Lighting device and display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10585227-B2
Application number	US-201916238552-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 3, 2019
Priority date	Jan 18, 2018
Publication date	Mar 10, 2020
Grant date	Mar 10, 2020

Abstract

A lighting device includes a light guide plate and a light source. The light guide plate includes a plate-like member. The light source is arranged so as to oppose an end surface of the light guide plate and emits light to the end surface. The light guide plate has a light incidence surface, an opposite surface of incidence, and a through-hole. In a straight traveling direction of light traveling straight inside the light guide plate from the light incidence surface to the opposite surface of incidence along an optical axis direction of the light, a region on the opposite surface of incidence side with respect to the through-hole is a shielded region where the light traveling straight along the optical axis direction is interrupted by the through-hole. Stepwise step parts that emit light from the light source to the shielded region side are provided adjacent to the shielded region.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lighting device comprising:
a light guide plate including a plate-like member; and
a light source that is arranged so as to oppose an end surface of the light guide plate and that emits light to the end surface, wherein
the light guide plate has a light incidence surface into which light enters from the light source, an opposite surface of incidence that is positioned on the opposite side of the light incidence surface, and a through-hole penetrating in a plate thickness direction,
in a straight traveling direction of light traveling straight inside the light guide plate from the light incidence surface to the opposite surface of incidence along an optical axis direction of the light, a region on the opposite surface of incidence side with respect to the through-hole is a shielded region where the light traveling straight along the optical axis direction is interrupted by the through-hole, and
stepwise step parts that emit light from the light source to the shielded region side are provided adjacent to the shielded region.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the step parts are provided by rising up from at least one of a pair of plate surfaces of the light guide plate.

3. The lighting device according to claim 2 , wherein the step parts continuously rise up from the light incidence surface side with respect to the through-hole.

4. The lighting device according to claim 3 , wherein, in a region of the step parts on the light incidence surface side with respect to the through-hole, a rising dimension from the plate surface progressively increases from the light incidence surface side to the opposite surface of incidence side, while in a region of the step parts on the opposite surface of incidence side with respect to the through-hole, the rising dimension is constant.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein the step parts are formed by making a plate thickness of the light guide plate thicker in the whole region on the opposite surface of incidence side excluding the shielded region, as compared to the light incidence surface side.

6. The lighting device according to claim 1 , wherein one of a pair of plate surfaces of the light guide plate is a light emission surface from which the light is emitted, and a diffusion sheet that diffuses light is laminated on the light emission surface side.

7. A display device comprising:
the lighting device according to claim 1 ; and
a display panel configure to perform a display by utilizing light from the lighting device.

8. The display device according to claim 7 , wherein the display panel is provided with a panel through-hole that is in communication with the through-hole and that penetrates in a thickness direction.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Kawano Akira
• Morita Tomohiro

Classifications

• G02F1/133615

  Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side · CPC title

• G02B6/0091

  of the light source relative to the light guide (G02B6/0021 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B6/0048 Primary

  with stepwise taper · CPC title

• G02B6/0046 Primary

  Tapered light guide, e.g. wedge-shaped light guide · CPC title

• G02F1/1333

  Constructional arrangements; {Manufacturing methods}(G02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence) · CPC title