KR20120082560A - Backlight assembly and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents
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Abstract
A high quality backlight assembly with high light efficiency and minimal thickness and a method of manufacturing the same are proposed. The proposed backlight assembly includes a light guide plate including a light source, a light guide plate that guides the light from the light source to a light exit surface, and a reflector that reflects light on an opposite side of the light exit surface, and is formed on an upper surface of the light guide plate to diffuse light. And a retroreflective optical sheet on which a micropattern is transferred on at least one surface of the plate and the diffusion plate side.
Description
The present invention relates to a backlight assembly and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to a high quality backlight assembly with a high light efficiency and a minimum thickness and a method for manufacturing the same.
In the information display technology, the display device has occupied a position that CRT has been unique for more than half a century, but in the rapidly evolving information age, a larger and thinner display technology is required. As a result, flat panel display technology that can be enlarged and thinned has been developed. Liquid crystal display (LCD), projection display, and plasma display (PDP) have become mainstream, and field emission display (FED) and electroluminescent display ( ELD) has been developed along with the improvement of related technologies.
Compared with CRTs, LCDs are flat and large in size, and thus their use is expanding in display fields such as monitors and TVs, accounting for 80% of the flat panel market. The LCD includes a panel in which a liquid crystal and an electrode matrix are disposed between a pair of light absorbing optical films. In an LCD, the liquid crystal portion moves the liquid crystal portion by an electric field generated by applying a voltage to two electrodes, thereby having an optical state that is changed, and displaying an image using a polarized light in a specific direction. . Thus, the LCD includes a front optical film and a back optical film that induce polarization.
Since the LCD is not a self-luminous display, but a non-luminous display, it uses a light generated from the backlight including the backlight. The light emitted from the backlight passes through the liquid crystal panel, and at this time, light absorption by various components such as an optical film is issued, resulting in low light utilization efficiency. In order to increase light utilization efficiency, an optical sheet for improving brightness is positioned between the backlight and the liquid crystal panel.
A retroreflective optical sheet may be used as the optical sheet for improving luminance. The retroreflective optical sheet transmits part of light emitted from the backlight and reflects part of the optical sheet back to the optical sheet by the reflector on the backlight to improve light efficiency. Increase In order to further improve the light efficiency of the retroreflective optical sheet, several separate optical sheets may be attached and used. However, in general, since the optical sheet is provided with the base layer, when the optical sheet is added, unnecessary substrate layers necessarily provided with each optical sheet may be stacked together. Therefore, it has been pointed out that a problem that adversely affects the increase in light efficiency due to the increase in thickness due to the unnecessary substrate layer and the optical loss due to the optical properties of the substrate layer material.
The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a high quality backlight assembly with a high light efficiency and a minimum thickness and a manufacturing method thereof.
The backlight assembly according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is a light source; A light guide plate for guiding the light from the light source to the emission surface and including a reflection plate reflecting light on an opposite surface of the emission surface; A diffusion plate formed on an upper surface of an emission surface of the light guide plate to diffuse light; And a retroreflective optical sheet having a micro pattern transferred to at least one surface formed on an emission surface side of the diffusion plate.
The micro pattern may be at least one of a positive lens type, a negative lens type, and a prism type, and the micro pattern may include a UV curable resin. In this case, the refractive index of the UV curable resin may be 1.46 to 1.48, or the refractive index of the UV curable resin may be 1.55 to 1.57.
It is preferable that the thickness of a micropattern is 5-25 micrometers.
According to another aspect of the invention, the step of having a light source on one surface, the diffusion plate for diffusing the light on the light guide plate for guiding the light exit from the light source to the upper surface of the light emitting plate; And positioning a retroreflective optical sheet on which at least one surface of the micropattern has been transferred is located on the emission surface side of the diffuser plate.
Applying a retro-reflective optical sheet to one surface of the UV curable resin; Contacting the micro pattern mold corresponding to the shape of the micro pattern with the UV curable resin; Irradiating UV; And separating the micro pattern mold; the micro pattern may be transferred onto one surface. At this time, the micro pattern mold to form a micro pattern master of the same shape as the micro pattern; And forming a micro-pattern mold using the micro-pattern master. The micro pattern mold may be formed from the micro pattern master using a pre-plating method or a soft molding method.
The retroreflective optical sheet may further include pressing and heating a micro pattern mold corresponding to the shape of the micropattern to closely adhere to the retroreflective optical sheet; And separating the micro pattern mold; the micro pattern may be transferred onto one surface. At this time, the heating temperature may be 90 ℃ to 120 ℃.
The backlight assembly according to the present invention includes a micro pattern transferred directly onto the retroreflective optical sheet, so that the light loss can be minimized while the thickness of the backlight assembly can be minimized.
1 is a cross-sectional view of a backlight assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2A through 2E are cross-sectional views of a retroreflective optical sheet according to various embodiments of the present disclosure.
3A to 3C are views provided to explain a method of manufacturing a retroreflective optical sheet in a method of manufacturing a backlight assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4A to 4C are views provided to explain a method of manufacturing a retroreflective optical sheet in a method of manufacturing a backlight assembly according to another embodiment of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, embodiments of the present invention may be modified in various other forms, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below. Embodiments of the present invention are provided to more fully describe the present invention to those skilled in the art. In the accompanying drawings, there may be a component having a specific pattern or having a predetermined thickness, but this is for convenience of description or distinction. It is not limited only.
1 is a cross-sectional view of a backlight assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention. The
The
The
The retroreflective
The retroreflective
The
The
Therefore, when the
2A through 2E are cross-sectional views of a retroreflective optical sheet according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. In the present invention, at least one surface of the retroreflective optical sheet may transfer a micro pattern that collects and diffuses light, and the micro pattern may have a lens shape or a prism shape.
In FIG. 1, the prism-shaped
In the retroreflective
2A to 2E, when transferring the micropatterns of various shapes onto the retroreflective optical sheet, the light collecting and light diffusing functions of the micropatterns according to the shapes may be selected and implemented. In addition, the micro-patterns having different shapes may be transferred onto the upper and lower surfaces of the retroreflective optical sheet, thereby retaining functions corresponding to the micro-patterns. In FIGS. 2A to 2E, one shape of the micropattern is transferred to one surface of the retroreflective optical sheet, but various shapes of the micropattern may be transferred onto one plane. A process of transferring the micropattern on the retroreflective optical sheet will be described below with reference to FIGS. 3A to 3C.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method includes: providing a light source on one surface and placing a diffuser plate on an emission surface side of the light guide plate to diffuse light onto the light guide plate that guides the light from the light source to the emission surface; And positioning a retroreflective optical sheet on which at least one surface of the micropattern has been transferred is located on the emission surface side of the diffuser plate.
In this embodiment, in order to manufacture the backlight assembly, the light source is first placed on one surface of the light guide plate. The light source is positioned at the side of the light guide plate in the case of the edge type according to the type of the backlight assembly, and on the opposite side of the emission surface, which is the surface from which light is emitted, in the case of the direct type. A diffuser plate is positioned on the exit surface side of the light guide plate so that the light is uniformly distributed.
The retroreflective optical sheet is placed on the top of the diffuser plate. In the retroreflective optical sheet, a micro pattern is transferred onto at least one surface.
3A to 3C are views provided to explain a method of manufacturing a retroreflective optical sheet, in particular, in a method of manufacturing a backlight assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method of transferring the micropattern on the retroreflective optical sheet may be any method as long as the substrate layer for the micropattern is not added and the micropattern is directly formed on the retroreflective optical sheet. It uses UV imprinting, which is relatively simple and allows for accurate pattern formation at low cost. In the UV imprinting method, a pattern is formed using a UV curable material, and UV is cured by irradiating UV to form a micro pattern.
In FIG. 3A, a UV curable resin is coated on the retroreflective
The
The
When the
The thickness of the
4A to 4C are views provided to explain a method of manufacturing a retroreflective optical sheet in a method of manufacturing a backlight assembly according to another embodiment of the present invention.
In this embodiment, the micropattern is directly transferred onto the surface of the retroreflective
In this case, the heating temperature for bringing the
The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following.
[Example]
A backlight assembly having a retroreflective optical sheet according to the present invention and a backlight assembly having a retroreflective optical sheet according to the prior art were manufactured as follows.
Example 1
A backlight assembly employing a direct-type LED on a light guide plate having a size of 100 mm x 100 mm x 30 mm was manufactured, and a retroreflective pattern in which a positive lens-shaped micropattern (50 μm in diameter, 25 μm in height and a refractive index of 1.500) was directly transferred onto the light guide plate. The type optical sheet (thickness 400 mu m) was placed.
Comparative Example 1
On the retroreflective optical sheet, a micro pattern layer having a micro pattern formed on a substrate layer (PET, thickness of 100 μm) was laminated, thereby fabricating a backlight assembly similar to Example 1 except that a micro pattern was formed.
[evaluation]
The backlight assembly according to Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 was evaluated using LightTools, an optical simulation program, and the results are as follows.
As shown in Table 1, in Comparative Example 1, since the loss of light occurred as the base layer having a thickness of 100 μm was separately present between the retroreflective optical sheet and the micropattern, the luminance was much lower. On the other hand, the backlight assembly of Example 1, in which the micropattern was directly transferred onto the retroreflective optical sheet, exhibited a high luminance value by minimizing light loss, and the thickness of the substrate layer (100 μm) was larger than that of Comparative Example 1. It can be seen that a thinner backlight assembly can be realized.
The invention is not to be limited by the foregoing embodiments and the accompanying drawings, but should be construed by the appended claims. In addition, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various forms of substitution, modification, and alteration are possible within the scope of the present invention without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention.
100 backlight assembly
110 light source
120 reflector
130 light guide plate
140 diffuser plate
150, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 350, 450 Retroreflective Optical Sheet
160, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 360, 460 micro patterns
370 UV Curable Resin Layer
380, 480 Micro Pattern Mold
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A light guide plate guiding the light from the light source to an emission surface to reflect light to an opposite surface of the emission surface;
A diffusion plate formed on an upper surface of an emission surface of the light guide plate to diffuse light; And
And a retroreflective optical sheet formed on an exit surface side of the diffuser plate and having a micro pattern transferred to at least one surface thereof.
And the micro pattern is at least one of a positive lens type, a negative lens type, and a prism type.
And the micro pattern comprises a UV curable resin.
The refractive index of the UV curable resin is 1.46 to 1.48, characterized in that the backlight assembly.
The refractive index of the UV curable resin is 1.55 to 1.57, characterized in that the backlight assembly.
The thickness of the micro pattern is a backlight assembly, characterized in that 5 to 25㎛.
And placing a retroreflective optical sheet on which at least one surface of the micropattern has been transferred is located on an exit surface side of the diffusion plate.
The retroreflective optical sheet,
Applying a UV curable resin to one surface;
Contacting the micro pattern mold corresponding to the shape of the micro pattern with the UV curable resin;
Irradiating UV; And
Separating the micro pattern mold; and performing a micro pattern transfer to one surface of the backlight assembly.
The micro pattern mold,
Forming a micro pattern master having the same shape as the micro pattern; And
And forming the micro pattern mold using the micro pattern master.
The micro pattern mold is formed from the micro pattern master using a pre-plating method or a soft molding method.
The retroreflective optical sheet,
Pressing and heating a micro pattern mold corresponding to the shape of the micro pattern to closely adhere to the retroreflective optical sheet; And
Separating the micro pattern mold; and performing a micro pattern transfer to one surface of the backlight assembly.
The heating temperature is
Method for manufacturing a backlight assembly, characterized in that 90 ℃ to 120 ℃.
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