IP Library Granted Patent US 10,871,610
Granted Patent B2
US 10,871,610 · App. 16/802,955 · Granted Dec 22, 2020

Lighting device and display device

Inventor: Tsuyoshi Miyata (Yonago, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G02B6/0088G02F1/133603G02F1/133605G02F1/133606G02F1/133615
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Patent No.
US 10,871,610
App. No.
16/802,955
Granted
Dec 22, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A lighting device includes: a light source; a plate-like optical member on which light from the light source falls; an optical sheet that imparts an optical effect to light emitted from the optical member; and an accommodating member that surrounds outer peripheral edges of the optical member and outer peripheral edges of the optical sheet. The optical sheet has a body part having a polygonal shape, extension portions provided on side portions of the body part and placed between the outer peripheral edges of the optical member and the chassis, and curtain portions, provided in corner portions of the body part, each of which connects the extension portions provided on adjacent ones of the side portions, and the extension portions and the curtain portions are provided with folds, respectively.

Claims (16)

1. A lighting device comprising:

a light source;

a plate-like optical member on which light from the light source emits to;

an optical sheet that imparts an optical effect to light emitted from the optical member; and

an accommodating member that surrounds outer peripheral edges of the optical member and outer peripheral edges of the optical sheet,

wherein the optical sheet has a body part having a polygonal shape, extension portions provided on side portions of the body part and placed between the outer peripheral edges of the optical member and the accommodating member, and curtain portions, provided in corner portions of the body part, each of which connects the extension portions provided on adjacent ones of the side portions, and

the extension portions and the curtain portions are provided with folds, respectively.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the body part, the extension portions, and the curtain portions are formed by a single sheet member.

3. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the extension portions is provided so as to extend in a predetermined direction from a corresponding one of the side portions and provided with a fold that crosses the direction of extension.

4. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the optical member is a light-guiding plate having an entrance end face which is a portion of the outer peripheral edges of the optical member and on which the light from the light source emits to and a light exit plate surface which is either of a pair of plate surfaces and through which the light is emitted, and

the extension portions are provided for each separate one of the side portions excluding the side portion facing the entrance end face of the light-guiding plate.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the optical member is a diffusion plate having a light entrance face which is a first one of a pair of plate surfaces on which the light from the light source emits to and a light exit surface which is a second one of the pair of plate surfaces and through which the light is emitted, and

the extension portions are provided for each separate one of all of the side portions.

6. A display device comprising:

the lighting device according to claim 1 ; and

a display panel that displays an image with light emitted from the lighting device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2020
From: MIYATA, TSUYOSHI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 051949/0496 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62812520 · Mar 1, 2019
Related Publication 20200278490A1 · Sep 3, 2020