LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20160054508A1
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• 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: HIRAYAMA, Yoshinobu, FUKUSHIMA, Hiroshi, ARAKI, Ryoh, YAGI, Shugo, KAGEYAMA, Masaki, INATA, Toru
• Application Number:
  US14/780,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20160054508A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0038 Linear indentations or grooves, e.g. arc-shaped grooves or meandering grooves, extending over the full length or width of the light guide
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0053 Prismatic sheet or layer; Brightness enhancement element, sheet or layer
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0055 Reflecting element, sheet or layer

Abstract

A backlight unit includes LEDs, a light guide plate, a reflection sheet, a prism sheet, and an anisotropic reflection portion. The light guide plate includes a light entrance surface opposed to the LEDs and light exit surface. The reflection sheet includes a reflection surface opposed to an opposite plate surface of the light guide plate opposite from the light exit surface. The prism sheet is formed on a side of the light guide plate opposite from a side on which the reflection sheet is disposed. The prism sheet includes unit prisms that extend along a first direction and are arranged parallel to one another along a second direction. The anisotropic reflection portion includes unit reflectors disposed on the reflection surface of the reflection sheet. The unit reflectors extend along the first direction and are arranged parallel to one another along the second direction.

Claims

1. A lighting device comprising:

a light source;

a light guide plate having a rectangular plate-like shape and including peripheral surfaces opposite from each other and plate surfaces, at least one of the peripheral surfaces being configured as a light entrance surface opposite the light source, one of the plate surfaces is configured as a light exit surface;

a reflection member including a reflection surface opposed to the plate surface of the light guide plate opposite from the light exit surface and configured to reflect light from the light guide plate with the reflection surface;

an anisotropic light collecting portion formed on a side of the light guide plate opposite from a side on which the reflection member is disposed and including unit light collectors extending along a first direction that is along peripheral surfaces of the light guide plate not including the light entrance surface, the unit light collectors being arranged parallel to one another along a second direction along the peripheral surfaces including the light entrance surface; and

an anisotropic reflection portion including unit reflectors disposed on the reflection surface of the reflection member, each of the unit reflectors extending along the first direction, the unit reflectors being arranged parallel to one another along the second direction.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the unit light collectors of the anisotropic light collecting portion are unit prisms each having a triangular cross section.

3. The lighting device according to claim 2, further comprising a lenticular lens portion on the light guide plate opposite the anisotropic light collecting portion, the lenticular lens portion including cylindrical lenses that extend along the first direction and arranged parallel to one another along the second direction.

4. The lighting device according to claim 3, wherein the lenticular lens portion is integrally formed with the light exit surface of the light guide plate.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein each of the unit light collectors of the anisotropic light collecting portion has a vertex angle set to 90°

.

6. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein each of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion has a triangular cross section.

7. The lighting device according to claim 6, wherein each of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion has a vertex angle set in a range from 103°

to 165°

.

8. The lighting device according to claim 6, wherein each of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion has a vertex angle set in a range from 115°

to 145°

.

9. The lighting device according to claim 6, wherein each of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion has a vertex angle set in a range from 120°

to 135°

.

10. The lighting device according to claim 6, wherein each of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion has a vertex angle set to 130°

.

11. The lighting device according to claim 6, wherein some of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion include rounded vertexes.

12. The lighting device according to claim 11, wherein all of the unit reflectors of the anisotropic reflection portion have rounded vertexes.

13. The lighting device according to claim 11, wherein

the anisotropic reflection portion includes the unit reflectors that include the rounded vertexes and the unit reflectors that include sharp vertexes, which are mixedly arranged;

and

the unit reflectors that include the rounded vertexes are arranged at intervals such that the unit reflectors that include the sharp vertexes therebetween with respect to the second direction and the vertexes of the unit reflectors that include the rounded vertexes are located closer to the light guide plate than those of the unit reflectors that include the sharp vertexes.

14. A display device comprising:

the lighting device according to claim 1; and

a display panel for displaying an image using light from the lighting device.

15. The display device according to claim 14, wherein the display panel is a liquid crystal panel including liquid crystals sealed between boards.