Display device and television receiver

• US 10,718,896 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2019
• Issued: 07/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Iwata, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Joseph L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Diaz, Jose M
• Application Number:
  US16/280,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20190257997A1
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0068 Arrangements of plural sources, e.g. multi-colour light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0073 Light emitting diode [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0085 Means for removing heat created by the light source from the package heat extraction or cooling elements for semiconductor light sources in general H01L33/64
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0088 of the light guide or other optical sheets in the package
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/009 of the light source in the package G02B6/0021 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0091 of the light source relative to the light guide G02B6/0021 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06

Abstract

A display device includes: a display panel that displays an image on a front thereof; a light-guiding plate placed opposite to a back of the display panel; a storage container in which the light-guiding plate is stored, the storage container having a dish shape; a light-emitting element that supplies the display panel with light; and a light source substrate having a short side part on a first surface of which the light-emitting element is mounted and a long side part projecting inward from the first surface of the short side part, the first surface of the short side part being disposed to face a peripheral edge of the light-guiding plate, the light source substrate having a shape of letter L in cross section. In the display device, the long side part of the light source substrate and a bottom plate of the storage container are thermally connected to each other.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel that displays an image on a front thereof;

a light-guiding plate placed opposite to a back of the display panel;

a storage container in which the light-guiding plate is stored, the storage container having a dish shape;

a light-emitting element that supplies the display panel with light;

a light source substrate having a short side part on a first surface of which the light-emitting element is mounted and a long side part projecting inward from the first surface of the short side part, the first surface of the short side part being disposed to face a peripheral edge of the light-guiding plate, the light source substrate having a shape of letter L in cross section; and

a heat sink provided between the light-guiding plate and the long side part of the light source substrate,

wherein the long side part of the light source substrate and a bottom plate of the storage container are thermally connected to each other, and

the long side part of the light source substrate is sandwiched between the heat sink and the bottom plate of the storage container so that the light source substrate is thermally connected to the heat sink and the storage container.

2. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a connector provided on a first surface of the long side part of the light source substrate that faces the display panel,

wherein the connector is disposed inside a hole provided in the heat sink.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the short side part of the light source substrate has a second surface that faces an inner surface of a side wall of the storage container, and

the short side part of the light source substrate and the side wall of the storage container are thermally connected to each other.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the light source substrate is disposed at each of upper and lower peripheral edges of the light-guiding plate.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the storage container and the heat sink are each made of aluminum, aluminum oxide, or copper.

6. A television receiver comprising:

the display device according to claim 1; and

a receiving unit that receives a television broadcast,

wherein the display panel displays an image based on the television broadcast received by the receiving unit.