Light guide plate with trigonal recesses
View Patent ↗A backlight assembly for providing liquid crystal display enhanced brightness of light with a lower consumption of electricity includes a light guide plate having brightness enhancing recesses formed on a bottom surface and light collecting grooves formed on an upper surface. The brightness enhancing recesses efficiently reflect the light having different directions and the light collecting grooves collects the light reflected by the brightness enhancing recesses.
1. A backlight assembly, comprising;
a lamp assembly for generating and emitting light in a first direction;
a first light guide plate for enhancing a brightness of the light, the light guide plate including a body for guiding the light transmitted from the lamp assembly, the body has brightness enhancing recesses that are formed on a bottom surface, each of the brightness enhancing recesses having at least three sidewalls which reflect light beams that are irradiated on the sidewalls, said light beams having different light amounts and pathways from each other, each area of the sidewalls of the brightness enhancing recesses being proportional to the amount of the light beams and the brightness enhancing recesses have a polyhedron horn shape; and
a light reflection plate for returning the light that is leaked out of the first guide plate, said light reflection plate being mounted on the bottom surface of the first light guide plate.
2. A backlight assembly of claim 1 , wherein a first portion of the brightness enhancing recesses which are closest to the lamp assembly has a first size and a first density and a second portion of the brightness enhancing recesses which are farther away from the lamp assembly has a second size greater than the first size and a second density less than the first density.
3. A backlight assembly of claim 1 , wherein the sidewall of each of the brightness enhancing recesses which is opposite to the lamp assembly has a larger area than a rest sidewall of each of the brightness enhancing recesses.
4. A backlight assembly of claim 1 , wherein the bright enhancing recesses has a shape selected from the group consisting of a trigonal horn shape, a tetragonal horn shape and a pentagonal horn shape.
5. A backlight assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first light guide plate has at least one first light collecting groove, which is formed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on an upper surface thereof and has a V-shape in a sectional view.
6. A backlight assembly of claim 5 , further comprising;
a second light guide plate having an engagement groove formed at a bottom surface thereof and a second light collecting groove formed in the first direction on any upper surface of the second light guide plate,
wherein the engagement groove is engaged with the first light collecting groove and the second light collecting groove has a V-shape in a sectional view.
7. A liquid crystal display device, comprising;
a liquid crystal display panel assembly for controlling liquid crystal precisely to display an image; and
a backlight assembly including a lamp assembly for generating and emitting light in a first direction, a first light guide plate for enhancing a brightness of the light, the light guide plate including a body for guiding the light transmitted from the lamp assembly, the body has brightness enhancing recesses that are formed on a bottom surface, each of the brightness enhancing recesses having at least three sidewalls which reflect light beams that are irradiated on the sidewalls, said light beams having different light amounts and pathways from each other, each area of the sidewalls of the brightness enhancing recesses being proportional to the amount of the light beams and the brightness enhancing recesses have a polyhedron horn shape, a light reflection plate for returning the light that is leaked out of the first guide plate, said light reflection plate being mounted on the bottom surface of the first light plate.