Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Light guide plate, planar light source apparatus, display apparatus, and electronic device
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Application No.: US17077535Application Date: 2020-10-22
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Publication No.: US11256017B2Publication Date: 2022-02-22
- Inventor: Shotaro Watanabe , Naoki Ishimi , Yoshinori Ito , Tomokazu Shimoda
- Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Anan
- Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Anan
- Agency: Metrolex IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JPJP2016-246164 20161220
- Main IPC: F21V8/00
- IPC: F21V8/00 ; G02F1/01 ; G02F1/13357

Abstract:
To provide a technique for suppressing brightness non-uniformity of an area illuminated by a light source and also suppressing a decline in contrast between areas caused by incidence of a luminous flux of the area to another area. Provided is a light guide plate including: a diverging portion which is provided on an opposite side of a light exit surface from which light is emitted, the diverging portion causing a luminous flux emitted from a light emitting element to diverge; and a restricting portion which is provided, when a prescribed range from the light emitting element on the light exit surface is defined as an illuminated area illuminated by the light emitting element, in at least a periphery of the illuminated area on the light exit surface and which deflects or shields light traveling from inside toward outside of the illuminated area to restrict traveling, toward a side of the light exit surface, of light traveling toward the outside of the illuminated area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210041617A1 LIGHT GUIDE PLATE, PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-02-11
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