Rear Chassis for a Curved Panel Display

A curved panel display in which an internal chassis (16) supporting a back-light assembly (12) and optical sheets (17) is produced as a curved unit to match the curvature of the final display. However, the chassis (16) needs to have a certain minimum thickness to support the components mounted on to it, and the thicker the chassis is, the more difficult its manufacture as a single unit becomes. In order to simplify manufacturing, the chassis is assembled from prefabricated components such as a rectangular back-plate (161), and frame segments (162, 163, 164) which are mounted at the edges of the back-plate. Either the backplate or the frame segments are prefabricated as curved components, so that, on assembly, the stiffer curved component forces the less stiff non-curved component(s) to bend thus achieving a curved unit. Alternatively, all the component parts are prefabricated as curved components.