Patent ID: 8646194

Claim:
A backlit graphic display device for illuminating a graphic panel, the backlit graphic display device comprising: a housing assembly, the housing assembly comprising a housing top, a housing bottom, a housing back, a housing front, and peripheral housing edging, the homing back comprising an assembly-receiving cavity, the housing edging defining a panel-receiving section in anterior adjacency to the assembly-receiving cavity; a light source assembly, the light source assembly comprising, in electrical communication: a power source, a light source, and a switch, portions of the light source assembly being receivable in the assembly-receiving cavity; a light guide assembly, the light guide being positionable in anterior adjacency to the power source in edge adjacency to the light source for guiding light from the light source in an anterior direction orthogonal to a light guide plate of the light guide; and device-to-window fastening means for fastening the graphic display device to a window, the device-to-window fastening means being cooperably associated with the peripheral housing edging for supporting the housing assembly such that the light from the light source is guided in the anterior direction, the anterior direction being orthogonal to a window plane of the window, wherein the laterally opposed retainer structures comprise hook and loop type fastening means for fastening the graphic display device to the window, the laterally opposed retainer structures being integrally formed with the housing back for receiving the hook and loop fastening means within a matable fastening means gap, the matable fastening means gap being structurally situated intermediate anterior surfacing of the laterally opposed retainer structures and a forward most anterior plane of the housing front, the laterally opposed retainer structures and the book and loop fastening means thus for mounting the anterior plane flush against a window plane of the window.