ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20110103040A1
• Filed: 01/09/2009
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Teragawa, Daisuke
• Application Number:
  US12/991,945
• Publication Number:
  US 20110103040A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/97.1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133606 including a specially adapted diffusing, scattering or light controlling members
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133608 including particular frames or supporting means

Abstract

In an illuminating device (3) provided with a cold cathode fluorescent tube (linear light source) (20), a chassis (12) that houses the cold cathode fluorescent tube (20), a diffusion plate (15) that diffuses light from the cold cathode fluorescent tube (20), and a diffusion plate supporter (21) that is provided in the chassis (12) to support the diffusion plate (15), the diffusion plate supporter (21) includes: a substrate (21a) that is configured to be capable of being deformed elastically in response to changes in ambient temperature; an attachment portion (21c) that is provided on one (21a1) of opposed surface sides of the substrate (21a) and attaches the substrate (21a) to the chassis (12); and a support portion (21b) that is located on the other (21a2) of the opposed surface sides of the substrate (21a) so as to come into contact with the diffusion plate (15).

Claims

1. An illuminating device provided with a linear light source, a chassis that houses the linear light source, and a diffusion plate that diffuses light from the linear light source, the illuminating device comprising

a diffusion plate supporter that is provided in the chassis to support the diffusion plate,

wherein the diffusion plate supporter comprises:

a substrate that is configured to be capable of being deformed elastically in response to changes in ambient temperature;

an attachment portion that is provided on one of opposed surface sides of the substrate and attaches the substrate to the chassis; and

a support portion that is located on the other of the opposed surface sides of the substrate so as to come into contact with the diffusion plate.

2. The illuminating device according to claim 1, wherein the substrate is made of a material having substantially the same coefficient of thermal expansion as the diffusion plate.

3. The illuminating device according to claim 1,

wherein the substrate is attached to the chassis along a longitudinal direction of the linear light source, and

the two attachment portions are located on the substrate along the longitudinal direction.

4. The illuminating device according to claim 1,

wherein the substrate is attached to the chassis along a longitudinal direction of the linear light source, and

the two or more support portions are located on the substrate along the longitudinal direction.

5. The illuminating device according to claim 1,

wherein the substrate is attached to the chassis along a longitudinal direction of the linear light source, and

the attachment portion and the support portion are located on the substrate at positions different from each other in the longitudinal direction.

6. The illuminating device according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of the diffusion plate supporters are provided in the chassis along a longitudinal direction of the linear light source, and

among a plurality of the diffusion plate supporters, the diffusion plate supporter provided on one end side in the longitudinal direction includes the attachment portion on the other end side of the substrate in the longitudinal direction, while

the diffusion plate supporter provided on the other end side in the longitudinal direction includes the attachment portion on one end side of the substrate in the longitudinal direction.

7. The illuminating device according to claim 1, wherein a holder that holds the linear light source is located on the substrate.

8. The illuminating device according to claim 7, wherein the holder is located in the vicinity of the attachment portion on the substrate.

9. The illuminating device according to claim 1, wherein a slide contact portion that slides to contact a surface on the chassis side is provided on one of the surface sides of the substrate on an end side of the substrate.

10. A display device using the illuminating device according to claim 1.