IP Library Granted Patent US 7,131,764
Granted Patent B2
US 7,131,764 · App. 10/908,919 · Granted Nov 7, 2006

Backlight apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,131,764
App. No.
10/908,919
Granted
Nov 7, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A backlight apparatus includes a guiding element and a light source disposed at one side of the guiding element. There is a plurality of reflective patterns at the bottom surface of the guiding element. Each reflective pattern is composed of at least one concavity and at least one convexity. The concavity is disposed at the rim around the convexity. As the light source emits light to the guiding element, the reflective area is increased by the concavity of the reflective pattern for increasing the reflecting effect and for distributing the brightness more uniformly, and thereby higher brightness and uniformity can be achieved.

Claims (21)

1. A backlight apparatus, comprising:

a guiding element having a bottom surface and an emitting surface, the bottom surface having a plurality of reflective patterns, each reflective pattern being composed of a concavity and a convexity, the concavity being disposed at a rim of the convexity; and

at least one light source disposed on at least one lateral side of the guiding element for emitting light to the guiding element;

wherein at least one ring part is disposed mutually connected in sequence from the rim of the convexity toward outside of the convexity.

2. The backlight apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the concavity is of a ring shape and the shape is substantially the same as the shape of the rim of the convexity.

3. The backlight apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the ring part is a convexity of a ring shape or a concavity of a ring shape.

4. The backlight apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the shape of the concavity is circular, elliptic, rectangular or polygonal.

5. The backlight apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a bottom of the concavity is a rough surface.

6. A backlight apparatus, comprising:

a guiding element having a bottom surface and an emitting surface, the bottom surface having a plurality of reflective patterns, each reflective pattern being composed of a concavity and a convexity, the convexity being disposed at a rim of the concavity; and

at least one light source disposed on at least one lateral sides side of the guiding element for emitting light to the guiding element;

wherein a surface of the convexity is a rough surface.

7. The backlight apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the convexity is of a ring shape and the shape is substantially the same as the shape of the rim of the concavity.

8. The backlight apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the shape of the convexity is circular, elliptic, rectangular or polygonal.

9. The backlight apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein a bottom of the concavity is a rough surface.

10. The backlight apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein at least one ring part is disposed mutually connected in sequence from the rim of the concavity toward outside of the concavity.

11. The backlight apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the ring part is a convexity of a ring shape or a concavity of a ring shape.

12. A back light apparatus, comprising:

a guiding element having a bottom surface and an emitting surface, the bottom surface having a plurality of reflective patterns, each reflective pattern being composed of a concavity and a convexity, the concavity being disposed at a rim of the convexity; and

at least one light source disposed on at least one lateral side of the guiding clement for emitting light to the guiding element;

wherein a roughness of the concavity is from Ra 0.05 mm to Ra 5.0 mm and the depth thereof is from 0.001 mm to 0.5 mm, a roughness of the convexity being from Ra 0.05 mm to Ra 5.0 mm and the height thereof being from 0.001 mm to 0.5 mm and the diameter thereof being from 0.03 mm to 2.0 mm.

Assignments (5)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2023
From: NANO PRECISION TAIWAN LIMITED
To: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 065957/0613 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2019
From: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
To: NANO PRECISION TAIWAN LIMITED
Reel/Frame 048618/0382 →
MERGER Recorded Jan 9, 2019
From: YOUNG LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY INC.
To: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048039/0223 →
MERGER Recorded May 5, 2014
From: NANO PRECISION CORPORATION
To: YOUNG LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY INC.
Reel/Frame 032825/0042 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2005
From: HSU, CHIEN-HUNG; HUANG, WEN-YUNG; LIU, MING-DAH; PAN, BOR-JYH
To: NANO PRECISION CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 016078/0299 →