Patent ID: 7903180

Claim:
A mountable sliding video display assembly for a vehicle comprising: a video display screen unit movable between a rear-most position and a forward-most position, the rear-most position and the forward-most position being spaced by a longitudinal distance L; a pair of tracks, including a first track and a second track, relatively longitudinally movable with respect to each other; said second track being adapted for mounting said pair of tracks to the vehicle; said first track having said video display screen unit mounted thereto; ball bearings between said pair of tracks to accommodate longitudinal movement of said first track and said second track with respect to each other; a carrier plate between said ball bearings and said first track, the carrier plate having a raised portion approximately in the center of the carrier plate; wherein the carrier plate includes openings approximately in the periphery of the carrier plate, the ball bearings being fitted in the openings; wiring connected to said video display screen unit, the wiring being flat; a passage between the first track and the raised portion of the carrier plate such that the wiring fits in the passage; wherein the wiring moves in the passage when the pair of said tracks moves relatively with respect to each other; wherein said video display screen unit is pivotally mounted to said first track to allow the video display screen unit to rotate between the rear-most position and a rearward stowed position; wherein the wiring forms a substantially U-shaped loop configured to allow the video display screen unit to move between the forward-most position, the rear-most position and the rearward stowed position; and wherein the U-shaped loop has a length that is at least half the longitudinal distance L between the rear-most position and the forward-most position of the video display screen unit.