LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION DEVICE

• US 20160370530A1
• Filed: 06/27/2014
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• 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: SHIMIZU, Takaharu
• Granted Patent: US 9,684,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0031 Reflecting element, sheet or layer
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0083 Details of electrical connections of light sources to drivers, circuit boards, or the like
• 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: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133314 Back frames
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/342 using several illumination sources separately controlled corresponding to different display panel areas, e.g. along one dimension such as lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/31 Projection devices for colour picture display , e.g. using electronic spatial light modulators [ESLM]

Abstract

A backlight device includes an LED, a light guide plate having one edge surface as a light entrance surface, one plate surface as a light exit surface and another plate surface as an opposite plate surface, further includes a chassis having a bottom plate portion that includes a light guide plate support portion supporting the light guide plate from a side of the opposite plate surface and a light guide plate non-support portion not supporting the light guide plate from the side of the opposite plate surface, and further includes a reflection sheet having an extended reflection portion that extends closer to the LED than the light entrance surface of the light guide plate and having a cutout portion that is formed by cutting out at least a part of a portion of the extended reflection portion overlapping with the light guide plate non-support portion.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a light source;

a light guide plate having a plate shape and including at least one edge surface as a light entrance surface through which light from the light source enters, one plate surface as a light exit surface through which the light exits the light guide plate, and another plate surface as an opposite plate surface being opposite to the light exit surface;

a chassis having a bottom plate portion that includes a light guide plate support portion supporting the light guide plate from a side of the opposite plate surface and a light guide plate non-support portion not supporting the light guide plate from the side of the opposite plate surface; and

a reflection member that is disposed between the opposite plate surface of the light guide plate and the bottom plate portion of the chassis and reflects the light travelling through the light guide plate toward the light exit surface, the reflection member having an extended reflection portion that extends closer to the light source than the light entrance surface of the light guide plate and having a cutout portion that is formed by cutting out at least a part of a portion of the extended reflection portion overlapping with the light guide plate non-support portion.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the reflection member includes the cutout portion having a cutout edge that is a flush with the light entrance surface or opposite to the light source with respect to the light entrance surface.

3. The lighting device according to claim 2, wherein the cutout edge of the cutout portion is opposite to the light source with respect to the light entrance surface.

4. The lighting device according to claim 2, wherein

the light guide plate non-support portion has an edge that is opposite to the light source with respect to the light entrance surface, and

the cutout edge of the cutout portion of the reflection member is closer to the light entrance surface than the edge of the light guide plate non-support portion.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the cutout portion of the reflection member has an opening size in a direction along the light entrance surface continuously decreasing as is farther away from the light source.

6. The lighting device according to claim 5, wherein the cutout portion of the reflection member has a formation range in the direction along the light entrance surface greater than a formation range of the light guide plate non-support portion in the direction along the light entrance surface.

7. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the cutout portion of the reflection member has a formation range in the direction along the light entrance surface greater than a formation range of the cutout portion extending in a direction from the light source to the light entrance surface.

8. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light guide plate non-support portion includes an opening that is in the bottom plate portion.

9. The lighting device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a light source board on which the light source is mounted; and

a power feed portion feeding power to the light source on the light source board, wherein

the power feed portion is exposed to outside through the opening of the bottom plate portion.

10. The lighting device according to claim 9, wherein

the light source board has a light source mounting portion on which the light source is mounted, and a protrusion for power feeding protruding from the light source mounting portion in a direction from the light exit surface to the opposite plate surface, the protrusion for power feeding having the power feed portion thereon, and

the power feed portion and the protrusion for power feeding are exposed to outside through the opening of the bottom plate portion.

11. The lighting device according to claim 10, wherein the opening of the bottom plate portion has an opening edge that is opposite to the light source with respect to the light entrance surface.

12. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light guide plate non-support portion includes a recessed portion that is recessed in the bottom plate portion so as to be farther away from the light guide plate, and a deformation portion that is adjacent to the recessed portion in the bottom plate portion, the deformation portion being away from the opposite plate surface of the light guide plate by a distance that is relatively greater than a distance between the opposite plate surface of the light guide plate support portion and the light guide plate support portion.

13. The lighting device according to claim 12, further comprising a board that is opposite to the light guide plate with respect to the bottom plate portion and is attached to the recessed portion.

14. A display device comprising:

the lighting device according to claim 1; and

a display panel which displays an image by using light from the lighting device.

15. A television device comprising the display device according to claim 14.