Universal Quick Connector Apparatus for an LCD Monitor

Abstract

A universal connector apparatus comprising a first component and a second component. The first component is fixedly secured to a housing of an LCD monitor and includes a wedge shaped projection or protrusion and a first electrical connector. The second component forms a docking station and is fixedly secured to any other support surface where the LCD monitor is to be attached and supported from. The second component includes a second electrical connector intended to matingly engage with the first electrical connector. The LCD monitor is attached to the second component by slidably engaging the wedge shaped protrusion or projection of the first component into a wedge shaped recess formed in the second component. This automatically centers the two electrical connectors before they matingly engage one another and prevents damage to the male pins of the male electrical connector. The apparatus enables an LCD monitor to be quickly and easily attached and released from a support surface incorporating the second component so that the monitor may be used at a different location as may be needed.

1 . A system comprising a display screen and a connector apparatus for allowing quick electrical and mechanical coupling and decoupling of said display screen to a support member disposed on a rear portion of a car seat, said system comprising:
 a first component mounted at a surface of said display screen, said first component having a first mating member and first electrical connector; and   a second component mountable to said support member disposed on the rear portion of the car scat, said second component having a second mating member and a second electrical connect, wherein said first and second mating members have complementary shapes to allow the first mating member to engage onto the second mating member so that the support member physically supports said display screen, while said first electrical connector concurrently engages with said second electrical connector to also cause electrical coupling of the two electrical connectors, wherein the first component is mounted at the rear surface of the display screen and the first mating member is allowed to be lowered onto the second mating member.