Backlight unit, double cone-shaped reflector, double cone-shaped reflector strip, illumination apparatus, and method of manufacturing double cone-shaped reflector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10001592-B2
Application number	US-201415038427-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2014
Priority date	Nov 22, 2013
Publication date	Jun 19, 2018
Grant date	Jun 19, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a backlight unit including a flat substrate, a light emitting device mounted on the flat substrate, a light guide plate disposed on the flat substrate, and a reflector being inserted to be disposed in a through-hole and having a contacted reflection portion contacted to the light emitting device and a spaced reflection portion spaced from the light emitting device. The light guide plate may include an inner wall surface defining the through-hole which accommodates the light emitting device. The contacted reflection portion and the spaced reflection portion are configured to reflect light generated in the light emitting device to penetrate into the light guide plate through the inner wall surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A backlight unit comprising:
a flat substrate;
a light emitting device mounted on the flat substrate;
a light guide plate being disposed on the flat substrate and including an inner wall surface, the inner wall surface defining a through-hole which accommodates the light emitting device;
a hollow reflector being inserted to be disposed in the through-hole and having a contacted reflection portion contacted to the light emitting device and a spaced reflection portion spaced from the light emitting device, wherein the hollow reflector is filled with an opaque material; and
a flange part formed on an upper surface of the reflector in a plate shape and contacting a surrounding part of the through-hole to fix the reflector to the through-hole of the light guide plate, wherein the contacted reflection portion and the spaced reflection portion are configured to reflect light generated in the light emitting device to penetrate into the light guide plate through the inner wall surface.

2. The backlight unit of claim 1 , wherein the light guide plate includes a flange groove part formed at the surrounding part of the through-hole so that the flange part is seated therein.

3. The backlight unit of claim 1 , wherein the reflector includes an inversed conical shape toward the light emitting device.

4. The backlight unit of claim 3 , wherein the flange part includes a male screw part, and the flange groove part includes a female screw part which is engaged with the male screw part.

5. The backlight unit of claim 1 , wherein the spaced reflection portion is configured to surround the contacted reflection portion.

6. The backlight unit of claim 5 , wherein the contacted reflection portion is disposed to correspond to a center of a light emitting surface of the light emitting device.

7. The backlight unit of claim 5 , wherein the spaced reflection portion has a symmetric shape with respect to the contacted reflection portion.

8. The backlight unit of claim 1 , wherein the flat substrate includes a same area as that of the light guiding plate so as to be fully overlapped with the light guiding plate.

9. The backlight unit of claim 1 , wherein each of the light emitting device and the through-hole includes a plurality of cones ones, and the plurality of cones form a lattice structure.

Assignees

• Lumens Co Ltd

Inventors

• Oh Seung-Hyun
• Han kang-min
• Han Suk-Min
• Lee Seung-Hoon
• Jo Sung-Sik

Classifications

• H01L33/58

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G02F1/133603

  with LEDs · CPC title

• G02B6/0088

  of the light guide or other optical sheets in the package · CPC title

• G02B6/0021

  for housing at least a part of the light source, e.g. by forming holes or recesses · CPC title

• G02B6/0068

  Arrangements of plural sources, e.g. multi-colour light sources · CPC title