KR20170084882A - Crystal backlight unit - Google Patents
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Abstract
A transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate is disclosed. In the transparent backlight unit having the edge type prism light guide plate to which the at least one LED light source of the present invention is applied, the asymmetric prism pattern is arranged on one side of the longitudinal direction of the light guide plate on which the light of the LED light source is incident, The reflective sheet is removed by applying a highly efficient light guide plate oriented at a certain angle, and the transparent display can be implemented. Thus, the present invention can be applied to various product groups, There is an effect of reducing the material cost.
Description
The present invention relates to a transparent backlight unit, more particularly, to a prism pattern formed on one side surface of a light guide plate so that light incident from an LED is vertically emitted, and an image of an object behind the light guide plate is clearly projected To a transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate.
In general, a display device has a large display area, is light in weight to increase mobility, and requires a small size in order to increase portability.
The LCD display device has a tendency to replace all CRT display devices because of its excellent image quality, light weight, thinness, and low power consumption. Especially, the LCD display device is adopted in devices requiring mobility and portability such as notebook computers and mobile phones.
However, since the LCD display device is non-luminous, it can not display visual information itself, and an external light source must be separately provided. A backlight unit device has been developed which supplies a planar light source of uniform luminance according to such necessity.
The backlight unit includes a light source, a light guide plate, and a reflector, and is divided into an edge type and a direct type by a method of arranging a light source.
Since the edge type backlight unit device has a light source disposed on a side surface of the light guide plate, it has a relatively thin structure and is mainly used in devices requiring small size, light weight and thinness such as portable equipment.
The direct-type backlight device has a relatively thick thickness because the light source is disposed on the bottom surface of the light guide plate. However, since the light efficiency is excellent, the quality of the displayed information is enhanced. Therefore, it is mainly used in a device requiring a large screen such as a TV monitor.
Hereinafter, a light guide plate using an edge type backlight unit will be mainly described.
The light guide plate according to the related art is incident on the light of a point light source or a linear light source incident from a light source disposed on a side surface and scattered in the interior thereof to have a relatively small area area to be converted and emitted into a planar light source.
Particularly, since the brightness is uneven in the state of being converted into the surface light source, the difference in brightness occurs partially, and since the effective area is small, it is difficult to increase the width of the effective screen for displaying information, .
In order to increase the effective area of the planar light source, the light scattering should be performed well inside the main body, and in order that the scattering can be performed well, the total reflection and diffuse reflection It should be smoothly performed, and the luminance should not be unnecessarily attenuated in the light emission path.
In the prior art, polymethyl methacrylate acrylic resin (PMMA: Poly-Methyl Methacrylate) was used as a material of the light guide plate body, and a groove formed by V-shaped cutting was formed on the lower surface of the body so as to scatter light, A diffusion plate, a horizontal and a vertical prism plate, and the like were attached to the upper surface of the light guide plate main body in order to uniformly emit light to the planar light source.
However, in the conventional technique, there is a problem that the time and cost for V-shaped cutting are large and the occurrence of defects increases.
On the other hand, a manufacturing process for attaching a diffuser plate, a prism plate, and the like to the upper surface of the light guide plate main body is complicated, and the production time is prolonged, and the cost increases.
Further, there is a problem that it is difficult to widen the area of the planar light source that is attenuated and diffused in a continuous manner at the interface separating the materials such as the main body of the light guide plate, the diffuser plate, the prism plate, and the like.
Therefore, it is necessary to develop a technique for simplifying the manufacturing process of the edge type light guide plate, reducing the production time, and improving the quality of the displayed information without the difference in contrast.
Particularly, it is necessary to develop a technique for simplifying the entire configuration of the edge type light guide plate and preventing unnecessary attenuation of the brightness of the surface light source in the process of emitting light.
Meanwhile, in recent years, studies have been made actively on a transparent liquid crystal display device in which a user can view an object or an image located on the opposite side through a liquid crystal display device.
Such a transparent liquid crystal display device has advantages of space utilization, interior and design, and can have various application fields.
In particular, in a transparent liquid crystal display device, a transparent liquid crystal display device capable of clearly distinguishing objects or images located on the opposite side and capable of realizing an image realized from a liquid crystal display device more clearly is desired.
In order to solve such problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a transparent backlight unit including a prism light guide plate capable of removing a reflective sheet by applying a high efficiency light guide plate and realizing a transparent display.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate capable of reducing a material cost in various product groups compared to a conventional transparent display.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate for forming a pattern having a specific angle on one side of a light guide plate, which is a vertical direction in which a light source of an LED package is incident, The purpose.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a transparent backlight unit device having a prism light guide plate having a prism pattern formed asymmetrically on a light guide plate.
In order to solve such a problem, a transparent backlight unit having an edge type prism light guide plate to which one or more LED light sources according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied includes an edge type backlight unit to which at least one LED light source is applied, The asymmetric prism pattern may be arranged on one side of the longitudinal direction of the light guide plate in a shape selected from an engraved angle and an embossed angle so that the light of the inserted light source is emitted to the other side.
Also, the light guide plate is made of a transparent plastic or glass material having a transmittance of 80% or more and a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.8, and the asymmetric prism pattern is formed of acute triangles having acute angles .
In addition, acute angle triangles (formed by vertexes A, B, and C) are formed such that one side (BC side) contacts one side surface of the light guide plate, and two sides (AB sides, AC side) (AB side) and the AC side are different from each other, or one side (BC side) is in contact with one side surface of the light guide plate, and the other side (AB side, AC side) It is preferable that the angle formed by the AC transition is 30 ° to 70 °.
The angle between the AB side and the AC side is such that an imaginary line is connected to the vertex A perpendicular to the BC side and an angle between the virtual line and the AB side and the AC side is 0 ° to 10 ° do.
The backlight unit according to the present invention can be applied to various product groups by implementing a transparent display by removing a reflective sheet by applying a highly efficient light guide plate oriented at a certain angle and reducing the material cost compared to the conventional display.
And the light emitted by the LED light source is led to the front surface of the backlight unit, that is, the light is emitted perpendicularly, thereby improving the front exit light luminance.
FIG. 1 is a view illustrating a structure of a transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
FIGS. 2 and 3 are cross-sectional views showing a light exit path of the light guide plate of the present invention,
And,
4 is an enlarged view of the prism pattern of the present invention.
It is to be understood that the words or words used in the present specification and claims are not to be construed in a conventional or dictionary sense and that the inventor can properly define the concept of a term in order to describe its invention in the best possible way And should be construed in light of the meanings and concepts consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.
Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise. Also, the terms "part," "unit," "module," "device," "unit," and the like are used in the description to mean at least one unit for processing a function or an operation. Lt; / RTI >
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.
As shown, the
In the transparent TFT-
Since the transparent TFT-
The
For example, transparent PMMA (PolymethylMethacrylate) having a refractive index of 1.49 and transparent PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) having a refractive index of 1.64 can be used.
The light guiding
That is, the light emitted by the
The
The
The
The blue light emitted from the
The
That is, the light incident from the
Here, the light emitted from the
The transparent TFT-
Specifically, the
Particularly, a prism pattern is formed on the
The
By improving the light efficiency of the backlight unit as described above, it is possible not only to realize an image to be implemented in the transparent TFT-
For this purpose, the
Referring to an enlarged view of the prism pattern of the present invention shown in FIG. 4, the top view is a top view of the pattern, and the bottom view is a side view of the pattern.
As shown in the figure, a prism pattern is formed by an acute angle triangle (formed by vertices A, B, and C), and one side (BC side) contacts the
Referring to the drawing, a
That is, one side (BC side) is in contact with the
When the angle between the AB side and the AC side is less than 30 degrees, the incident light 'a' passes through the
When the angle between the AB side and the AC side is 60 degrees or more, the incident light 'a' is totally reflected in the
More specifically, when an imaginary line at the vertex A is connected perpendicularly to the BC side, the angle formed by the AB side and the AC side is such that the angle Aa formed by the virtual line and the AB side is 30 ° to 60 °, And the angle (Ab) between the line and the AC side is set to 0 to 10 degrees.
When the angle between the AB side and the imaginary line is less than 30 degrees, the incident light 'a' passes through the
When the angle between the AB side and the imaginary line is 60 degrees or more, the incident light 'a' is totally reflected in the
When the angle between the AC side and the imaginary line is 10 degrees or more, as shown in FIG. 2, when the light a passes through the AB side of the
As described above, the
Referring to the drawing, the case where the angle A-b is formed to be 0 占 is shown as an example.
Hereinafter, the light guide of the light guide plate according to the embodiment of the present invention will be schematically described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. FIG.
The external light of the
In addition, when an image is implemented in the transparent TFT-
That is, the light emitted from the
The lights a and b emitted from the LED
Since the
First, the light (a) is emitted from a light source and is incident on the
Therefore, when the angle of A-a is 30 or more, total reflection and transmission are repeatedly generated, so that uniform brightness can be exhibited.
The light emitted toward the
It is natural to follow the Snell's law at this time.
Here, in the medium in which the refractive index is large, light incident on the critical angle or more is totally reflected in the progress of the light in the medium.
Accordingly, the light incident into the
Referring to FIG. 3, it can be seen that a clear image is displayed even when the outgoing light (a, b) passes through the light guide plate and exits (a dotted line in the drawing).
The prism pattern at this time is an image when the angle "A-a" is 48 ° and the angle "A-b" is 0 °.
As described above, according to the transparent backlight unit provided with the prism light guide plate of the present invention, asymmetrical triangular prism patterns are formed on the lower surface of the light guide plate, so that the surface light source of uniform brightness can be emitted.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is evident that many alternatives, modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
110: TFT-LCD 120: light guide plate
121a, 121b, 121c:
122: upper surface 123: lower surface
124: incoming surface 130: LED light source
140: Things
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A transparent backlight unit having a prism light guide plate for arranging an asymmetric prism pattern on one side of a longitudinal direction of a light guide plate on which light of the LED light source is incident in a shape selected from an engraved and an embossed shape, .
The light-
A transparent backlight unit comprising a transparent plastic or a glass prism light guide plate having a transmittance of 80% or more and a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.8.
The asymmetric prism pattern
A transparent backlight unit comprising a prism light guide plate having an asymmetric triangle formed at an oblique angle and a triangular prism having acute angles formed by three sides.
The acute angle triangles (formed by vertices A, B, and C)
And a prism light guide plate having one side (BC side) contacting one side of the light guide plate and two sides (AB sides, AC sides) being formed at the other side of the light guide plate at an oblique angle, Transparent backlight unit.
The acute angle triangles (formed by vertices A, B, and C)
(AB side, AC side) is formed on the other side of the light guide plate at an obtuse angle, and an angle between the AB side and the AC side is 30 to 70 degrees A transparent backlight unit comprising a prism light guide plate.
The angle between the AB side and the AC side is
Wherein a virtual line is connected to the vertex A perpendicular to the BC side, and an angle formed by the virtual line, the AB side, and the AC side is 0 DEG to 10 DEG.
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