KR20130133569A - Back light unit and liquid crystal display comprising the same - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display including the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a backlight unit including a light guide plate on which an optical deflection portion and an optical deflection element are formed, and a light guide on which an uneven portion is formed. In the backlight unit of the present invention, the total reflection and the degree of refraction of the light emitted from the light source can be adjusted by adjusting the shape of the light deflection portion, the light deflection element, or the uneven portion.
Description
The present invention relates to a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display including the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a backlight unit including a light guide plate on which an optical deflection portion and an optical deflection element are formed, a light guide on which an uneven portion and a convex portion are formed, and a liquid crystal display including the same. The present invention can adjust the total reflection and the degree of refraction of the light emitted from the light source, it is possible to increase the brightness.
The backlight unit is a light emitting device included in a display element such as a liquid crystal display device. Such a backlight unit may be largely divided into an edge method and a direct method. The edge type backlight unit is mainly included in a small display element applied to a computer monitor and the like, and the direct type backlight unit is included in a large display element applied to an LCD TV and the like.
In the backlight unit, a light source is formed on the side of the light guide plate to draw light from the side portion to the light guide plate, or a part of the side portion is inserted to insert the light source into the light guide body. In such a structure, there has been a problem in controlling the efficiency of light because light from a light source is incident only on the light guide. In addition, elements that may affect reflection or refraction of light have been formed in the back and surface portions of the light guide. However, this method also has a limitation in adjusting the efficiency of light or increasing the brightness.
Related prior arts include Korean Patent No. 10-0793538 (name of the light guide plate).
An object of the present invention is to provide a backlight unit that can adjust the efficiency of light.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a backlight unit capable of increasing or decreasing the efficiency of light.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a backlight unit capable of increasing or decreasing luminance and making the emission angle small or large.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device including the backlight unit.
In one aspect, the backlight unit includes a light guide plate; And a rear surface portion formed on the light guide plate, into which the light emitted from the surface portion of the light guide plate enters, a surface portion which emits the light to the outside, and a side portion which connects the rear surface portion and the surface portion. A plurality of prisms that are triangular convex portions are formed, and the surface portion may include a light guide member having a plurality of prisms that are arc-shaped irregularities in cross section.
A liquid crystal display device according to another aspect of the present invention may include the backlight unit.
The present invention provides a backlight unit that can adjust the efficiency of light. In addition, the present invention provides a backlight unit capable of increasing luminance.
1 illustrates an embodiment of a backlight unit of the present invention.
Figure 2 shows an embodiment of the light guide plate of the present invention.
Figure 3 shows an embodiment of the light guide of the present invention.
4 is an enlarged cross section of the light guide of the present invention.
5A and 5B show the positional relationship between the bottom and the apex or the bottom and the bottom in a triangular convex prism and an arcuate uneven prism.
6 shows one embodiment of a partial schematic view of a light guide of the invention.
7 shows an embodiment of a cross-sectional view of the light guide of the present invention.
A backlight unit according to an aspect of the present invention may include a light guide plate and a light guide member, and a light guide body may be formed on the light guide plate.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7.
FIG. 1 shows a specific example of the backlight unit of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 show specific examples of the light guide plate and the light guide of the present invention, respectively.
According to FIG. 1, the backlight unit of the present invention may include a
The light guide plate and the light guide will be described in more detail below.
The light source 20 is formed on the side of the light guide plate so that light from the light source may be incident on the light guide plate and then emitted through the light guide. The light source can be a pseudo white, red, green or blue light emitting semiconductor light emitting element, a discharge type element, for example, indirect illumination, direct illumination, cold cathode fluorescent discharge tube (CCFL), or an array thereof, which is a semiconductor object. It is not limited to these.
The
The
The backlight unit of the present invention may include a
In the backlight unit, the uneven portion and the convex portion are formed in the front portion and the rear portion of the light guide body, respectively. Light propagated from the surface portion of the light guide plate is incident on the rear surface portion of the light guide body. The incident light is deflected on one inclined surface constituting the uneven portion formed on the rear surface portion of the light guide body, totally reflected on the other inclined surface opposite to the surface portion, and then deflected to the surface portion to proceed to light having a small emission angle. The light reaching the surface portion of the light guide may adjust the emission angle and the emission angle of the light emitted by being refracted by the convex portion formed on the surface portion.
As an example, the light emitted from the light source in the transverse direction of the light guide plate is emitted as light having a large emission angle and a small emission angle while passing through the light guide plate. The emitted light may be emitted as light having a small emission angle and a large emission angle while passing through the light guide.
Figure 2 shows an embodiment of the light guide plate of the present invention.
The
An
The shape of the light deflection portion is not particularly limited, but may be a part of a spherical shape, a part of an elliptic sphere shape, a triangular pyramid shape, a cone shape, a square pyramid shape, a triangular prism shape, a square pillar shape, a cylindrical shape, or the like. Preferably, the light deflection portion may have a triangular shape having an asymmetric cross section. The light deflecting portion may be formed of an
When the optical deflection portion has a triangular cross section, the pitch of the optical deflection portion may be 0.001-0.500 mm, preferably 0.01 to 0.1 mm.
The vertex angle formed by the inclined surface portion opposite to the inclined surface portion constituting the triangular shape as the optical deflection portion may be 80 to 175 °, and the angle between the
The
The shape of the optical deflecting element is not particularly limited, but may be a part of a spherical shape, a part of an elliptic spherical shape, a triangular pyramid shape, a cone shape, a square pyramid shape, a triangular prism shape, a square pillar shape, a cylindrical shape, or the like. Preferably, the optical deflecting element may have a lenticular shape.
In the lenticular optical deflecting element, the pitch may be 5 μm-100 μm and the radius of curvature may be 1 μm-320 μm. Within this range, it can have the effect of a widening angle. Preferably, the pitch may be 10 占 퐉 to 50 占 퐉, and the radius of curvature may be 1 占 퐉 to 50 占 퐉.
A
Figure 3 shows an embodiment of the light guide of the present invention.
The
A plurality of prisms having triangular
The prism of the convex portion and the prism of the uneven portion may be formed in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the light source is incident.
The light emitted from the surface portion of the light guide plate may pass through the convex portion formed on the rear surface portion of the light guide and the uneven portion formed on the surface portion, and thus the emission angle and the radiation angle may be adjusted.
For example, light having a large emission angle and a small emission angle emitted from the surface portion of the light guide plate is deflected and deflected on one inclined surface of the convex portion having a triangular cross section formed on the back surface portion of the light guide body, and totally reflected on another opposite inclined surface. It deflects toward the surface portion and proceeds to light having a small exit angle. The light that reaches the surface portion of the light guide may be refracted at the arcuate portion whose cross section is formed in the surface portion to be emitted as light having a large radiation angle. Therefore, the light emitted from the light source can be efficiently emitted to the light guide plate so that light having a large emission angle and small emission angle can be deflected to the light guide body in the vertical direction to emit light having a small emission angle and a small emission angle.
The emission angle and the radiation angle can be adjusted by adjusting the pitch and the inner angle of the prism having the triangular convex sections formed on the surface portion of the light guide. Further, the emission angle and the radiation angle can be adjusted by adjusting the pitch and the radius of curvature of the prism having the arc-shaped uneven portion formed in the rear surface of the light guide.
The thickness of the light guide may be 1-200 μm, preferably 50-100 μm.
4 illustrates an embodiment of a cross section of the light guide.
As shown in FIG. 4, the
Moreover, from the
In the light guide, the convex prism having a triangular cross section and the concave-convex prism having a circular cross section may be formed obliquely in the same direction, in the cross direction, or at an angle.
5A illustrates an embodiment in which the prism of the convex portion and the uneven portion of the prism of the light guide are formed in the same direction. As shown in FIG. 5A, the arc-shaped concave-
5B illustrates another embodiment in which the prism of the convex portion and the uneven portion of the prism of the light guide are formed in the same direction. As shown in FIG. 5B, an arc-shaped concave-convex portion and a triangular convex portion are formed in the same direction, and at the same time, a bottom of the
6 illustrates an embodiment in which the prism of the convex portion and the uneven portion of the prism are formed obliquely in the light guide. As shown in FIG. 6, the arrangement direction of the arc-shaped uneven portion prism may be formed at an inclination α of 1 to 15 ° with respect to the arrangement direction of the triangular convex portion prism. As a result, generation | occurrence | production of the moire by a triangular vertex part, a bottom part, and an arc-shaped uneven part can be prevented.
The heights of the triangular convex prisms formed on the rear surface of the light guide may be the same or different.
In addition, since the vertex portion of the convex prism of the light guide is not on one straight line, the line connecting the vertex portion may be curved. As shown in FIG. 7, the distance between the virtual reference dotted line B of the vertex portion and the rear portion of the
The light guide may be formed of a colorless transparent acrylic resin having a refractive index of 1.4-1.7, in particular polymethyl methacrylate, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyether sulfone, but is not limited thereto.
Although the brightness of the backlight unit of the present invention decreases the luminance by increasing the emission angle, the backlight unit has high luminance and light energy through condensing on the light guide plate, so that the luminance of the backlight unit may be somewhat higher than that of the two orthogonal prisms.
A liquid crystal display device according to another aspect of the present invention may include the backlight unit. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display including the backlight unit may use a conventional method known to those skilled in the art.
Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of the present invention through the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail. It is to be understood, however, that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed in a limiting sense.
The contents not described here are sufficiently technically inferior to those skilled in the art, and a description thereof will be omitted.
Example
The light guide plate was made of acrylic resin. The light guide plate had a pitch of 0.02 mm and a radius of curvature of 0.0323 mm in the lens section of the incident end portion. As for the light-guide plate, the lenticular optical deflecting element of the surface part was 31.5 micrometers in pitch, and the curvature radius was 35 micrometers. The light deflecting portion having a triangular cross-section of the rear surface of the light guide plate having a pitch of 0.0636 mm (distances from a vertex angle of 1.441 µm and 62.159 µm), a corner angle of 150 °, and another angle of 29.256 ° and 0.744 ° were used.
The light guide was made of an acrylic resin. The light guide had a thickness of 85 占 퐉, and the convex prism having a triangular cross section at the back surface had a pitch of 26 占 퐉 and an prism inner angle of 62 占. As for the uneven | corrugated part prism of the arc-shaped cross section of a surface part, the thing of pitch of 31.5 micrometers and the radius of curvature of 35 micrometers was used.
The light guide plate and the light guide were assembled to manufacture a backlight unit.
Comparative Example
The same components as the backlight unit used in the above embodiment were used as a reflector plate, LED, and frame, and only the light guide plate was used as a general printed light guide plate.
Luminance was measured for the liquid crystal display device including the backlight unit manufactured in Examples and Comparative Examples. Luminance was measured by the luminance meter BM-7, and the current was 20mA, the voltage was 3.044V, the brightness was 2.07cd, and the power was 365.28mW. 5 points at a pitch of 6.75 mm for the light source and 5 rows at a pitch of 12.9 mm were measured for all 25 points. The results are shown in Table 1 below.
As shown in Table 1, the backlight unit of the present invention has an increase in the average brightness and the maximum brightness compared to the backlight unit using a conventional printed light guide plate.
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It is formed on the light guide plate, and includes a back surface portion into which the light emitted from the light guide plate enters, a surface portion for emitting the light to the outside, and a side portion connecting the back surface portion and the surface portion, the back surface portion is triangular in shape A plurality of prisms formed of an in-convex portion are formed, and the surface unit includes a light guide member having a plurality of prisms formed of an uneven portion having an arc shape in cross section.
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