Patent ID: 8023049
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: E05F,E05Y,F16M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A thin-shaped television that is freely turnably supported on a fixed base in horizontal directions by the drive of a motor and equipped with a television main body having a display section on a front face, wherein operating bars on corner portions of the corners of said television main body in a longitudinal direction, the corner portions have holes formed therein; bosses having a collar portion extend from the operating bar into the holes of said corner portions of the television main body; a plate-shaped portion bridging each corner portions on the interior of said television main body, a spring located between each plate-shaped portion and the corresponding collar portion of said boss, forcing the boss toward the operating bar, a sensor for each corner portion is provided for at least one area in vertical directions of said operating bar, in which each sensor includes first and second upper boss contact terminals provided on both sides of said boss, first and second hole portion contact terminals located on both sides of inner wall of said hole portion as to face first and second upper boss contact terminals, a lower boss contact terminal located on a lower portion of said boss, and a plate-shaped portion contact terminal located on said plate-shaped portion so as to face outward toward the hole portion, and a gap between each of said contact terminal sets, in which when said operating bar touches an obstacle in rotating said television main body in horizontal directions, said operating bar activates said sensor and a stopping means causes the drive of said motor turning said television main body to stop.