Sealing tape, phosphor sheet, lighting device, liquid-crystal display, method for manufacturing phosphor sheet, and sealing method

#The present application claims priority of Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-32279 (filed on Feb. 21, 2014), the entire disclosure of which is incorporated into the present application by reference.

#The present disclosure relates to a sealing tape that blocks water vapor, a phosphor sheet in which the sealing tape is used, a lighting device, a liquid-crystal display, a method for manufacturing a phosphor sheet, and a sealing method.

#A backlight-type light source is used in a liquid-crystal display in order to irradiate a liquid-crystal panel from the back to a front surface thereof. In recent years, in accompaniment to trends toward larger, thinner, lighter, and longer life liquid-crystal displays, and from a viewpoint of improving video properties of such liquid-crystal displays through on/off control, there has been much interest in light-emitting devices that perform surface light emission through an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on a substrate. Extraction of white light from such light-emitting devices is mainly carried out by the following two methods.

#In the accompanying drawings:

#FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view illustrating configuration of a sealing tape according to a present embodiment;

#FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an example of configuration at an edge of a phosphor sheet;

#A detailed description of embodiments of the present disclosure is provided in the following order with reference to the drawings.

#1. Sealing tape

#2. Phosphor sheet