Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
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Hi gang,
I'm working on the design of an electronic test and measurement instrument (oscilloscope) that has a large display on the front. A flat panel LCD (like laptop) is the most likely candidate for the display, but every manufacturer seems to have a different mounting scheme and connector location. Is there ANY standard or pseudo-standard for the mounting locations/positions for these things? Do the laptop guys change the mounting every 3 months when the display that they designed for goes obsolete?
I'm working on the design of an electronic test and measurement instrument (oscilloscope) that has a large display on the front. A flat panel LCD (like laptop) is the most likely candidate for the display, but every manufacturer seems to have a different mounting scheme and connector location. Is there ANY standard or pseudo-standard for the mounting locations/positions for these things? Do the laptop guys change the mounting every 3 months when the display that they designed for goes obsolete?
RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
Additionally, a laptop supplier presumably has sufficient clout in volume to get what it wants anyway.
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RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
What about the displays for industrial equipment?
RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
I know Sharp and NEC supply panels for "long life" industrial products. I'll check with them to see what they have to offer.
Tyler Cox
Principal
Applied Product Design, LLC
Westtown, NY 10998
RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
There are the regular issues of shock, sealing and etc. but none of these LCD's have mounting holes - their typical applications are desperate not to use up package space. That leaves some style of bonding likely with (a very thin) 2-sided foam gasket as the most viable alternative.
Unfortunately, many of the small volume users for whom we work are loathe to permanently bond as, they claim, they like to reuse the rest of the device in the event that a LCD should break.
We have variously tried small custom moulded rubber mounts or spacers, mounting it to pcb (where it takes up space) and anyway many LCD's have components on back anyway.
I guess my questions are first, what do the LCD mfr's expect us to do, and second if permanent bonding is not an option available to us, what have people tried and how happy were they with the results?
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RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
RE: Laptop style lcd mounting - is there any standard
Good luck.