Thin film type back light unit for flat panel display

• US 9,523,808 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
• Original Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG, LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Bang, Hyungseok, Bruder, Friedrich-Karl, Fcke, Thomas Peter, Hagen, Rainer, Walze, Gnther
• Primary Examiner(s): Neils, Peggy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garlen, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US14/586,014
• Publication Number:
  US 20150185393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0023 provided by one optical element, or plurality thereof, placed between the light guide and the light source, or around the light source
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0026 Wavelength selective element, sheet or layer, e.g. filter or grating
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0035 provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0055 Reflecting element, sheet or layer
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0065 Manufacturing aspects; Material aspects

Abstract

Disclosed is a flat panel display device having a display panel and a back light unit in which the back light unit may, for example, include a base film having a width and a length and including a high refractive film and a low refractive film on the high refractive film; a first incident pattern at a one side of a first surface of the base film; a reflective pattern on the first surface of the base film at an opposite side spaced apart from the one side with a distance substantially corresponding to the length of the first surface of the base film and substantially covering the width of the first surface of the base film; a light radiating pattern on a second surface of the base film; and a light source spaced apart from the first incident pattern with a first focal length and providing an incident light to the first incident pattern.

Claims

1. A flat panel display device having a display panel and a back light unit, the back light unit comprising:

a base film having a width and a length and including a high refractive film and a low refractive film on the high refractive film;

a first incident pattern at a one side of a first surface of the base film;

a reflective pattern on the first surface of the base film at an opposite side from the one side having the first incident pattern, wherein a distance between the first incident pattern and the reflective pattern is substantially equal to the length of the first surface of the base film, and wherein a length of the reflective pattern is substantially equal to the width of the first surface of the base film;

a light radiating pattern on a second surface of the base film; and

a light source spaced apart from the first incident pattern with a first focal length and providing an incident light to the first incident pattern.

2. The device according to the claim 1, further comprising:

a reflection layer covering the first surface of the base film excluding the incident pattern and the reflective pattern.

3. The device according to the claim 1, wherein the first incident pattern includes a holography pattern that converts the incident light into an expanded light,

wherein the incident light perpendicularly enters onto a surface of the incident pattern, and

wherein the expanded light has a refraction angle greater than a critical angle for total reflection at an interface between the high refractive film and the low refractive film, and is expanded substantially corresponding to the width.

4. The device according to the claim 3, wherein the expanded light propagates to the reflective pattern through the high refractive film.

5. The device according to the claim 4, wherein the reflective pattern includes a holography pattern that converts the expanded light into a collimated light which has a reflection angle smaller than the refraction angle and greater than a critical angle of total reflection at an interface between the low refraction film and an air, and covers the width.

6. The device according to the claim 5, wherein a portion of the collimated light is refracted by the light radiating pattern in a substantially perpendicular direction to the second surface of the base film, and is radiated outward from the low refractive film.

7. The device according to the claim 1, further comprising:

a second incident pattern on the second surface of the base film, facing the first incident pattern,

wherein the light source is spaced apart from the second incident pattern with a second focal length, and provides the incident light to the second incident pattern.

8. The device according to the claim 7, wherein the first incident pattern is a holography pattern made with a short wavelength light of the incident light, and

wherein the second incident pattern is a holography pattern made with a long wavelength light of the incident light.

9. The device according to the claim 7, wherein a distance difference between the first focal length and the second focal length substantially corresponds to a thickness of the base film.