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Optical element, lighting device, and liquid crystal display device

  • US 20070291369A1
  • Filed: 06/19/2007
  • Published: 12/20/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An optical element having a light-emitting surface that emits light while diffusing it, said light-emitting surface having a plurality of parallel elongated lens surfaces arranged side-by-side in a row thereon, said elongated lens surfaces each having an arcuate cross-section, wherein a height of said arcuate cross-section of said elongated lens surfaces varies continuously and repeatedly in a longitudinal direction of said elongated lens surfaces.

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