IP Library Granted Patent US 12,353,092
Granted Patent B2
US 12,353,092 · App. 17/916,319 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Diffusing member, manufacturing method of diffusing member, planar light source device, display device, and dielectric multilayer film

Inventors: Marii Nishikawa (Tokyo-to, JP); Yasuyuki Oyagi (Tokyo-to, JP); Yukio Taniguchi (Tokyo-to, JP); Masahiro Goto (Tokyo-to, JP)
Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
G02F1/133607G02F1/133507G02F1/133526F21Y2113/13
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Patent No.
US 12,353,092
App. No.
17/916,319
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A planar light source device includes a light diffusing portion and a light reflecting portion in this order. The light diffusing portion has light transmissivity and light diffusivity. Reflectance of the light reflecting portion with respect to light of a particular wavelength entering at an angle of incidence of 0° is 80% or higher. The reflectance of the light reflecting portion with respect to at least part of light of the particular wavelength entering at an angle of incidence of which an absolute value is greater than 45° is less than 50%.

Claims (19)

1. A diffusing member comprising:

a light diffusing portion including unit optical elements, wherein:

each of the unit optical elements includes a convex portion or concave portion that has a shape of a triangular pyramid of which a bottom face is an isosceles right triangle,

the bottom face includes a base facing a vertex forming a right angle of the isosceles right triangle,

a pair of the unit optical elements is arrayed such that the bases of the pair of the unit optical elements are overlapped,

a plurality of pairs of the unit optical elements are arranged in a first direction and a second direction,

the unit optical elements are arrayed such that:

an orientation of the overlapped bases of a first pair of the unit optical elements is different from an orientation of the overlapped bases of a second pair of the unit optical elements, and

the bottom faces of the unit optical elements are arrayed in four orientations, and

an in-plane distribution of radiant intensity of light that enters the diffusing member is uniform.

2. The diffusing member according to claim 1 , wherein

an orientation of the overlapped bases of the first pair of the unit optical elements is different from an orientation of the overlapped bases of the second pair of the unit optical elements, which is adjoined to the first pair of the unit optical elements in the first direction, and

the orientation of the overlapped bases of the first pair of the unit optical elements is also different from an orientation of the overlapped bases of a third pair of the unit optical elements, which is adjoined to the first pair of the unit optical elements in the second direction.

3. The diffusing member according to claim 1 , wherein

each of the unit optical elements is arrayed such that two equal sides other than the base of the isosceles right triangle at the bottom surface extend the first direction or the second direction.

4. A planar light source device, comprising:

the diffusing member according to any one of claim 1 ; and

a light source that outputs light that enters the diffusing member.

5. A display device, comprising: the planar light source device according to claim 4 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2022
From: NISHIKAWA, MARII; OYAGI, YASUYUKI; TANIGUCHI, YUKIO; GOTO, MASAHIRO
To: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (3)
JP 2020-063498 · Mar 31, 2020 · national
JP 2020-176216 · Oct 20, 2020 · national
JP 2020-217710 · Dec 25, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230152626A1 · May 18, 2023
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