Patent ID: 7580249

Claim:
An electronic appliance comprising: a housing; a display unit which is rotatably provided on the housing, and has a display device and an outer frame made of resin molding for holding the display device; and a circuit board, which is a member of a controller and accommodated in the housing, is connected to the display device through a flexible circuit board and the controller controlling image displaying operation of the display device, wherein the display unit is configured so that the outer frame is rotatably borne on the housing and the angle of the display device with respect to the housing can be varied; a protector is integrally formed with the outer frame, which covers a portion of the flexible circuit board drawn from the outer frame so that a creeping distance between an outer surface of the outer frame in a vicinity of rotation shafts and the portion of the flexible circuit board extended outward from the outer frame becomes larger than a predetermined distance necessary for preventing discharge of static electricity to the flexible circuit board from outside of the housing; when the display unit lies down so that the display device becomes parallel to an upper surface of the housing, a portion of the flexible circuit board extended outward from the protector is bent toward the circuit board in the housing; and when the display unit stands up so that an angle of the display device with respect to a top face of the housing takes a predetermined angle near to 90 degrees, the portion of the flexible circuit board extended outward from the protector is folded to an opposite side while the flexible circuit board is connected to the circuit board.