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US 11,892,675 B2Granted
Illumination device and display device
AssigneeJapan Display Inc.
InventorsYuji Maede, Shinichi Komura, Hiroaki Kijima
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an illumination device comprises a light guide, a light source, a reflective layer, a first prism and a second prism, wherein the light guide has a thickness in a second direction increasing toward a second side surface, the first prism and the second prism have cross-sectional shapes being formed in a triangle shape, a first height of the first prism in the second direction is smaller than a second height of the second prism in the second direction.
Claims8
An illumination device comprising:
- a light guide including:
- a first side surface,
- a second side surface opposed to the first side surface in a first direction,
- a main surface, and
- an opposing surface opposed to the main surface in a second direction intersecting the first direction;
- a light source that is opposed to the first side surface and emits light to the first side surface;
- a reflective layer provided on the second side surface;
- a first prism provided on the opposing surface;
- and
- a second prism provided on a side closer to the second side surface in the first direction than the first prism on the opposing surface, wherein
- the light guide has a thickness in the second direction increasing from the first side surface toward the second side surface in the first direction,
- the opposing surface includes
- a first slope,
- a second slope located on a side closer to the second side surface than the first slope in the first direction,
- a third slope located on a side closer to the second side surface than the second slope in the first direction,
- a fourth slope located on a side closer to the second side surface than the third slope in the first direction,
- a first plane that connects the first slope and the second slope and is parallel to the main surface, and
- a second plane that connects the third slope and the fourth slope and is parallel to the main surface,
- the first prism and the second prism have cross-sectional shapes being formed in a triangle shape protruding to an opposite side of the opposing surface in the second direction,
- the first prism is disposed on the first plane,
- the second prism is disposed on the second plane,
- a first height of the first prism in the second direction is smaller than a second height of the second prism in the second direction, and
- a sum of the first height, a third height of the first slope in the second direction, and a fourth height of the second slope in the second direction is larger than a sum of the second height, a fifth height of the third slope in the second direction, and a sixth height of the fourth slope in the second direction.
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