Patent ID: 7292287

Claim:
A structure for fixing a television to a mounting body when the television is mounted on the mounting body, for preventing the television from falling down when a vibration is imposed upon the television, the television having a cabinet, and a power cord which has an equipment end fixed to the cabinet and extends substantially backward from the cabinet, wherein the mounting body is an electrical apparatus on which the television is to be mounted, wherein the electrical apparatus has: a recessed portion on an edge formed by a bottom face and a back face of the electrical apparatus; and a hook member which is detachably fixed to one of a plurality of attaching places provided in the recessed portion so that a position at which the hook member is fixed to the recessed portion is changeable, the hook member extending substantially downward from the recessed portion when fixed to one of the attaching places so that the power cord is securely wound around the hook member, and having a pair of horizontal extensions which extend from a lower end of the hook member substantially horizontally and in respective directions which are substantially opposite, so as to prevent the power cord wound around the hook member from falling away from the hook member by the presence of the horizontal extensions, the horizontal extensions having respective prongs extending substantially upward from respective ends of the horizontal extensions, wherein the recessed portion has a plurality of fixing bores formed at the respective attaching places, wherein the hook member has an insert portion which is inserted into one of the plurality of the fixing bores and turned there so that the hook member is fixed to the recessed portion at one of the plurality of the attaching places corresponding to the one fixing bore, and wherein the power cord is securely wound around the hook member by being sequentially and repeatedly inserted from one of a pair of first intervals each defined between an upper end of each of the prongs and a ceiling of the recessed portion, into corresponding one of a pair of second intervals each defined between each of the horizontal extensions and the ceiling, and then from the other of the pair of first intervals into the corresponding second interval so that the television is fixed to the electrical apparatus on which the television is mounted.