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US 9,316,385 B2Granted
Lighting device and display device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasutoshi Maeda
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Abstract
A backlight device (lighting device) (12) according to the present invention includes a chassis (14) having an opened section (14b), optical members (15) disposed to cover the opened section (14b) in the chassis (14), LEDs (light source) (17) disposed outside of the chassis (14), and lens members (light guide members) (20) disposed in such a structure as to penetrate the chassis (14), the lens members guiding the light from the LEDs (17) into the chassis (14). An LED housing chassis (light source housing member) (19) that stores therein the LEDs (17) is attached to the chassis (14).
Claims15
An illumination device comprising:
- a chassis that has an opened section;
- an optical member disposed to cover the opened section of the chassis;
- a light source disposed outside of the chassis;
- a light guide member disposed in such a structure as to penetrate the chassis, the light guide member guiding light emitted from the light source into the chassis;
- a light source housing member that stores the light source therein, the light source housing member being attached to the chassis,
- wherein the light source housing member has a wall that divides an inner space thereof into a first space and a second space, the first space being on a side of the chassis, the second space being on a side opposite to the chassis, and
- wherein the light source is attached to said wall so as to be located in the first space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.