IP Library Granted Patent US 8,363,035
Granted Patent B2
US 8,363,035 · App. 12/417,243 · Granted Jan 29, 2013

Illumination device, coordinate inputting device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,363,035
App. No.
12/417,243
Granted
Jan 29, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An illumination device includes a light incident face onto which light is incident, a light guide plate that has a light emitting face that is disposed adjacent to the light incident face and intersects the light incident face, an illumination light source that is disposed to face the light incident face such that an optical axis thereof faces the light incident face, a position detecting beam source that is disposed to face the light incident face such that an optical axis thereof faces the light incident face, and a wiring substrate that extends along the light incident face and has both the illumination light source and the position detecting beam source mounted thereon.

Claims (23)

1. An illumination device comprising:

Illumination light sources emitting illumination light; a light guide plate that has a plurality of light incident faces including first and second light incident faces, and the light guide plate has a light emitting face through which the illumination light exits from the light guide plate, the light guide plate having a plate-shaped body; a plurality of position detecting beam sources that include a first position detecting beam source emitting first detection light and a second position detecting, beam source emitting second detection light and, a wiring substrate that has a first substrate face facing the first light incident face and a second substrate face facing the second light incident face, wherein the illumination light sources and the first position detecting beam source are mounted on the first substrate face, the second position detecting beam source is mounted on the second substrate face, the illumination light and the first detection light enter the light guide plate through the first light incident, and the second detection light enters the light guide plate through, the second light incident face.

2. An illumination device comprising:

Illumination light sources emitting illumination light; a light guide plate that has a plurality of light incident faces including first, second, and third light incident faces; a plurality of position detecting beam sources that include a first position detecting beam source emitting first detection light, a second position detecting beam source emitting second detection light, and a third position detecting beam source emitting third detection light; and a wiring substrate that has a first substrate face facing the first light incident face, a second substrate face facing the second light incident face, and a third substrate face facing the third light incident face, wherein the illumination light sources and the first position detecting beam source are mounted on the first substrate face, the second position detecting beam source is mounted on the second substrate face, the third position detecting beam source is mounted on the third substrate face, the illumination light and the first detection light enter the light guide plate through the first incident face, the second detection light enters the light guide plate through the second light incident face, and the third detection light enters the light guide plate through the third light incident face.

3. The illumination device according to claim 1 ,

the first detection light and the second detection light exiting from the light emitting face.

4. The illumination device according claim 2 ,

the third detection light exiting from the light emitting face.

5. The light illumination device according to claim 1 ,

the first light incident face being positioned at a first side of the light guide plate, the second light incident face being positioned at a second side, which is different from the first side, of the light guide plate.

6. The illumination device according to claim 1 ,

the wiring substrate covering at least a part of an end face of the light guide plate.

7. An illumination device comprising:

Illumination light sources emitting illumination light; a light guide plate that has a plurality of light incident faces including first, second, third, and fourth light incident faces; a plurality of position detecting beam sources that include a first position detecting beam source emitting first detection light, a second position detecting beam source emitting second detection light, a third position detecting beam source emitting third detection light and a fourth position detecting beam source emitting fourth detection light; and a wiring substrate that has a first substrate face facing the first light incident face, a second substrate face facing the second light incident face, a third substrate face facing the third light incident face, and a fourth substrate face facing the fourth light incident face, wherein the illumination light sources and the first position detecting beam source are mounted on the first substrate face, the second position detecting beam source is mounted on the second substrate face, the third position detecting beam source is mounted on the third substrate face, the fourth position detecting beam source is mounted on the fourth substrate face, the illumination light and the first detection light enter the light guide plate through the first incident face, the second detection light enters the light guide plate through the second light incident face, the third detection light enters the light guide plate through the third light incident face, the fourth detection light enters the light plate through the fourth light incident face.

8. The illumination device according to claim 7 ,

a first optical axis of the illumination light intersecting a plane of the wiring substrate, and

a second optical axis of the first detection light intersecting the plane of the wiring substrate.

9. The light illumination device according to claim 1 ,

an object to be detected being irradiated with the first detection light.

10. The illumination device according to claim 7 ,

the first detection light exiting from a light emitting face of the light guide plate.

11. The illumination device according to claim 7 ,

the wiring substrate covering at least a part of an end face of the light guide plate.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: 138 EAST LCD ADVANCEMENTS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046153/0397 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 2, 2009
From: NAKANISHI, DAISUKE
To: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022508/0964 →