WO2006022352A1 - 液晶表示装置用バックライト - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a backlight for a liquid crystal display device that illuminates the liquid crystal display device from the back side.
- Liquid crystal display devices are thin, light, and have low power consumption, and thus have recently been used as display devices for a wide range of electronic devices such as televisions, mobile terminals, notebook computers, electronic notebooks, and camera-integrated VTRs. ing.
- a liquid crystal display device displays an image or the like by controlling the amount of incident light as well as an external force that emits light.
- a backlight for the liquid crystal display device that illuminates the liquid crystal display device is installed on the back surface thereof (see Patent Document 1).
- cold cathode tubes have been adopted for backlights for liquid crystal display devices.
- the required luminance is 10, OOOcdZm 2.
- an arc tube (cold cathode tube) is placed on the side of a conventional liquid crystal display device, and a reflector, light guide plate, diffusion sheet, prism sheet, etc. are used.
- the so-called edge light type backlight that illuminates the liquid crystal display device cannot obtain the required luminance. Therefore, in the backlight for the liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device A so-called direct-type arrangement configuration has been unavoidable in which an arc tube is arranged directly under the back surface portion.
- FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 show edge light type and direct type backlights, respectively.
- 9 is a reflector
- 10 is a cold cathode tube (light emitting tube)
- 11 is a reflector
- 12 is a light guide plate
- 13 is a diffuser sheet
- 14 is a prism sheet.
- 15 is a cold cathode tube
- 16 is a reflector
- 17 is a diffusion plate
- 18 is a diffusion sheet
- 19 is a prism sheet.
- a plurality of straight tubular light emitting tubes are arranged side by side, or the light emitting tubes are arranged in a meandering manner.
- Both the edge light type knock light and the direct type knock light are manufactured due to the large number of parts that make up the knock light, such as the necessity to install a diffusion sheet or a diffusion plate that diffuses light emission. The cost also increased!
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-242439
- the problem to be solved by the present invention is a component such as a diffusion sheet, which requires an edge light type or a direct type, while requiring a backlight with high power consumption while having low power consumption. Therefore, a flat panel type backlight for a liquid crystal display device that can illuminate the liquid crystal display device evenly in a flat manner can be provided at low cost.
- a backlight according to the present invention is a flat panel backlight that illuminates the back surface of a liquid crystal display device, and includes a panel case including a flat panel section partitioned into a plurality of light emitting areas, and an inner surface of the flat panel section.
- a plurality of anodes with phosphors formed corresponding to the respective light emitting areas, and a plurality of linear cathode parts arranged opposite to each of the anode parts with phosphors in the panel case.
- Each of the plurality of phosphor-attached anode portions is a field-electron comprising a conductive wire arranged in a linear manner in a direction substantially parallel to each of the plurality of phosphor-attached anode portions, and a carbon-based film formed on the outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire.
- the field electron emission portion of each of the plurality of linear cathode portions is provided so as to emit electrons radially toward each of the plurality of light emitting areas.
- a field electron emission fluorescent tube is focused on as the arc tube.
- field-emission fluorescent tubes are vacuum or nearly vacuum with no rare gas or mercury vapor in the tube, are environmentally friendly, and are thin so that the tube wall is not heated. It has advantages such as high density, high luminous efficiency and high luminance, and long life and high reliability.
- the present inventor has focused on the excellent features of field electron emission type fluorescent tubes, developed a field electron emission type fluorescent tube capable of emitting light with higher power consumption than before, and As a result, it has been developed and applied to a flat panel backlight.
- the backlight for a liquid crystal display device of the present invention it is not necessary to arrange a large number of light emitting tubes side by side as in the conventional backlight, or to install a diffusion sheet or the like in order to eliminate uneven brightness.
- the liquid crystal display device can be illuminated.
- linear is not limited to a linear shape, and includes a curved shape such as a spiral shape or a wave shape, a shape in which a linear shape and a curved shape are mixed, and other shapes, and is also solid.
- the cross-sectional shape is not particularly limited, and is not limited to a circle, and may be an ellipse, a rectangle, or other shapes.
- the carbon-based film is a carbon nanowall
- the conductive wire has a substantially circular cross section
- the carbon nanowall is highly oriented with a substantially uniform film thickness on the entire outer circumferential surface. A film is formed.
- the carbon-based film is a carbon nanowall having a form in which a plurality of nano-order carbon thin-wall forces are aggregated and coupled, and the wall-like portion emits electrons to the wall-like portion.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the main body strength of a liquid crystal television, with the liquid crystal display device and the backlight separated.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the main body strength of a liquid crystal television, with the liquid crystal display device and the backlight separated.
- FIG. 2 is a partially broken perspective view of the backlight shown in FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the backlight of FIG.
- FIG. 4 is a plan sectional view taken along line AA in FIG.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the characteristics of a backlight.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another modification of the backlight.
- FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of a conventional edge light type backlight.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic configuration diagram of a conventional direct type backlight.
- FIG. 9 is a perspective view of an illumination lamp according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a backlight according to the embodiment of the present invention using the illumination lamp of FIG.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining a film forming apparatus for forming a carbon nanowall on the outer peripheral surface of a conductive wire and a film forming method using the film forming apparatus.
- FIG. 12A is an enlarged view showing a cross section of a conductive wire.
- FIG. 12B is a partially enlarged perspective view of a conductive wire.
- reference numeral 20 denotes an entire liquid crystal television.
- Reference numeral 21 denotes a liquid crystal television main body
- 22 denotes a liquid crystal display device incorporated in the liquid crystal television main body
- 23 denotes a backlight according to an embodiment that illuminates the back surface of the liquid crystal display device 22.
- the knock light 23 includes a flat panel case 24, an anode portion 25 with a phosphor, and a linear cathode portion 26.
- the panel case 24 is surrounded by a pair of opposed flat panel portions 27 and 28 and four side panel portions 29, 30, 31, and 32, and the inside is in a vacuum or almost a vacuum state. . Techniques for evacuating or sealing the inside of the panel case 24 are well known, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.
- One flat panel portion 27 is a panel portion facing the back side of the liquid crystal display device 22.
- the flat panel unit 27 is divided into a plurality of light emitting areas Al, A2, and A3 that illuminate the back surface of the liquid crystal display device 22 in the embodiment.
- the flat panel portion 27 is made of glass, preferably soda lime glass.
- the other flat panel portion 28 is on the back side with respect to the flat panel portion 27.
- the flat panel 28 and the J-plane non-holes 30, 31, and 32 are made of a single piece of glass similar to the flat-type non-nore.
- the material of the panel case 24 is not limited to glass.
- the material of the panel case 24 may be any material that can transmit the emitted light to illuminate the back surface of the liquid crystal display device 22.
- the material of the panel case 24 is preferably a material excellent in light transmittance.
- an anode portion 25 with a phosphor On the inner surface of the flat panel portion 27, an anode portion 25 with a phosphor is formed.
- the anode portion with phosphor 25 has at least a two-layer structure of a phosphor layer 25a and an anode layer 25b.
- the phosphor layer 25 a is applied to the inner surface of the flat panel portion 27.
- the anode layer 25b is deposited on the phosphor layer 25a by vacuum deposition or sputtering.
- the anode terminal 25c is a terminal for drawing out the anode layer 25b of the anode portion 25 with the phosphor.
- the fluorescent material of the phosphor layer 25a is not particularly limited.
- the fluorescent material of the phosphor layer 25a is preferably a material that can emit white light.
- the material of the anode layer 25b is preferably an aluminum thin film.
- the material of the anode layer 25b is not limited to aluminum.
- the material of the anode layer 25b may be ITO (indium monostannate) which is a transparent electrode. ITO can be formed by sputtering, for example.
- the anode portion 25 with the phosphor is formed in a flat and wide state on the inner surface of the flat panel portion 27.
- the anode portion with phosphor 25 is divided into a plurality of light emitting areas A1 to A3 on the inner surface of the flat panel portion 27.
- the light emitting areas A1 to A3 are rectangular in plan view.
- the phosphor-attached anode section 25 has a plurality of phosphors for the light emitting areas Al, A2, A3.
- the anode parts 25A1, 25A2 and 25A3 can be divided into a plurality of anodes 25A1, 25A2 and 25A3 with a plurality of phosphors.
- linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 are provided corresponding to the anode portions 25A1, 25A2, and 25A3 with phosphors, respectively.
- Each of the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 includes a conductive wire 33 preferably made of nickel.
- a carbon nanowall is formed as a carbon-based film 35 on the surface of the conductive wire 33.
- electric field concentration can be assisted. This unevenness is microscopic and is not shown in the drawing.
- the carbon nanotube requires a catalytic metal and needs to be formed under a high vacuum.
- carbon nanowalls do not require a catalytic metal and can be deposited under a relatively low vacuum. Therefore, carbon nanowalls can be formed at low cost.
- the carbon nanotube has a high aspect ratio and is thin. Therefore, fluctuations occur at the tip of the carbon nanotube, making it difficult to emit electrons stably.
- the surface area is large in the presence of a small amount of oxygen, the heat generated during electron emission is high.
- drawbacks such as oxidative combustion and flickering.
- the carbon nanowall is a form in which many nano-order carbon thin-walled wall-like portions are aggregated and coupled in the plane direction on the surface of the conductive wire 33, and is an end portion by applying a voltage. High electric field concentration occurs on the upper surface of the wall-like part and emits electrons, so it has excellent mechanical strength and stable electron emission characteristics even in a low vacuum environment.
- carbon nanowalls do not require a catalyst metal and are under a low vacuum, and therefore can be easily formed on the surface of the conductive wire 33.
- the wall-like part is continuous Therefore, a stable film formation form can be obtained even on the surface of the fine conductive wire 33.
- carbon nanowalls have high electrical conductivity !, close to graphite !, have a crystal structure, and are composed of several tens of layers of graphene sheets. High electric field concentration occurs and emits electrons. Carbon nanowalls have excellent thermal stability and mechanical strength, and have stable electron emission characteristics even in a low vacuum environment.
- the wall portion of the carbon nanowall is composed of both side wall surfaces and an upper wall surface (end), and electric field concentration occurs on the upper wall surface, and the upper wall force electron emission is performed.
- Carbon nano-wall is relatively low temperature in and 10 1 to 10 2 Pa approximately also emit electrons at a low vacuum environment is performed, the environmental impact is extremely small.
- Carbon nanowalls can be formed by a direct current plasma CVD (chemical vapor deposition) method.
- a conductive wire having a circular cross section is arranged substantially at the center of the decompressed internal space of the cylindrical body, and is disposed opposite to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical body in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction.
- Hydrogen gas and carbon-based gas are introduced into the space, and a cylindrical body is used as a force sword and a conductive wire is used as an anode, and a DC power source is applied between them to generate a plasma column in the cylindrical body.
- a method of forming a carbon nanowall on the surface There is a method of forming a carbon nanowall on the surface.
- the cylindrical body includes a conductor formed in a coil shape, a cylindrical body having both ends opened, and a peripheral wall of the cylindrical body having a mesh shape or a fence shape.
- the power is £ 1000 and the girl's dress is less than 800 and the inner power is 800V and the inner force is 10000Pa and the girl's dress is «10003 ⁇ 4 and 2000Pa. .
- the carbon nanowall is formed in a state where the conductive wire has a circular cross-section and is arranged at substantially the center of the cylindrical body.
- the carbon nanowalls are also formed on the outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire with a highly uniform film orientation on the entire outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire. Become.
- the unevenness applied to the surface of the conductive wire 33 is formed by, for example, stretching the conductive wire 33 from a visible size unevenness formed by threading or the like. It is possible to include unevenness up to a certain size and unevenness due to surface roughness alone. Unevenness
- the conductive wire 33 includes, for example, spiral irregularities in the circumferential direction.
- the unevenness includes an unevenness along the length direction of the conductive wire 33.
- the outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire 33 is polished in the length direction with a polishing machine to roughen the surface to form microscopic streaks. It can be constituted by a large number of irregularities.
- the unevenness is not particularly limited to its size, shape, number, etc.
- the conductive wire 33 only needs to have conductivity.
- the conductive wire 33 is not limited to nickel.
- the carbon-based film 35 can be formed by techniques such as screen printing, coating, CVD (chemical vapor deposition), and electrodeposition.
- Each of the linear negative electrode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 is opposed to each of the anode portions with phosphors 25A1, 25A2, and 25A3 with a predetermined gap therebetween. Electrons emitted from the carbon-based films 35 of the cathodes 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 are emitted at the radiation angle ⁇ , and the anodes with phosphors 25A1, 25A2, and 25A3 have respective emission areas Al, A2, It only needs to cover A3.
- each of the conductive wires 33 of the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 includes conductive wires that are independent of each other.
- each of the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 may be arranged such that the conductive wires 33 are linearly arranged side by side.
- Each of the conductive wires 33 of the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 may be configured by meandering or bending one conductive wire inside the panel case 24.
- the emitted electrons are attracted to the corresponding anode portions 25A1, 25A2, and 25A3 with phosphors, and collide with the phosphors, whereby the light emitting areas Al, A2 of the anode portions with phosphors 25A1, 25A2, and 25A3, respectively.
- the phosphor present in A3 is excited and emits white light, which is visible light.
- the horizontal axis represents the gap (opposite gap) between the two flat panel sections 27 and 28, and the vertical axis represents the spread diameter of electrons emitted at the radiation angle ⁇ from the carbon-based film 35 which is the field electron emission section.
- the relationship with (mm) is shown.
- Fig. 5 shows the relationship when the DC voltage (kV) forces ⁇ kV, 10kV, and 15kV applied between the anode parts with phosphors 25A1, 25A2, 25A3 and the linear cathode parts 26A1, 26A2, 26A3. .
- Fig. 5 shows that the higher the DC voltage, the larger the electron spreading diameter, even with the same gap.
- the planar size of the panel case 24 is 90 mm both vertically and horizontally, and the case thickness is 10 mm.
- the length of each linear cathode part 26A1, 26A2, 26A3 shall be 60mm.
- 1 OkV (frequency 3 kHz) is applied between the anode portions with phosphors 25A1, 25A2, 25A3 and the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, 26A3 by a pulse power supply.
- the light emission luminance of the backlight of the embodiment was 70, OOOcdZm 2 , and the uniformity of the light emission luminance was 90% or more (measuring points 12 points).
- the backlight according to the embodiment was ineffective in luminance deterioration after long-term light emission (720 hours).
- the temperature rise on the surface of the panel case was ineffective.
- the cross section of the linear cathode portion 26 is circular or elliptical, electrons can be emitted radially from the entire outer peripheral surface thereof. Further, if the knocklight 23 is thin and large in area and the number of linear cathode portions is reduced, the light emitting area covered by one linear cathode portion is increased. Therefore, in order to obtain a backlight with high luminance emission, it is necessary to emit electrons from the linear cathode portion with high efficiency and high stability.
- a linear film is formed by using carbon nanowalls that are not carbon nanotubes as the electron emission material that is deposited on the surface of the conductive wire that forms the linear cathode portion.
- Electrons can be emitted from the negative electrode with high efficiency and high stability, and a backlight with high luminance can be obtained.
- the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 are arranged at positions opposite to the cathode portions with phosphors 25A1, 25A2, and 25A3, respectively. Electron reflecting surfaces 36A1, 36A2, and 36A3 that are concavely curved with respect to 26A2 and 26A3 are arranged, and the linear cathode portions 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 are arranged at the focal points of the force electron reflecting surfaces 36A1, 36A2, and 36A3, respectively. Also good.
- each linear cathode part 26A1, 26A2, and 26A3 each emits electrons in the respective directions of the electron reflecting surface 36A1, 36A2, and 36A3.
- Anode part with phosphor 25A1, 25A2 , 25A3 is reflected toward the parallel side, so that a higher luminance can be obtained.
- each linear cathode portion 26A1, 26A2, 26A3 reflects electrons as much as half of the conductive wire 33 to the electron reflecting surfaces 36A1, 36A2, 36A3.
- Each phosphor-attached anode section 25A1, 25A2, 25A3 can be directed toward the side, and the panel case can be further reduced in thickness.
- FIG. 9 shows a tubular illumination lamp 40.
- This illumination lamp 40 has an anode part 2 with a phosphor composed of a phosphor layer 25a and an anode layer 25b on the inner surface of a vacuum sealed tube 41 having a substantially circular cross section, and a substantially center of the vacuum sealed tube 41 in the longitudinal direction.
- a linear cathode portion 26 arranged to extend.
- the linear cathode portion 26 includes a conductive wire 33 extending linearly and a field electron emission portion 35 having a carbon nanowall force formed on the outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire 33 in the same manner as described above. Speak.
- FIG. 10 shows a backlight 23 for a liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present invention in which a plurality of the illumination lamps 40 are arranged side by side at a predetermined interval.
- the backlight 23 shown in FIG. 10 is disposed on the back surface of the liquid crystal display device 22 and illuminates the back surface of the liquid crystal display device 22.
- this film forming apparatus 50 includes a conductive or insulating vacuum chamber 52.
- the vacuum chamber 52 has a gas inlet 54 and a gas exhaust.
- An exit 56 is provided.
- the gas for generating plasma is hydrogen gas, and the source gas is carbon-based gas.
- the internal pressure of the vacuum chamber 52 is in the range of lOPa to lOOOOPa.
- a coiled cylindrical body 58 having a conductive peripheral wall is disposed.
- a conductive wire 33 that is a substrate is disposed in the internal space of the cylindrical body 58.
- the cylindrical body 58 extends long.
- the wire 33 is disposed in the internal space of the cylindrical body 58 and has a structure extending in an elongated shape.
- the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body 58 and the outer peripheral surface of the wire 33 are opposed to each other with a required space in the extending direction.
- the cylindrical body 58 is connected to the negative electrode of the voltage-variable DC power source 60 and applied with a negative DC potential
- the wire 33 is connected to the positive electrode of the DC power source 60 and applied with a DC positive potential.
- the internal pressure of the vacuum chamber 52 is reduced within the above pressure range, and hydrogen gas and carbon-based gas are supplied from a gas supply cylinder (not shown) through the gas inlet 54.
- a gas supply cylinder not shown
- hydrogen gas and carbon-based gas are supplied from a gas supply cylinder (not shown) through the gas inlet 54.
- a negative potential of the DC power supply 60 is applied to the cylindrical body 58, a plasma column 62 is generated in the internal space of the cylindrical body 58, and the carbon nanowall 35 is formed on the surface of the wire 33.
- the voltage of the DC power supply 60 is 300 to 1000V.
- the carbon nanowall 35 is formed on the entire outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire 33.
- the carbon nanowall 35 has a configuration in which wall-shaped portions 37 made of a large number of nanoorder carbon flakes are assembled and coupled.
- the conductive wire 33 is disposed at the center of the cylindrical body 58, the wall-shaped portion 37 is erected in the radial direction from the center of the conductive wire 33 over the entire circumference of the outer peripheral surface of the conductive wire 33. In this state, the outer peripheral surface force of the conductive wire 33 is also oriented to a substantially uniform film thickness.
- the carbon nanoall 35 has a shape in which an electric field concentrates on the upper end of the wall-shaped portion 37.
- the wall-shaped portion 37 of the carbon nanowall 35 has been used as a wall-shaped portion that emits electrons.
- the wall-shaped portion 37 is not an electron emission source. It can be used as a wall-like portion for dispersively arranging needle-like carbon films (carbon needles) in a region surrounded by the wall-like portion. This is because of the high aspect ratio of carbon nanotubes, etc.
- the needle-shaped carbon-dollar is high at the tip, making it easy to cause electric field concentration! However, if many carbon dollars are arranged, the electric field will not concentrate. Therefore, it is preferable to disperse and arrange the carbon needles.
- the wall shape of the carbon nanowall is used. The part can be used not as an electron emission source but as a wall-like part for carbon-one-dollar dispersion.
- the present invention can be used for a backlight for a liquid crystal display device that is disposed on the back side of a liquid crystal display device and illuminates the back surface.
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