Patent ID: 7847794

Claim:
A monitor apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a case that is installed in a shelf and attached to a lateral surface of a roof in the vehicle; a LCD monitor that is assembled so as to slide in a lateral direction through a connection/guide device; a positioning sensing device that is installed in the case so as to detect the position of the LCD monitor; a controller that outputs a control signal which moves the LCD monitor to a fully developed position or a fully received position according to a signal from an operational switch and a signal from the positioning sensing device; and a transfer device that transfers the LCD monitor in response to control signals generated from the controller between the fully received position and the fully developed position in the lateral direction, wherein the positioning sensing device comprising: a limit switch for detecting the received position and a limit switch for detecting the developed position installed in a first side of the upper end of the LCD monitor and in the second side of the upper end of the LCD monitor respectively; and an upper side stopper that protrudes from the internal surface of an inlet of the case so as to press the limit switch for detecting the received position in the fully received position of the LCD monitor and so as to press the limit switch for detecting the developed position in the fully developed position of the LCD monitor.