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Granted Patent B2
US 11,719,416 · App. 17/023,025 · Granted Aug 8, 2023

Display device

Inventors: Yujun Chiu (Tainan, TW); Raphael Lin (Tainan, TW)
Assignee: Innolux Corporation
F21V15/04F21V7/04
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Patent No.
US 11,719,416
App. No.
17/023,025
Granted
Aug 8, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device is provided, including a display panel and a backlight module for providing a light passing through the display panel. The backlight module includes a plurality of cushion elements, wherein at least portion of the plurality of cushion elements has a less deformation modulus than the display panel.

Claims (30)

1. A display device, comprising:

a display panel; and

a backlight module for providing a light passing through the display panel, which comprises a plurality of cushion elements;

wherein at least one of the plurality of cushion elements has a support portion and a base portion, the support portion is connected to and disposed on the base portion, the support portion presents an elongated structure extending toward the display panel,

wherein the base portion includes:

two convex structures, respectively located on both sides of the support portion of the cushion element;

a connecting part, connecting the two convex structures; and

a bottom part, disposed opposite to the connecting part and connecting the two convex structures, wherein in a normal direction of the display panel, the location of a vertex of each convex structure is higher than the location of the connecting part.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a deformation modulus of each of the at least portion of the plurality of cushion elements is not higher than a half of that of the display panel.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of cushion elements each has a less deformation modulus than the display panel.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the deformation modulus of each of the plurality of cushion elements is not higher than a half of that of the display panel.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of cushion elements each has a deformation modulus not less than 0.5 kgf/mm and not higher than 8 kgf/mm.

6. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the base portion has a hollow region.

7. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in the normal direction of the display panel, the shortest distance from the vertex of each convex structure to a bottom part of the base portion is larger than the shortest distance from the connecting part to the bottom part.

8. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the display panel includes two substrates, and the thickness of each of the two substrates is greater than or equal to 0.3 mm and less than or equal to 2 mm.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the connecting part is larger than the thickness of each convex structure.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the support portion has a rounded corner on the top side of the support portion, and a width of the rounded corner is less than 0.5 mm.

11. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in each of the convex structures, an angle between the convex structure and a bottom part of the base portion is greater than or equal to 30 degrees and less than or equal to 60 degrees.

12. The display device as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the support portion has a cone structure.

13. The display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the backlight module comprises:

a rear casing, wherein the plurality of cushion elements are disposed on an inner surface a bottom shell of the rear casing; and

at least one optical film, disposed on a sustain portion of the rear casing, wherein the plurality of cushion elements is located between the rear casing and the at least one optical film.

14. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein there is a gap between the at least one optical film and each cushion element.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein each cushion element has an ultimate deformation distance, and a buffer ratio is defined following:

a width of the gap/(the width of the gap+the ultimate deformation distance)

wherein: the buffer ratio is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5.

16. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the backlight module further comprises a reflector disposed on the rear casing.

17. The display device as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the total length of each cushion element is defined as the distance from the top of the cushion element to the reflector,

wherein in a normal direction of the display panel, the total length of each cushion element is less than the shortest distance from the at least one optical film to the reflector.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 21, 2022
From: CHIU, YUJUN; LIN, RAPHAEL
To: INNOLUX CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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