared ray signal is received in the infrared ray receiving unit through the filter 19, and when the user gets closer to the apparatus itself, the back light is illuminated and presented the active system 6 in operation. Then, Figure 4 is an amplified diagram of the sound output unit 8 shown by B on sheet 4 of the board in Figure 2. As shown in this figure, a number of small holes each small hole 21 having 0.3 ^, are placed with the vertical inclination of 0.5 millimeter and the horizontal inclination, for example, 0.3 millimeter. Further, in this sound output unit 8, an opening 20 is provided in the position corresponding to the sound output device as shown in Figure 2 and only the part of this opening 20 is penetrated by the small holes 21. More specifically, even when the small holes 21 are provided throughout the part of the sound output unit 8 of the sheet 4 of the board, only that part of the opening unit 20 corresponding to the sound output device is penetrated from the inside to the outside by means of the small holes 21 in sheet 4 of the board. With this arrangement, the active system 6, the filter unit 7 and the sound output unit 8 are provided on a sheet 4 of the board and the sheet 4 of the board is fixed to the cabinet 3 of the television receiver and can thus be obtain a television set having an integrated design. Also, small holes 21 are not provided in the part corresponding to the active system 6 and the filter unit 7 of the sheet 4 of the board and small holes 21 are provided in the part of the sound output unit 8. Therefore, the intensity of the active system 6 and the filter 7 can be maintained and the sheet 4 of the board can be protected from dust, static electricity and water introduction. At this point, a method of manufacturing this sheet 4 of the board will be briefly described with reference to Figures 5A to 5C in the following manner: Figure 5A shows a typical manufacturing method of sheet 4 of the board. As shown in this figure, on sheet 4 of the board applying the indicated masking processing, a black vinyl chloride layer 32 is formed above the transparent vinyl chloride layer 31. In addition, by applying the indicated masking process, a layer 33 of purple vinyl chloride is formed above the black vinyl chloride layer 32 and by repeating this processing, a layer 34 of semitransparent vinyl chloride is formed, a layer of 35 green color vinyl chloride and a 36 layer of gray colored vinyl chloride. More specifically, the black vinyl chloride layer 32 is not formed on the part corresponding to the character of the power source on / off switch unit 11 by the masking process as shown in the Figure 5B and a layer 35 of green vinyl chloride is formed by the part where the black vinyl chloride layer 32 is not formed. In addition, the same is applied to the case to form the standby display unit 12 which is semi-transparent and not forming the black color vinyl chloride layer 32 by masking, which part forms the semitransparent vinyl chloride layer 36. On the other hand, the part corresponding to the sound unit 8 of sheet 4 of the board is formed by a layer 31 of transparent vinyl chloride and layer 32 of black vinyl chloride as seen in Figure 5B, and at this stage, a number of the small holes described above are formed. In addition, this black adhesive layer 37 and the exfoliation layer 38 is placed above this layer of vinyl chloride as shown in Figure 5C. At this point, if an opening 20 is provided in the part corresponding to the sound output device in the adhesive layer 37, the part of the sheet 4 of the board which is the unit 20 of openings is penetrated by the small holes 21 and the part that is not the opening unit 21 is closed by the adhesive layer 37. The method described above has dealt with the case of providing a number of small holes 21 above the entire sound output unit 8 of sheet 4 of the board. However, the present invention is not only limited to this, but small holes 21 can also be provided only in the opening unit 20 corresponding to the sound output device, for example. In addition, as well as the operation display, the switches such as the power supply on / off switch, the channel switching switch, the sound volume control switch, the TV / video shift switch and the installed switch can be provided integrally in the active system of the sheet 4 of the board. According to the television receiver of the present invention, as described above, the active system, the filter unit and the sound output unit are provided in the sheet of the board and the board sheet is installed in the front of the cabinet, so that a television receiver with an integrated design can be obtained. Furthermore, since no small holes are provided in the parts corresponding to the active system and the filter unit of the panel sheet, the electrical apparatus installed inside the panel sheet can be protected from dust, static electricity and humidity. Also, since the infrared ray detecting device can be provided within the dashboard sheet, the light guide tube that was previously necessary, can be removed of course. Although it has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments of the invention it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various changes and modifications to cover the appended claims will be all those changes and modifications that fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention. the invention.

Claims (2)

R E I V I N D I C L I O N E S:

1. A dashboard sheet comprising: an active system; an infrared ray transmitting filter unit; and a sound output unit having small holes for emitting sounds, wherein the active system, the infrared ray transmitter filter unit and the sound output unit are formed in the sheet of the integrated board.

2. A television receiver comprising: a cabinet; and a sheet of the board having an active system corresponding to the active system of a cabinet, an infrared ray transmitting filter unit corresponding to the light detecting unit, and a sound output unit formed of a number of small holes that correspond to the exit, where the sheet of the board is fixed in a position of the cabinet.