Abstract:
A monitor visor includes a top component and two side components respectively formed at two sides of the top component, wherein the top and side components are formed in a sheet-like configuration and are orderly connected to form a visor body having a visor cavity with a bottom opening. The sizes of top and side closing walls of the visor cavity match with the sizes of the top and side edges of the monitor respectively. A connecting component is provided between the top component and the side component to join the top component and the side component together. The contour of the inner side of the connecting component matches the shape of the vertex angle of the monitor. The visor is able to match the monitor screen with a circular or another shape of its vertex angle. The visor is easily disassembled, packaged and transported in a convenient manner.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION 
     1. Field of Invention 
     This invention relates to a monitor visor, especially relates to a monitor visor for fitting the monitor screen having round top corners. 
     2. Description of Related Arts 
     The environmental light projected on a screen of a personal computer will affect the visualization of the user and the color shown on the screen, so that the user may have the illusion of the incorrectly display on the screen. Using the visor for a personal or portable computer can effectively prevent the interference of the environmental light and the diffused light on the screen. However, there has no generalized universal computer cover or visor for incorporating with most of the current portable computer screens. In particular, there is no existing monitor visor designed for the monitor (e.g. “Apple-Mac” monitor) having round top corners or other non-rectangular shaped monitors. 
     SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION 
     An object of the present invention is to provide a monitor visor, which is adapted for incorporating with a monitor screen with round top corners to other non-rectangular shaped monitors. 
     Accordingly, in order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a monitor visor which comprises a top component and two side components respectively formed at two sides of the top component, wherein the top component and the two side components are formed in a sheet-like configuration. The three components are orderly connected to form a visor body having a visor cavity with a top closing wall, two side closing walls, and a bottom opening. The sizes of the top closing wall and the side closing walls of the visor cavity match with the sizes of the top edge and two side edges of the monitor respectively. At least a connecting component is provided between the top component and at least one of the side components, wherein the connecting component joins the top component and the side component together. The shape of the inner side of the connecting component matches the shape of the vertex angle of the monitor. 
     The advantage of the present invention is that the connecting component is provided between the top component and the side components, wherein the contour of the inner side of the connecting component matches the shape of the vertex angle of the monitor, such that the monitor visor of the present invention can fit and incorporate with the monitor with top round corner or other vertex angles of the top corners. It can match different monitors by using different connecting components without changing the whole visor. 
     According to the present invention, the monitor visor can be further modified as follows. 
     Accordingly, the connecting components are individually formed between the top component and the two side components. 
     Furthermore, the monitor visor further comprises a retention component provided at the visor body to retain the visor body at the monitor in position. 
     Furthermore, the first type of the retention component comprises: 
     a plurality of location elements provided at the top component and two side components respectively, wherein each of the location elements has an engaging portion protruded out of the inner surface of the respective top and side components, wherein the height of the engaging portion of each of the location elements matches with the width of the rim of the monitor, wherein when the monitor is supported within the visor cavity of the visor body, the location element at the top component substantially contacts at the top rim of the monitor at the rear side thereof while the location elements at the side components substantially contact at the left and right rims of the monitor at the front side thereof respectively so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     The first alternative mode of the first type of the retention component comprises: 
     two location elements provided at the two side components respectively, wherein the engaging portions of the location elements are protruded out of the inner surface of the side components, wherein the height of the engaging portion of each of the location elements matches the width of the rim of the monitor, when the monitor is supported within the visor cavity of the visor body, the engaging portions of the location elements at the side components substantially contact at the left and right rims of the monitor at the front and back sides thereof respectively, so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     The second alternative mode of the first type of the retention component comprises: 
     two location elements spacedly provided at the top component, wherein the engaging portions of the location elements are protruded out of the inner surface of the top components, wherein the height of the engaging portion of each of the location elements matches the width of the rim of the monitor, when the monitor is supported within the visor cavity of the visor body, the engaging portions of the location elements at the top component substantially contact at the top rim of the monitor at the front and back sides thereof respectively, so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     The second type of the retention component comprises: 
     a plurality of sliding arrangements provided at the two side components respectively, wherein each of the sliding arrangements comprises a sliding slot provided at the respective side component and a sliding element slidably coupled along the sliding slot, wherein each of the sliding element has a coupling end adjustably engaging with the side rim of the monitor to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     The first alternative mode of the second type of the retention component comprises: 
     a plurality of sliding arrangements provided at the two side components respectively, wherein each of the sliding arrangements comprises a sliding slot provided at the respective side component, and a sliding element having an upper end slidably coupled along the sliding slot and a lower end extending out of the sliding slot to adjustably couple with the side rim of the monitor so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     The second alternative mode of the second type of the retention component comprises: 
     a sliding arrangement provided at the top component, wherein the sliding arrangements comprises a sliding slot provided at the top component, and a sliding element having one end slidably coupled along the sliding slot and an opposed end extending out of the sliding slot to adjustably couple with the top rim of the monitor so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     The third alternative mode of the second type of the retention component comprises: 
     a sliding arrangement provided at the top component, wherein the sliding arrangement comprises a sliding slot provided at the top component, and a sliding element having an upper end slidably coupled along the sliding slot and a lower end extending out of the sliding slot to adjustably couple with the top rim of the monitor so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor. 
     Using the location element, the visor body can be securely held at the monitor to prevent any unwanted sliding movement of the visor body. 
     Furthermore, the connecting component for coupling the top component with the side components comprises two coupling grooves formed at two side ends of the connecting component, wherein each end portion of the top component is detachably coupled with one of the coupling grooves of the connecting component while the end portion of the side component is detachably coupled with another coupling groove of the connecting component so as to detachably couple the top component with the respective side component. 
     The advantage of using the above mentioned structure of the connecting component is that when the top and side components are coupled at the coupling grooves of the connecting component respectively, the visor body can be easily and securely assembled and dissembled. 
     Furthermore, at least one of the side components has at least one communication slot arranged in such a manner that when the visor body is held with the monitor, the communication slot is aligned with the connection port of the monitor, wherein the connection port can be the optical connection port, monitor adjusting buttons, and/or the periphery accessory interface located at the side rim of the monitor. Accordingly, the communication slot is a through slot having the shape and size matching with the connection port of the monitor. 
     Alternatively, at least one of the side components has at least one accessing notch formed at a rear edge thereof and arranged in such a manner that when the visor body is held with the monitor, the accessing notch is aligned with the connection port of the monitor, wherein the connection port can be the optical connection port, monitor adjusting buttons, and/or the periphery accessory interface located at the side rim of the monitor. Accordingly, the accessing notch is an indention of the side component and has the shape and size matching with the connection port of the monitor. 
     The advantage of having the communication slot or the accessing notch at the side component is that the user is able to access the connection port of the monitor to connect with the external device without removing the visor body from the monitor. 
     The visor can be made of various materials to provide different functions. Accordingly, the visor can be made of bamboo charcoal adapted for adsorbing toxic gases and electromagnetic radiation, biodegradable plastic, high-strength carbon, woven carbon fiber, applied-nanotechnology materials, aluminum-magnesium alloy and other light metal alloys, thin iron material after rust prevention treatment, stainless steel, magnetic medium wave absorbing material, dielectric polymer composite wave absorbing material, other electromagnetic radiation absorbable materials, plastic materials, starch, natural bamboo, bamboo fiber composite material, animal fur products, paper products, or aluminum composite material. 
     The visor described in the embodiments can be made by using the following processes: injection molding, sewing, paste, carving, stamping, die-casting, cutting, silkscreen printing. 
     These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a front view of a monitor visor according to a first preferred embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 2  is a partial enlarged sectional view of the monitor visor according to the above first embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 3  is a perspective view of the monitor visor according to the above first embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 4  is a bottom view of the monitor visor according to the above first embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 5  is a side view of the monitor visor according to a second preferred embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the side component of the present invention. 
         FIG. 6  is a perspective view of the side component of the monitor visor according to a third preferred embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the sliding arrangement at the side component. 
         FIG. 7  is a side view of the side component of the monitor visor according to a fourth preferred embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
     The principle and features of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The described embodiments is only used to explain the present invention and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. 
     Embodiment 1 
     As shown in  FIG. 1 , according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the visor consists of a top component  1 , and two side components which are a left side component  2  and a right side component  3 . The top component  1  is coupled to the two side components (i.e. the left side component  2  and the right side component  3 ) to form the visor body having a visor cavity and defining a top closing wall, two side closing walls and a bottom opening that the monitor  100  is received within the visor cavity. The shape and size of the visor body matches the shape of the monitor  100  that the top closing wall matches with the top rim  101  of the monitor  100  while the two side closing walls match with the two side rims  102 , i.e. the left and right rims, of the monitor  100  respectively. The top component  1  and the two side components  2 ,  3  are detachably coupled with each other via two connecting components  4 ,  5 . Each of the connecting components  4 ,  5  has an arc-shaped inner surface matching with a curvature of the vertex angle of the monitor, i.e. the top round corners  103  of the monitor  100 . 
     The monitor visor further comprises two side location elements  8 ,  9  provided at inner surfaces of the left and right side components  2 ,  3  respectively, and a top location element  7  provided at an inner surface of the top component  1 . Each of the top and side location elements  7 ,  8 ,  9 , has an engaging portion protruded from the inner surface of the respective top and side component  1 ,  2 ,  3 . Preferably, the engaging portions of the top and side location elements  7 ,  8 ,  9  are perpendicularly extended from the inner surfaces of the top and side components  1 ,  2 ,  3  respectively. The height of the engaging portion of each of the location elements  7 ,  8 ,  9  matches with the width of the top and side rims  101 ,  102  of the monitor  100 , wherein when the monitor  100  is supported within the visor cavity of the visor body, the top location element  7  at the top component  1  substantially contacts at the top rim  101  of the monitor  100  at the rear side thereof while the side location elements  8 ,  9  at the side components  2 ,  3  substantially contact at the left and right rims  102  of the monitor  100  at the front side thereof respectively so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor  100  via the location elements  7 ,  8 ,  9 . 
       FIG. 2  is a partially enlarged view of the first embodiment according to the present invention. As shown in  FIG. 2 , each of the connecting components  4 ,  5  has a connecting unit  6  to detachably couple with the top component  1 , the left side component  2 , and the right side component  3 . In particular, the connecting component  4  is detachably coupled with the top component  1  and the left side component  2  while the connecting component  5  is detachably coupled with the top component  1  and the right side component  3 . Each of the connecting component  4 ,  5  has a curved inner surface having a curvature matching with the corresponding top round corner  103  of the monitor  100 . Accordingly, the connecting unit  6 , which is formed a tongue-groove configuration, comprises two coupling grooves formed at two side ends of the connecting component  4 ,  5 , wherein each of the coupling grooves has a size and shape matching with the end portion of the top component  1  and the end portion of each of the side components  2 ,  3 . Therefore, the two end portions of the top component  1  and the top end portions of the side components  2 ,  3  form the protruding engaging portions to slidably engage with the coupling grooves respectively. In other words, the connecting component  4  is detachably coupled between the top component  1  and the left side component  2  by slidably coupling the end portion of the top component  1  and the end portion of the left side component  2  with the coupling grooves of the connecting component  4 . Likewise, the connecting component  5  is detachably coupled between the top component  1  and the right side component  3  by slidably coupling the end portion of the top component  1  and the end portion of the right side component  3  with the coupling grooves of the connecting component  5 . Alternatively, the connecting unit  6  can be embodied as glue element that the connecting components  4 ,  5  can be coupled with the top component  1 , the left side component  2 , and the right side component  3  via adhesive. 
     The curved inner surface of the connecting component  4  can match the monitor  100  with circular vertex angle. The connecting component  4  with different shapes can be interchanged to match the monitors with different shaped vertex angles. And the top component  1 , the left side component  2 , the right side component  3 , and the connecting component  4  are all individual components for being disassembled, conveniently transported and manufactured. 
       FIG. 3  is a perspective view of the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in  FIG. 3 , when the monitor visor is held to encircle with the monitor  100 , the location element  7  is positioned at the top rim  101  of the monitor  100  at the rear side thereof, the location element  9  is positioned at the right-side rim  102  of the monitor  100  at the front side thereof, and the location element  8  is positioned at the left-side rim  102  of the monitor  100  at the front side thereof. The three location elements  7 ,  8 ,  9  can retain the visor with respect to the monitor  100 . There are two communication slot  10 ,  11  is formed at the left side component  3  to let users conveniently use the sockets at the side of the monitor  100 . 
       FIG. 4  is a bottom view of the first embodiment of the present invention.  FIG. 4  illustrates the relative position among the location elements  7 ,  8 ,  9 . 
     The inner surface of the connecting component  4  can be right-angle or other shapes to match the monitor screen with a right angle or other shapes of its vertex angle. Furthermore, there can be only one connecting component  4  between the top component  1  and one of the side components to be adapted to a monitor screen with only one special shape angle. 
     Embodiment 2 
     The second embodiment of the present invention is shown in  FIG. 5  to illustrate the alternative mode of the first embodiment. In the second embodiment, the structure of the second embodiment is same as the first embodiment except the structure of the retention components. According to the second embodiment, each of the top and side components  1 ,  2 ,  3  has two location elements  12 ,  13  extending parallelly. Each of the location elements  12 ,  13  has an engaging portion protruded out of the inner surface of the respective top and side components  1 ,  2 ,  3 , wherein the height of the engaging portion of each of the location elements  12 ,  13  matches with the width of the top rim  101  of the monitor  100 . 
     When the monitor  100  is supported within the visor cavity of the visor body, the location elements  12 ,  13  at the top component  1  substantially contact at the top rim  101  of the monitor  100  at the front and rear sides thereof such that the top rim  101  of the monitor  100  is fittingly located between the location elements  12 ,  13  at the top component  1 . The location elements  12 ,  13  at the side components  2 ,  3  substantially contact at the side rims  102  of the monitor  100  at the front and rear sides thereof such that the side rims  102  of the monitor  100  is fittingly located between the location elements  12 ,  13  at the side components  2 ,  3  respectively, so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor  100 . It is worth mentioning that the location elements  12 ,  13  can be formed at the top component  1  only or the location elements  12 ,  13  can be formed at the side components  2 ,  3  only to retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor  100 . 
     Embodiment 3 
     The third embodiment of the present invention is shown in  FIG. 6  to illustrate an alternative mode of the first and second embodiments. In the third embodiment, the structure of the third embodiment is same as the structures of the first and second embodiments except the structure of the retention component. According to the third embodiment, the retention component comprises a plurality of sliding arrangements provided at the top and side components  1 ,  2 ,  3  respectively, wherein each of the sliding arrangements comprises a sliding slot  14  provided at each of the top and side components  1 ,  2 ,  3  at the inner surface thereof and a sliding element  15  slidably coupled along the sliding slot  14 . Each of the sliding elements  15  has a sliding end slidably coupled with the respective sliding slot  14  and a coupling end adjustably engaging with the side rim  102  of the monitor  100  preferably by adhesive to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor  100 . In other words, the sliding elements  15  at the top component  1  are slidably adjusted to couple the coupling ends of the sliding elements  15  at the top rim  101  of the monitor  100  at the front and rear sides thereof respectively. The sliding elements  15  at the side components  2 ,  3  are slidably adjusted to couple the coupling ends of the sliding elements  15  at the side rims  102  of the monitor  100  respectively. Therefore, the visor body can be securely retained in position to enclose the monitor  100  therewithin. 
     According to the third embodiment, the sliding arrangement can provided at the top component  1  only or at the side components  2 ,  3  only. Alternatively, the sliding element  15  has an upper end slidably coupled along the sliding slot  14  and a lower end extending out of the sliding slot  14  to adjustably couple with the side rim  102  of the monitor  100  so as to substantially retain the visor body in position with respect to the monitor  100 . 
     Embodiment 4 
     The fourth embodiment of the present invention is shown in  FIG. 7  to illustrate another alternative mode of the first embodiment. According to the fourth embodiment, the structure of the fourth embodiment is same as the structure of the first embodiment except the structure of the communication slot at the two side components.  FIG. 7  is a right view of the right side component  3 . The right side component  3  has two accessing notches  16 ,  17  spacedly indented at the rear edge thereof, wherein each of the accessing notches  16 ,  17  is located with respect to the connection port  104  of the monitor  100 . When the visor body is held with the monitor  100 , the accessing notches  16 ,  17  are aligned with the connection ports  104  of the monitor  100  respectively, wherein the connection port  104  can be the optical connection port, monitor adjusting buttons, and/or the periphery accessory interface located at the side rim  102  of the monitor  100 . Accordingly, the accessing notch  16 ,  17  is an indention of the side component and has the shape and size matching with the connection port  104  of the monitor  100 . 
     One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting. It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. It embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.