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US 9,001,277 B2Granted
Television apparatus, electronic apparatus, and lens
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHirofumi Morita, Toshikatsu Nakamura
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes, a printed wiring board, light emitting diodes provided on the printed wiring board and configured to emit light parallel to the printed wiring board, and a lens including light receiving parts corresponding to the light emitting diodes, respectively, and a display part configured to display light which has been emitted from the light emitting diodes and has entered through the light receiving parts. The lens is provided with a cutout portion extending from a position between the light receiving parts to the display part.
Claims20
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a housing provided with an opening portion;
- a printed wiring board contained in the housing and provided with a concave portion and a plurality of light sources located near the concave portion;
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- a lens at least partially located in the concave portion and allowing passage of light through the opening portion, the lens comprises a main part, a display part to which light from the plurality of light sources is oriented, a plurality of light receiving surfaces each corresponding to a separate light source of the plurality of light sources and a cutout portion provided between the plurality of light receiving surfaces,
- wherein of light emitted from at least one of the plurality of light sources, light applied to the cutout portion is reflected to the main part of the lens and is guided to the display part by being further reflected by a side surface of the main part of the lens.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.