Light reflector, planar light source and illumination device using the same
AssigneeYupo Corporation
InventorsTakahiko Ueda, Hiroshi Koyama, Haruto Nagakusa
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Abstract
A light reflector comprising a resin film having a reflection angle peak ratio [i.e. (reflection peak value when a light ray is applied at an angle of 45° to the perpendicular line of the reflection surface)/(reflection peak value when a light ray is applied at an angle of 15° to the perpendicular line of the reflection surface)] of from 1.3 to 10, and a specular reflectance [i.e. (reflectance)−(diffuse reflectance)] of from 1.4% to 10%. This light reflector can prevent generation of a bright line even when it is used in an illumination device having a plurality of light sources.
Claims11
A light reflector comprising:
- a resin film,
- wherein the resin film comprises a bright line preventing layer (B),
- the bright line preventing layer (B) contains a filler in a concentration of at most 20% by weight,
- the light reflector has a reflection angle peak ratio P of from 1.3 to 10, in which the reflection angle peak ratio P is obtained from a reflection peak value P1 and a reflection peak value P2, as measured on a surface of the bright line preventing layer (B), according to the formula (1):
- Reflection Angle Peak Ratio P=P2/P1 (1)
- wherein P1 represents a reflection peak value of the light reflector when a light ray is applied at an angle of 15° to a perpendicular line of the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B) of the light reflector;
- P2 represents a reflection peak value of the light reflector when a light ray is applied at an angle of 45° to the perpendicular line of the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B) of the light reflector,
- the light reflector has a specular reflectance R2 of from 1.4% to 10%, in which the specular reflectance R2 is obtained from a reflectance R1 and a diffuse reflectance R3, as measured on the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B), according to formula (2):
- Specular Reflectance R2=R1−R3 (2)
- wherein R1 represents a reflectance on the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B) of the light reflector;
- R3 represents a diffuse reflectance on the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B) of the light reflector,
- the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B) has projections and recesses, and a density by number of the projections and recesses of the surface of the bright line preventing layer (B) is from 0.1×10−4 to 3.5×10−4/μm2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.