KR101620021B1 - Method for manufacturing light guide plate with pattern and light guide plate manufactured using thereof - Google Patents
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Description
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a light guide plate for pattern formation and a light guide plate manufactured thereby.
In general, since a liquid crystal display (LCD) is a light-receiving element that can not emit light itself, unlike a CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube), a backlight unit capable of maintaining uniform brightness throughout the liquid crystal display need.
The backlight unit includes a light source for generating light and a light guide plate for supplying light generated from the light source to the liquid crystal panel.
The light guide plate is a light switching element that receives light from a plurality of point light sources from an LED light source disposed on a side surface, converts light incident from the LED light source into total light through total internal reflection, and emits the light upward. The LED light source may be configured as an LED array in which a plurality of LED packages are mounted on a substrate at regular intervals.
The light incident from the LED light source into the light guide plate has an uneven light distribution through reflection, refraction, transmission, and the like, and a pattern is formed on the light guide plate to uniformize the light and minimize light loss.
Further, since the LED light source disposed on the side surface of the light guide plate is a point light source and has a high light directivity, a portion having a high light intensity is present at a portion close to the LED light source, while a light portion appears at a portion distant from the LED light source. As a result, there arises a problem that the uniformity of the luminance is lowered on the display screen of the liquid crystal display device. In order to solve such a problem, the diameter of the light-incoming portion of the light guide plate is made smaller or the density is lowered, and the diameter of the dot is increased or the density is increased toward the central region and the light-
On the other hand, in a backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device, a reflective sheet, a prism sheet, and a diffusion sheet are used to uniformly diffuse light while reducing light loss.
The reflective sheet is disposed on the lower side of the light guide plate and reflects light leaking from the light guide plate to the lower side to improve the brightness of the backlight device.
The prism sheet concentrates light so that light emitted from the light guide plate at various output angles can be advanced in the upward direction, thereby improving the luminance in the vertical direction.
The diffusion sheet diffuses the light emitted from the light guide plate and the prism sheet primarily and secondarily so that finally uniform light is emitted.
In such a backlight device, since a plurality of optical sheets including a diffusion sheet and a prism sheet are used to control optical characteristics such as brightness and uniformity, the slimming of the backlight device is hindered due to the stacking of many optical sheets, There is a problem to be done.
In the backlight device according to the conventional technique, the light emitted is focused only on the vertical upper side. In this case, a high luminance can be exhibited in the vertical direction of the backlight device, but the luminance is relatively low in the side direction, which causes a problem that the viewing angle becomes narrow.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a light guide plate capable of reducing the light loss of the backlight unit and improving the brightness through diffusion of light, thereby reducing the number of optical sheets stacked on the upper surface of the light guide plate And to provide a light guide plate for pattern formation which can exhibit a wide viewing angle and a light guide plate manufactured thereby.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a light guide plate for forming a pattern, the method comprising the steps of: Forming a cross-shaped engraved pattern by further embossing the longitudinal bytes so that the crossbot is superimposed on the embossed position in the mold; Forming a light guide plate using the mold having the engraved pattern formed thereon to form a relief pattern corresponding to the engraved pattern on a lower surface of the light guide plate; Wherein the horizontal byte and the vertical byte have a prism shape.
In addition, the vertical bytes are oriented so as to be superimposed on the center of the position where the horizontal bytes are embossed.
Further, in the horizontal byte and the vertical byte, a section passing through the center in the longitudinal direction has a trapezoidal shape, and a section passing through the center in the width direction has a triangular shape.
Also, the angle b of the horizontal byte and the angle c of the vertical byte are 60 °, 120 ° or 120 ° and 60 °, respectively.
A light guide plate according to another embodiment of the present invention is manufactured according to the light guide plate manufacturing method.
In the light guide plate according to another embodiment of the present invention, a horizontal long pattern in the shape of a boss and a long vertical pattern in the form of a cross over the horizontal pattern are formed on the lower surface of the light guide plate, Shape.
In the horizontal pattern and the vertical pattern, the cross section passing through the center in the longitudinal direction has a trapezoidal shape, and the cross section passing through the center in the width direction has a triangular shape.
The angle (e) of the horizontal pattern and the angle (f) of the vertical pattern are 60 °, 120 ° or 120 ° and 60 °, respectively.
According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the number of optical sheets stacked on the upper surface of the light guide plate by improving the brightness through diffusion of light while reducing the light loss of the backlight unit by forming a composite pattern having a cross pattern and a cross pattern in the light guide plate And at the same time, a wide viewing angle can be provided, and a light guide plate manufactured by the method can be provided.
1A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA 'in FIG. 1A, and FIG. 1B is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA' in FIG. 1A. FIGS. 1A to 1C are cross- 1c is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB 'of FIG. 1a.
FIG. 2A is a plan view of a vertical byte, FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view taken along line CC 'of FIG. 2A, and FIG. 2c is a sectional view taken along the line DD 'in FIG. 2A.
FIGS. 3A to 3C are views showing a state in which a horizontal byte and a vertical byte are combined for pattern formation according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3A is a plan view of a state in which a horizontal byte and a vertical byte are combined, 3A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line EE 'of FIG. 3A, and FIG. 3C is a cross-sectional view taken along the line FF' of FIG. 3A.
FIG. 4A is a schematic cross-sectional view of a conventional light guide plate, and FIG. 4B is a schematic cross-sectional view of a light guide plate having a composite pattern according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5A to 5D are views sequentially illustrating a method of manufacturing a light guide plate for pattern formation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a perspective view illustrating a composite pattern formed on a light guide plate according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an enlarged photograph of a light guide plate having a composite pattern according to an embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements throughout the drawings.
1A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA 'in FIG. 1A, and FIG. 1B is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA' in FIG. 1A. FIGS. 1A to 1C are cross- 1c is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB 'of FIG. 1a.
FIG. 2A is a plan view of a vertical byte, FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view taken along line CC 'of FIG. 2A, and FIG. 2c is a sectional view taken along the line DD 'in FIG. 2A.
FIGS. 3A to 3C are views showing a state in which a horizontal byte and a vertical byte are combined for pattern formation according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3A is a plan view of a state in which a horizontal byte and a vertical byte are combined, 3A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line EE 'of FIG. 3A, and FIG. 3C is a cross-sectional view taken along the line FF' of FIG. 3A.
A method of manufacturing a light guide plate for pattern formation according to the present invention is to form a cross-shaped composite pattern on the lower surface of a light guide plate to improve the brightness of a backlight unit and to exhibit a wide viewing angle. Here, the lower surface of the light guide plate refers to a surface opposite to the light emitting surface through the backlight unit.
To this end, in the present invention, a cruciform composite pattern is embossed at an engraved pattern by using a lateral bite and a longitudinal bite in a mold for manufacturing a light guide plate, and a light guide plate is formed by using such a mold, Thereby forming a composite pattern of a relief shape corresponding to the composite pattern of FIG.
First, a
1A to 1C, the
2A to 2C, the
3A to 3C, a
In order to form the engraved
4A is a schematic cross-sectional view of a conventional
In the conventional
In contrast, in the
5A to 5D are views sequentially illustrating a method of manufacturing a light guide plate for pattern formation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
First, referring to FIG. 5A, a
Next, referring to FIG. 5B, the
Next, referring to FIG. 5C, a
5D, the
6 is a perspective view showing a composite pattern formed on a lower surface of the
In the
7 is an enlarged photograph of a light guide plate having a composite pattern according to an embodiment of the present invention. As described above, the cross-shaped composite patterns are formed on the lower surface of the
Such a composite pattern can uniformly diffuse the condensed light to the upper side to dispense with a diffusion sheet, and arrange the cross patterns randomly, thereby suppressing the generation of interference fringes.
In addition, the composite pattern makes use of total reflection and refraction, not scattering, to obtain higher luminance quality than a screen using scattering.
Therefore, when the
The following table shows the luminance through the backlight unit using such a light guide plate by changing the angle b of the
Here, the unit of luminance is knit (nit = cd / m < 2 >) and Center refers to the front surface of the backlight unit. When center is 90 °, Area A + refers to 80 °, Area A refers to 50 °, and Area B refers to 40 °.
Referring to Table 1, when the angle b of the
Therefore, when the
Table 2 shows the luminance characteristics of the backlight unit using the light guide plate of the present invention in the entire viewing angle range. Here, Ref. Refers to a backlight unit using a conventional light guide plate having a semicircular protrusion, and WS refers to a backlight unit using the light guide plate of the present invention.
Referring to Table 2, when the front face of the backlight unit is set to 0 DEG, the luminance of the backlight unit of the present invention is 25% and 21% at the right and left viewing angles of 30 DEG in comparison with the conventional backlight units at the respective viewing angles of left and right It can be confirmed that the luminance is improved and the luminance is improved by 20 to 40% at an angle of 30 degrees or more.
The angle b of the horizontal byte and the angle c of the vertical byte correspond to the angle h of the
As described above, according to the method of manufacturing the light guide plate of the present invention and the light guide plate manufactured by the method, by forming the composite pattern in which the
Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the number of optical sheets stacked on the upper side of the light guide plate, to make the backlight unit slim, to reduce the manufacturing cost, and to have a wide viewing angle.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention will be.
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102: Vertical pattern
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120: Vertical byte
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A method for manufacturing a light guide plate, comprising the steps of:
Forming a cross-shaped engraved pattern by further embossing the longitudinal bytes so that the crossbot is superimposed on the embossed position in the mold;
Forming a light guide plate using the mold having the engraved pattern formed thereon to form a relief pattern corresponding to the engraved pattern on a lower surface of the light guide plate;
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Wherein the horizontal byte and the vertical byte have a prism shape,
Wherein the vertical bytes are oriented so as to be superposed on the center of the position where the horizontal bytes are embossed,
Wherein a cross section passing through the center in the longitudinal direction of the horizontal byte and the vertical byte has a trapezoidal shape and a cross section passing through the center of the width direction has a triangular shape.
Wherein the angle b of the horizontal byte and the angle c of the vertical byte are 60 °, 120 °, 120 °, and 60 °, respectively.
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