IP Library Granted Patent US 11,728,370
Granted Patent B2
US 11,728,370 · App. 17/189,659 · Granted Aug 15, 2023

Image display device

Inventors: Hidenori Kawanishi (Hiroshima, JP); Koji Takahashi (Hiroshima, JP); Katsuji Iguchi (Hiroshima, JP)
Assignee: Sharp Fukuyama Laser Co., Ltd.
H01L27/156G09G3/32H01L33/502H01L33/60H01L33/62
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Patent No.
US 11,728,370
App. No.
17/189,659
Granted
Aug 15, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image display device comprises a drive circuit substrate including a drive circuit that supplies currents to micro light-emitting elements to emit light; and the micro light-emitting elements arranged in an array shape on the drive circuit substrate, wherein a light-distribution control unit that increases forward light emission of the micro light-emitting elements is disposed on a light-emitting surface of each of the micro light-emitting elements, and a partition wall that does not transmit the light emitted by the micro light-emitting elements is disposed around the light-distribution control unit.

Claims (30)

1. An image display device comprising:

micro light-emitting elements;

a drive circuit substrate including a drive circuit that supplies currents to the micro light-emitting elements to emit light, wherein the micro light-emitting elements are arranged in an array shape on the drive circuit substrate;

light-distribution control units that increase forward light emission of the micro light-emitting elements, each of the light-distribution control units being disposed on a light-emitting surface of a corresponding one of the micro light-emitting elements; and

a partition wall, disposed around the light-distribution control units, that does not transmit the light emitted by the micro light-emitting elements, wherein the partition wall forms a portion of a wire that supplies the currents to the micro light-emitting elements.

2. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein a height of an upper surface of the partition wall is higher than or equal to a height of an upper surface of each of the light-distribution control units.

3. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein a side surface of the partition wall reflects the light.

4. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein a side surface of the partition wall, which faces at least one of the light-distribution control units, is inclined so as to open in a light emission direction.

5. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein metal that reflects the light emitted by the micro light-emitting elements is disposed on a side surface of the partition wall, which faces the light-distribution control units.

6. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the partition wall separates those of the micro light-emitting elements that are adjacent to each other.

7. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the micro light-emitting elements includes a scattering body.

8. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein a black matrix is disposed on an upper surface of the partition wall.

9. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the micro light-emitting elements comprise:

a first micro light-emitting element that emits light of a first light emission wavelength; and

a second micro light-emitting element that emits light of a second light emission wavelength longer than the first light emission wavelength, wherein

the light-distribution control unit formed on the light-emitting surface of the first micro light-emitting element has a configuration identical to a configuration of the light-distribution control unit formed on the light-emitting surface of the second micro light-emitting element.

10. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the micro light-emitting elements includes an excitation-light-emitting element and a wavelength conversion unit that down-converts excitation light emitted by the excitation-light-emitting element and that emits the down-converted light as the light.

11. The image display device according to claim 10 , wherein the partition wall separates the wavelength conversion unit of each of the micro light-emitting elements from the wavelength conversion unit of others of the micro light-emitting elements.

12. The image display device according to claim 10 , wherein the wavelength conversion unit has, on a light-emitting surface side, a color filter that absorbs the excitation light and transmits the down-converted light.

13. The image display device according to claim 10 , wherein the wavelength conversion unit has, on a light-emitting surface side, a transparent layer that transmits the down-converted light.

14. The image display device according to claim 10 , wherein the wavelength conversion unit has, on a light-emitting surface side, a dielectric multilayer film that reflects the excitation light and transmits the down-converted light.

15. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the light-distribution control units includes optical elements that are arrayed, and each of the optical elements is transparent to the emitted light and has a side surface inclined relative to the light-emitting surface.

16. The image display device according to claim 15 , wherein a refractive index of each of the optical elements is more than or equal to a geometric mean of a refractive index of a light-emitting part of each of the micro light-emitting elements and a refractive index of outside medium.

17. The image display device according to claim 15 , wherein each of the optical elements of a corresponding one of the micro light-emitting elements is disposed to be in contact with at least one other of the optical elements of the corresponding one of the micro light-emitting elements.

18. An image display device comprising:

micro light-emitting elements;

a drive circuit substrate including a drive circuit that supplies currents to the micro light-emitting elements to emit light, wherein the micro light-emitting elements are arranged in an array shape on the drive circuit substrate;

a plurality of optical elements arranged on a light-emitting surface of each of the micro light-emitting elements; and

a partition wall, disposed around the plurality of optical elements of each of the micro light-emitting elements, that does not transmit light emitted by the micro light-emitting elements, wherein the partition wall forms a portion of a wire that supplies the currents to the micro light-emitting elements.

19. The image display device according to claim 18 , wherein each of the optical elements has a side surface inclined relative to the light-emitting surface.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2022
From: SHARP SEMICONDUCTOR INNOVATION CORPORATION
To: SHARP FUKUYAMA LASER CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059397/0118 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 23, 2022
From: SHARP FUKUYAMA SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
To: SHARP SEMICONDUCTOR INNOVATION CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059235/0726 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 2, 2021
From: KAWANISHI, HIDENORI; TAKAHASHI, KOJI; IGUCHI, KATSUJI
To: SHARP FUKUYAMA SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 055458/0904 →
Priority Claims (1)
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