Patent ID: 9214101
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06F,G09F

Abstract:
1. A graphic display device for illuminating interchangeable graphic panels, the graphic display device comprising: a housing assembly, the housing assembly comprising a housing top, a housing bottom, laterally opposed housing sides, a housing back, and a housing front, the housing back comprising an assembly-receiving cavity and a lens-receiving volume in anterior adjacency to the assembly-receiving cavity, the housing back comprising lens-guiding ribs and integrally formed, laterally opposed, posteriorly-extending retainer-engaging projections, the lens-guiding ribs providing boundaries to the assembly-receiving cavity and lens-receiving volume; a light guide assembly, the light guide assembly comprising a light source and a light guide panel, the light guide assembly being received in the assembly-receiving cavity, the light guide panel being positioned in edge adjacency to the light source for guiding light from the light source in an anterior direction orthogonal to a light guide plane of the light guide panel; and laterally opposed device-to-surface retainer structures for fastening the graphic display device to a mounting surface, the device-to-surface retainer structures each comprising an edge-receiving void, the edge-receiving voids for binding to laterally opposed portions of the housing assembly, the posteriorly-extending retainer-engaging projections for engaging upper posterior portions of the retainer structures, the retainer structures thus for supporting the housing assembly such that the light from the light source is guided in the anterior direction, the posteriorly-extending retainer-engaging projections and retainer structures for enhancing support of the housing assembly adjacent the mounting surface, the anterior direction being orthogonal to the mounting surface.