Patent ID: 6014185
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising a cabinet, a television picture tube housed within the cabinet and having a viewing surface within an opening in the cabinet, a circuit board within the cabinet and located beneath the television picture tube, and a structure for draining waterdrops from the television picture tube as housed in the cabinet, the structure comprising a protective wall formed on an inner surface of the cabinet beneath the viewing surface for preventing waterdrops adhering to the viewing surface of the picture tube from flowing onto the circuit board, the structure further including, in a clearance M above the protective wall and formed between the cabinet and the viewing surface of the picture tube, a plurality of projections extending toward, or obliquely toward, the circuit board, for causing waterdrops flowing from the viewing surface of the tube through the clearance to flow along an interior surface of the cabinet located beneath the clearance.