Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Display device with light guide element overlapping peripherial display region of display panel
- Patent Title (中): 显示装置与导光元件重叠显示面板的外围显示区域
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Application No.: US13256464Application Date: 2010-03-15
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Publication No.: US08690414B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Takuma Tomotoshi , Hisashi Watanabe
- Applicant: Takuma Tomotoshi , Hisashi Watanabe
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Keating & Bennett, LLP
- Priority: JP2009-067039 20090318
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/001836 WO 20100315
- International Announcement: WO2010/106782 WO 20100923
- Main IPC: G09F13/08
- IPC: G09F13/08 ; G02F1/13357

Abstract:
A plurality of display panels include a display region and a frame region. The plurality of display panels include first and second display panels adjoining each other; the frame region of the first display panel is overlapped by a side face of the second display panel so that an angle defined by viewer-side surfaces is more than 0° but less than 180°; first and second light guide elements are disposed on the viewer's side of peripheral display regions; the light guide elements have incident and outgoing faces and a plurality of light guiding portions; the distance between the incident and outgoing faces increases away from the peripheral display region toward the frame region; the volume of the first light guide element is larger than that of the second light guide element; and the outgoing faces of the first and second light guide elements are covered by a functional film.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120008340A1 DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-01-12
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