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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination cover and an illumination device in which cleaning is easy, manufacturing cost is low and efficiency is high.SOLUTION: An illumination device includes: a light source 3; and an illumination cover 2 arranged facing the light source and becoming a light emitting surface. The illumination cover has: an inner surface 2a facing the light source; an outer surface 2b facing outside; and a plurality of prisms 10 formed on the outer surface. The prism has at least one inclined surface which inclines with respect to the inner surface, the angle of inclination of the inclined surface of the prism is at least 12 to 42 degrees on average, and when an angle formed with a normal line direction of the illumination cover 2 is defined as θ, the ratio of light intensity in the direction of θ=60-90 degrees with respect to the light intensity in the direction of θ=0 degree is equal to or less than 20%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a blind member and a window member capable of shielding sunlight at a high angle while ensuring the transparency of a window.SOLUTION: A sheet-like blind member has two or more shielding/transmitting layers disposed facing to each other being interposed by a predetermined distance. Each of the shielding/transmitting layers has plural light shielding strips 4a and 4b and plural transmission strips 5a and 5b which are disposed alternately in a height direction. The two or more shielding/transmitting layers are formed with identical phase in the height direction. Defining the width of the light shielding strip as Wb, the predetermined distance as T and an angle of a light beam entering an upper part of the window at a critical angle forming with a normal direction of the window inside the blind member as α, Wb
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting device capable of controlling an irradiation region free from generation of multi-shadow.SOLUTION: The lighting device includes: a plurality of light sources 3 each having light distribution with strong directionality in a normal line and disposed side by side on a plane surface; a plurality of collimator lenses 4 each set opposite to the light source and focusing light emitted from the light sources; and a lens part 5 that emits the focused light toward more outside relative to the center of a light source group comprising the plurality of light sources as the distance from the center is larger.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting device of a bulb shape which can provide high light intensity in the lateral surface direction even when using an LED light source or the like, can provide visual quality such as a filament lamp or a candle by using the LED light source.SOLUTION: A lighting device of a bulb shape includes: a substrate 2 having a top face; a light source 4 arranged on a substrate top face 2a; an optical component 5 which is formed in a dome shape having a lower end opening 5a, has the lower end opening side fixed to the substrate top face and covers a light source therewith; and a translucent cover 6 which is fixed to the substrate top face, covers the light source and the optical component therewith and has transparency. The optical component is formed such that a thickness of a wall part is smaller than the diameter of the lower end opening. The optical component has a plurality of prisms 10 disposed on the whole region of a dome inner surface to which light from the light source is made incident or a dome outer surface from which light is released to an external part, the prisms change a latitude direction angle of light beam made incident to the southern hemisphere direction of the optical component when a dome vertex T of the optical component is set as north pole and emit the light and a virtual image of the light source is formed on a position floated up from the substrate top face when being viewed through the optical component.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting device capable of uniformly irradiating the light of a light source.SOLUTION: A lighting device is provided with a base material 2, a light source with directivity mounted on the base material for releasing visible rays, and a translucent cover 5 covering at least a front face of the light source 4 and equipped with a light-transmitting region for releasing light emitted from the light source outside. The translucent cover has faces headed for a plurality of different directions, and the transmitting region is formed of a material containing a scattering filler with the transmittance of 70% or lower.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flat lamp device enhancing luminance characteristics and still having very thin thickness.SOLUTION: A flat lamp device is provided with a flat body 10 including a central convex part 2a located at the center of a front face part and protruding upward and a peripheral part 2b located around the central convex part and lower than the central convex part, a plurality of light sources 4, which are located on the peripheral part of the flat body and each have a light distribution with strong directivity in a normal direction, a drive circuit 20 housed inside the central convex part inside the flat body, and a translucent cover 6 for covering the light sources.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting system capable of emitting light on a side-face or a rear-face direction and easy to manufacture.SOLUTION: The lighting system includes a base material 2, a light source 6 emitting visible light, and a translucent cover 4 covering at least a front face of the light source and equipped with a translucent region for emitting light emitted from the light source toward outside. The light source is arranged at a front-face flat part 2a of the base material, wherein a luminous intensity of light emitted from the light source is strong in a normal direction of the front-face flat part. The light source has a directivity getting zero at a rear-face side. The translucent region of the translucent cover has a rear-face side translucent region 8b positioned either at side faces or at a rear face side of the light source, with an outward normal direction headed further toward a rear-face rather than a side-face direction. Further, transmittance at a front-face side translucent region 8a of the translucent region is formed lower than that at the rear-face side translucent region.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting device having high design flexibility for a thin design, high efficiency, and luminance distribution, and a liquid crystal display device capable of attaining high image quality and power-saving.SOLUTION: The lighting device includes a plurality of light sources arranged at two dimensions, at least one layer of a diffusion layer arranged by facing the plurality of light sources, and at least one layer of a semi-transmissive reflection layer 4 arranged between the plurality of light sources and the diffusion layer. The semi-transmissive reflection layer most separated from the light source has a pattern made from a plurality of transmission sections 10 or a plurality of reflection sections 11. This pattern is a pattern respectively made from a plurality of transmission sections having hole shapes at a range near the light source, and is a pattern made from a plurality of reflection sections having dot shapes at a range far from the light source.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface illumination device which can prevent luminance gradation deterioration and contrast deterioration even if dimming at every range and hardly visually recognize range unevenness of the dimming, and to provide a liquid crystal display device having the surface illumination device. SOLUTION: The surface illumination device has a plurality of light sources 16, and a diffusion layer 14 for receiving light of the light sources. The diffusion layer is arranged in a contactless state to the light sources, and when the shortest distance from the light source to the diffusion layer is set as D, the distance has a relationship of D≤8 mm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a planar lighting device which attains both reduced thickness and power saving, and has excellent luminance uniformity in a partial drive system such as local dimming. SOLUTION: The planar lighting device includes a plurality of light sources, a lower surface reflecting layer and a light diffusion layer opposed thereto. At least two or more light guide layers or at least two or more reflection layers which partially transmit light are disposed between the light sources and the light diffusion layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT