Light bundle control member, light emitting device, area light source device, and display device
AssigneeEnplas Corporation
InventorHaruto Nagami
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Abstract
A light bundle control member comprises: an incident plane which is an inner surface of a recess opening toward a back side so as to intersect a central axis of the light bundle control member; an exit plane disposed on a front side so as to intersect the central axis; a back surface which is connected to an opening edge of the recess and formed so as to be spaced apart from the opening edge of the recess; and a protrusion disposed on the back surface and protruding from the back surface toward the back side. A tip-end surface of the protrusion and at least an area surrounding the protrusion on the back surface have different properties.
Claims7
A light flux controlling member configured to control a distribution of light emitted from a light-emitting element, the light flux controlling member comprising:
- an incidence surface that is an inner surface of a recess that is open toward a rear side of the light flux controlling member so as to intersect a central axis of the light flux controlling member, the incidence surface being configured to allow incidence of the light emitted from the light-emitting element;
- an emission surface disposed on a front side of the light flux controlling member so as to intersect the central axis, the emission surface being configured to emit, to outside, light entered from the incidence surface;
- a rear surface connected with an opening edge of the recess, the rear surface being formed so as to extend away from the opening edge of the recess;
- a protrusion disposed on the rear surface so as to protrude toward the rear side from the rear surface;
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- a leg part protruding toward the rear side from the rear surface;
- wherein the leg part being configured to mount the light flux controlling member to a substrate where the light-emitting element is disposed;
- wherein the leg part includes a contact surface configured to make contact with the substrate;
- wherein the contact surface of the leg part is closer to the rear side than an end surface of the protrusion;
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- wherein the end surface of the protrusion and at least a region surrounding the protrusion in the rear surface have different properties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.