SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, DISPLAY DEVICE AND REFLECTION SHEET

    公开(公告)号:JP2002324420A

    公开(公告)日:2002-11-08

    申请号:JP2001119574

    申请日:2001-04-18

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a backlight unit having a high front luminance, which can suppress the occurrence of luminance irregularities. SOLUTION: The backlight unit has a light guide plate 20 and a reflection sheet 206 on the rear face of the light guide plate. The rear face of the light guide plate has a plurality of recessed patterns, which reflect and transmit light. The reflection sheet is a silver reflection sheet and plural posts as spacers are formed on the reflection sheet. Even when the reflection sheet is depressed, the spacers maintain a certain clearance between the rear face of the light guide plate and the reflection sheet. By maintaining the clearance, the occurrence of luminance irregularities on the surface of the backlight unit can be suppressed.

    LIGHT CONDUCTING DEVICE, BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:JP2001110218A

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-20

    申请号:JP28777699

    申请日:1999-10-08

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a backlight device capable of generating an output light spreading at an angle smaller than 10-degree FWHM, requiring a lower manufacturing cost and improving the usage efficiency of a light from a light source. SOLUTION: A backlight device has a wedged light conductor of refraction factor n1 having an upper face, a bottom face and side faces, a light source for applying a light to the side faces of the wedged light conductor, a first light transmissive layer of refraction factor n2, smaller than the refraction factor n1, having an upper face and a bottom face, the upper face of the first light transmissive layer being mounted on the bottom face of the wedged light conductor, and a light deflecting layer having an upper face mounted on the bottom face of the first transmissive layer for deflecting an incident light from the first light transmissive layer toward the upper face of the wedged light conductor.

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