Abstract:
A display apparatus has a monitor body. The display apparatus includes a supporting part disposed in the monitor body; a stand having an mounting part mutually coupled to the supporting part; and an elastic member interposed between the supporting part and the mounting part. Here, the display apparatus in which the monitor body is easily coupled to the stand thereof is provided.

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS  
         [0001]    This application claims the benefit of Korean Application No. 2002-55810, filed Sep. 13, 2002, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.  
         BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
         [0002]    1. Field of the Invention  
           [0003]    The present invention relates to a display apparatus, and more specifically, to a flat panel display apparatus having a stand member.  
           [0004]    2. Description of the Related Art  
           [0005]    Conventionally, a display apparatus  101 , as shown in FIG. 5, comprises a monitor body  110  producing pictures and a base member  120  which supports the monitor body and is mounted on an installation place.  
           [0006]    To one part of the base member  120  is coupled a connecting part  140  having a plurality of through holes  140   a.  Screws  130  are inserted into the through holes  140   a  in the connecting part  140  and screw-coupled to the rear side of the monitor body  110  such that the monitor body  110  is coupled to the base member  120 .  
           [0007]    This display apparatus  101  is conventionally used while being mounted on a table (hereinafter, referred to a table type), but can be used as desired, by being attached to a wall (hereinafter, referred to a wall type).  
           [0008]    To install the conventional display apparatus  101  as the wall type, a user has to unscrew the screws  130  from the rear side of the monitor body  110  and remove the base member  120 , and then couple a separate fixing apparatus (not shown) to the display apparatus  101 , so that the display apparatus  101  can be attached to the wall.  
           [0009]    In the case that the wall type display apparatus is converted into the table type display apparatus, a user has to unscrew the fixing apparatus with a driver and then couple the monitor body  110  to the base member  120 . However, from the viewpoint of safety standards, to protect a consumer from an electrical shock and to prevent other problems, the disassembly from the rear side is desirably permitted only to skilled engineers, but not to a consumer.  
         SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
         [0010]    Accordingly, it is an aspect of the present invention to provide a display apparatus in which a monitor body is easily coupled to a stand member thereof.  
           [0011]    Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.  
           [0012]    The foregoing and/or other aspects of the present invention are achieved by providing a display apparatus having a monitor body, comprising: a supporting part disposed in the monitor body; a stand having an mounting part mutually coupled to the supporting part; and an elastic member interposed between the supporting part and the mounting part.  
           [0013]    The display apparatus further comprises screws passing through the supporting part, the mounting part and the elastic member, to combine the supporting part, the mounting part and the elastic member together, so that the monitor body is tightly coupled to the stand.  
           [0014]    It is an aspect of the invention that the elastic member includes a plate spring.  
           [0015]    It is another aspect of the invention that the plate spring is attached to a wall part of the monitor body in the back of the supporting part.  
           [0016]    It is another aspect of the invention that an upheaval part is formed in the mounting part so that the mounting part keeps off at a determined distance from the plate spring.  
           [0017]    In yet another aspect of the invention, the display apparatus further comprises a compression spring which surrounds the screw and is interposed between the plate spring and the supporting part.  
           [0018]    It is effective that the plate spring has a bent part bent toward the mounting part, wherein a slit of the predetermined width is formed in the bent part. 
       
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
       [0019]    These and/or other aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompany drawings of which:  
         [0020]    [0020]FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a display apparatus according to the present invention;  
         [0021]    [0021]FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the display apparatus of FIG. 1;  
         [0022]    [0022]FIG. 3 is an exploded side sectional view of a monitor body and a stand assembly in the display apparatus of FIG. 1;  
         [0023]    [0023]FIG. 4 is a combined side sectional view of the monitor body and the stand assembly in the display apparatus of FIG. 1; and  
         [0024]    [0024]FIG. 5 is a rear perspective view according to a conventional display apparatus. 
     
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT  
       [0025]    Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below in order to explain the present invention by referring to the figures.  
         [0026]    As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a display apparatus  1  according to the present invention comprises a monitor body  10  producing images and a stand assembly  20  supporting the monitor body  10 .  
         [0027]    The monitor body  10  comprises an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) panel  3  in which images are produced, a front cover  13  disposed in the front of the LCD panel  3  and a rear cover  14  disposed in the rear of LCD panel  3 .  
         [0028]    Holes  12  through which base brackets  23  of the stand assembly  20  are inserted into the monitor body  10  are formed in opposite sides of the bottom of the rear cover  14 . Also, a pair of supporting parts  16  are formed above the holes  12 , to receive the base brackets  23 , to thereby install the stand assembly  20 .  
         [0029]    The base brackets  23  of the stand assembly  20  are disposed in the supporting part  16  to be coupled with the monitor body  10 . The stand assembly  20  comprises a stand base  21  to be mounted on an installation place such as a table, and the pair of base brackets  23  rotatably coupled to the stand base  21  and having an L-shape cross-section, as shown in FIG. 2.  
         [0030]    An upheaval part  24  whose cross-sectional shape is lifted up as a “         ” shape, as shown FIG. 2, is formed at an upper end part of each base bracket  23  such that the base bracket  23  remains at a predetermined distance from a plate spring  17  to be described later. A screw hole  23   a  is formed in each upheaval part  24 .  
         [0031]    The stand base  21  has a rectangular frame shape and a pair of bracket joint parts  25  protruding from both edge sides thereof. A screw hole (not shown) is formed in the bracket joint part  25 , and a stand screw  27  is screw-coupled into the screw hole to couple each base bracket  23  to the bracket joint part  25 .  
         [0032]    A screw  30 , screwed to the rear cover  14  of the monitor body  10 , comprises a head part  31 , a body part  33  extended from the head part  31  and a screw part  35  on an end of the body part  33 . Herein, the head part  31  of the screw  30  is embedded into the wall of the rear cover  14  and the body part  33  is installed to pass through a slit  17   b  formed in the plate spring  17 , enclosed by a compression spring  19 .  
         [0033]    Screw through holes  18 , into which the screws  30  are inserted, are formed in the wall of the rear cover  14  where each supporting part  16  of the monitor body  10  is formed. A part of the wall in which the screw through hole  18  is formed protrudes outward, to thereby accommodate the head part  31  of the screw  30 , as shown in FIG. 3.  
         [0034]    The plate spring  17  is attached to the inner wall of the rear cover  14  adjacent to the supporting parts  16 . The plate spring  17  determines an installation position of the stand base  21  and reinforces the combination of the rear cover  14  and the base bracket  23 . A bent part  17   a  is formed in the upper part of the plate spring  17 , bent toward the base bracket  23 , and a slit  17   b,  having a predetermined width whose edge is open, is formed in the bent part  17   a.  Thus the body part  33  of the screw  30  passing through the screw through hole  18  protrudes toward the base bracket  23  through the slit  17   b  of the plate spring  17 .  
         [0035]    With this configuration, the process to assemble the monitor apparatus is described as follows.  
         [0036]    At first, the pair of base brackets  23  is coupled to the bracket joint parts  25  disposed at both edge sides of the stand base  21  by using the stand screws  27 . The base brackets  23 , coupled to the stand base  21 , are inserted into the supporting part  16  of the monitor body.  
         [0037]    Herein, the screw  30  is disposed previously so that the screw  30  is inserted into the screw through hole  18  of the rear cover  14 , through the slit  17   b  of the plate spring  17 .  
         [0038]    A process that the base bracket  23  is installed in the supporting part  16  is described as follows. As shown in FIG. 3, as the base bracket  23  is inserted into the supporting part  16 , the base bracket  23  pushes the bent part  17   a  of the plate spring  17 . Accordingly, the bent part  17   a  of the plate spring  17  is extended, and thereby, pushes the screw  30  in the slit  17   b  of the bent part  17   a  thereof backward. If the screw hole  23   a  of the base bracket  23  and the screw  30  are aligned, the screw  30  goes forward to the base bracket  23  by a restoring force of the compression spring  19  such that the screw part  35  of the screw  30  is located near to the screw hole  23   a  of the base bracket  23 . Thereafter, a user inserts a tool such as a screw driver into a slot (not shown) formed in a head part  31  of the screw  30  protruding outward of the rear cover  14  of the monitor body  10  and rotates the screw  30  by using the screw driver. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 4, the screw part  35  of the screw  30  is inserted into the screw hole  23   a  of the base bracket  23  such that the base bracket  23  and the plate spring  17  are coupled to each other. By this way, the monitor body  10  is coupled to the stand assembly  20 .  
         [0039]    As described above, the base brackets  23  of the stand assembly  20  are inserted into the supporting parts  16  formed in the bottom of the monitor body for installing the base brackets  23 , so that the base brackets  23  can be coupled to the monitor body  10  easily and firmly by the plate springs  17 , the compression springs  17  and the screws  30 .  
         [0040]    As described above, according to the present invention, a display apparatus in which a monitor body is easily coupled to a stand member thereof is provided.  
         [0041]    Although a few embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes may be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.