LIGHT GUIDE PLATE AND TRANSPARENT DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME

• US 20160313493A1
• Filed: 04/27/2015
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chi Lin Optoelectronics Co., LTD. (CHI MEI Optoelectronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Chi Lin Optoelectronics Co., LTD. (CHI MEI Optoelectronics Corporation)
• Inventors: TAI, YI-HSUAN, WANG, CHIN-MING, WANG, HUNG-WEN, CHIU, HUANG-CHIEH, LEE, KUN-HSIEN, WU, MING-HSIEN
• Application Number:
  US14/697,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20160313493A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0036 2-D arrangement of prisms, protrusions, indentations or roughened surfaces
• 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]

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a light guide plate and a display apparatus having the same. The light guide plate includes a transparent light guide plate body and a plurality of microstructures. The transparent light guide plate body has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the first surface has a surface roughness of less than or equal to 100 nm. The microstructures are disposed on the first surface. A light beam from the transparent light guide plate body is reflected by the microstructures, and another light beam from the transparent light guide plate body passes through the first surface between the microstructures.

Claims

1. A light guide plate, comprising:

a transparent light guide plate body, having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the first surface has a surface roughness of less than or equal to 100 nm; and

a plurality of microstructures, disposed on the first surface;

wherein a light beam from the transparent light guide plate body is reflected by the microstructures, and another light beam from the transparent light guide plate body passes through the first surface between the microstructures.

2. The light guide plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface roughness is greater than or equal to 20 nm.

3. The light guide plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 150 μ

m.

4. The light guide plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein a ratio of the height of each of the microstructures to the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 0.01.

5. The light guide plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein a ratio of the height of each of the microstructures to the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 0.005.

6. A transparent display apparatus, comprising:

a light guide plate, comprising;

a transparent light guide plate body, having a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the first surface has a surface roughness of less than or equal to 100 nm; and

a plurality of microstructures, disposed on the first surface, wherein a light beam from the transparent light guide plate body is reflected by the microstructures, and another light beam from the transparent light guide plate body passes through the first surface between the microstructures;

a panel, disposed above the light guide plate, wherein the light beam from the light guide plate enters the panel; and

a light source, disposed adjacent to the transparent light guide plate body.

7. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein a distance between the panel and the light guide plate is less than or equal to 10 mm.

8. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the surface roughness is greater than or equal to 20 nm.

9. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 150 μ

m.

10. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein a ratio of the height of each of the microstructures to the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 0.01.

11. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein a ratio of the height of each of the microstructures to the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 0.005.

12. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, further comprising at least one collimating element, wherein the light source includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that are individually controlled to emit light, and the collimating element is disposed between the transparent light guide plate body and one of the LEDs.

13. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein a light beam after passing the collimating element is defined as a collimating light, more than 90 percentages of the total flux of a first collimating light on a vertical plane is disposed within a vertical viewing angle θ

1 of ±

30 degrees, and more than 90 percentages of the total flux of a second collimating light on a horizontal plane is disposed within a horizontal viewing angle θ

2 of ±

30 degrees, wherein the horizontal plane is parallel to the first surface of the transparent light guide plate body and is perpendicular to the vertical plane, the vertical viewing angle θ

1 is defined as the angle between an emitting direction of the first collimating light and the normal direction of the collimating element, and the horizontal viewing angle θ

2 is defined as the angle between an emitting direction of the second collimating light and the normal direction of the collimating element.

14. A transparent display apparatus, comprising:

a light guide plate, comprising;

a transparent light guide plate body, having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and

a plurality of microstructures, disposed on the first surface, wherein at least one of the microstructures includes a plurality of diffusion particles therein, and the diameter of each of the diffusion particles is less than or equal to 100 nm, and a ratio of the height of each of the microstructures to the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 0.01, wherein a light beam from the transparent light guide plate body is scattered by the diffusion particles in the at least one of the microstructures, and another light beam from the transparent light guide plate body is reflected by the first surface between the microstructures;

a panel, disposed above the light guide plate, wherein the light beam from the light guide plate enters the panel; and

a light source, disposed adjacent to the transparent light guide plate body.

15. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein a distance between the panel and the light guide plate is less than or equal to 10 mm.

16. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 150 μ

m.

17. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein a ratio of the height of each of the microstructures to the diameter of each of the microstructures is less than or equal to 0.005.

18. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 14, further comprising at least one collimating element, wherein the light source includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that are individually controlled to emit light, and the collimating element is disposed between the transparent light guide plate body and one of the LEDs.

19. The transparent display apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein a light beam after passing the collimating element is defined as a collimating light, more than 90 percentages of the total flux of a first collimating light on a vertical plane is disposed within a vertical viewing angle θ

1 of ±

30 degrees, and more than 90 percentages of the total flux of a second collimating light on a horizontal plane is disposed within a horizontal viewing angle θ

2 of ±

30 degrees, wherein the horizontal plane is parallel to the first surface of the transparent light guide plate body and is perpendicular to the vertical plane, the vertical viewing angle θ

1 is defined as the angle between an emitting direction of the first collimating light and the normal direction of the collimating element, and the horizontal viewing angle θ

2 is defined as the angle between an emitting direction of the second collimating light and the normal direction of the collimating element.