Optical assembly, backlight unit having the same, and display apparatus thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9222644-B2
Application number	US-201514603516-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 23, 2015
Priority date	Oct 11, 2011
Publication date	Dec 29, 2015
Grant date	Dec 29, 2015

Abstract

The present invention provides an optical assembly, a backlight unit having the same, and a display apparatus thereof, and the optical assembly includes: a light emitting device; and a lens disposed above the light emitting device, and the lens has: a lower surface portion through which light emitted from the light emitting device travels inside; an upper surface portion that totally reflects at least some of the light traveling inside through the lower surface portion, downward to the side; and a side portion through which the light totally reflected from the upper surface portion is discharged to the outside.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display unit, comprising:
a display panel; and
a backlight unit disposed behind the display panel and including a plurality of light sources, each light source including a light emitting device and a lens disposed above the light emitting device,
wherein the lens includes:
a lower surface portion;
a light source receiving portion recessed upwardly from the lower surface portion, the light source receiving portion including:
a first recess portion which is upwardly recessed from a center of lower surface portion; and
a second recess portion which is further upwardly recessed from a top surface of the first recess portion;

a side surface portion extending upwardly from an edge of the lower surface portion;
an upper surface portion formed at an upper end of the side surface portion and configured to allow light emitted from the light source to be reflected towards the side surface portion and refracted towards the display panel,
wherein a height of an edge of the upper surface portion from the lower surface portion is greater than a height of a center of the upper surface portion from the lower surface portion,
wherein the side surface portion is outwardly inclined from the lower surface portion to the upper surface portion,
wherein a longitudinal section between the edge and the center of the upper surface portion has a convexly curved shape.

2. The display unit of claim 1 , wherein the upper surface portion is curved such that an amount of the reflected light from the upper surface portion is bigger than an amount of the refracted light from the upper surface portion.

3. The display unit of claim 1 , wherein a width of the top surface of the first recess portion is bigger than a width of a bottom surface of the second recess portion.

4. The display unit of claim 3 , wherein the top surface of the first recess portion is flat and the second recess portion has an aspheric shape.

5. The display unit of claim 1 , wherein an inclination angle of the side portion of the lens is equal to or less than 45 degrees from the horizontal surface.

6. The display unit of claim 1 , wherein H/P is configured to be more than 0.3,
H: depth of the upper surface portion,
P: pitch of the upper surface portion.

7. The display unit of claim 1 , further comprising a diffusion layer disposed beneath the lower surface of the lens.

8. A lens disposed above a light emitting device, comprising:
a lower surface portion;
a light source receiving portion recessed upwardly from the lower surface portion, the light source receiving portion including:
a first recess portion which is upwardly recessed from a center of lower surface portion; and
a second recess portion which is further upwardly recessed from a top surface of the first recess portion;

a side surface portion extending upwardly from an edge of the lower surface portion;
an upper surface portion formed at an upper end of the side surface portion and configured to allow light emitted from the light source to be reflected towards the side surface portion and refracted towards a display panel,
wherein a height of an edge of the upper surface portion from the lower surface portion is greater than a height of a center of the upper surface portion from the lower surface portion,
wherein the side surface portion is outwardly inclined from the lower surface portion to the upper surface portion,
wherein a longitudinal section between the edge and the center of the upper surface portion has a convexly curved shape.

9. The display unit of claim 8 , wherein the upper surface portion is curved such that an amount of the reflected light from the upper surface portion is bigger than an amount of the refracted light from the upper surface portion.

10. The display unit of claim 8 , wherein a width of the top surface of the first recess portion is bigger than a width of a bottom surface of the second recess portion.

11. The display unit of claim 10 , wherein the top surface of the first recess portion is flat and the second recess portion has an aspheric shape.

12. The display unit of claim 8 , wherein an inclination angle of the side portion of the lens is equal to or less than 45 degrees from the horizontal surface.

13. The display unit of claim 8 , wherein H/P is configured to be more than 0.3,
H: depth of the upper surface portion,
P: pitch of the upper surface portion.

14. The display unit of claim 8 , further comprising a diffusion layer disposed beneath the lower surface of the lens.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Kyungjoon
• Hwang Woongjoon
• Joung Juyoung

Classifications

• H10H20/855

  Optical field-shaping means, e.g. lenses · CPC title

• G02B19/0028

  refractive and reflective surfaces, e.g. non-imaging catadioptric systems · CPC title

• F21V5/04 Primary

  of lens shape · CPC title

• G02B19/0047

  for use with a light source (G02B19/009, G02B19/0095 take precedence; details of lighting devices in general F21V; non-semiconductor lasers having optical devices external to the laser cavity H01S3/005) · CPC title

• G02B6/0068

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