KR101644856B1 - Polarized back light unit and display device including the same - Google Patents
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Abstract
A polarizing backlight unit, and a polarizing backlight unit.
Description
The present invention relates to a polarizing backlight unit and a display device including the polarizing backlight unit.
2. Description of the Related Art [0002] Recently, various portable electronic devices such as a mobile phone, a PDA, and a notebook computer have been developed, and a demand for a light and thin flat panel display device . As such flat panel displays, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), plasma display panels (PDPs), field emission displays (FEDs) and vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) have been actively studied. Liquid crystal display devices (LCDs) are in the spotlight at present due to reasons such as realization of high image quality and realization of a large area screen.
The liquid crystal display displays an image using a liquid crystal interposed between two electrodes. However, the liquid crystal constituting the display element of such a liquid crystal display device does not emit light by itself, but merely performs a function of transmitting or blocking light according to an applied electric signal. Therefore, in order to display information on the liquid crystal panel, a so-called backlight unit (hereinafter also referred to as BLU), which is a surface emitting device for illuminating the liquid crystal panel from behind, must be separately included in the liquid crystal display. It is preferable that such a BLU should increase the brightness of light and uniformly illuminate the liquid crystal panel by forming a uniform planar light source, which is very important from the viewpoint of the quality of the product.
In general, various components, such as a light source, a light guiding plate, a reflection sheet, a diffusion sheet, a prism sheet, and a protective sheet, And a single BLU is formed. Here, the light guide plate serves to guide light evenly from the light source to all directions. The reflective sheet reflects the light coming out from the lower surface of the light guide plate back to the light guide plate, and the diffusion sheet diffuses the light, And the prism sheet functions to improve the brightness by refracting light by vertically and horizontally. In addition, the protective sheet protects foreign matter such as dust from being adhered to grooves between the mountains and the mountains of the prism sheet and prevents scratches from occurring.
However, in the conventional BLU, a method of scattering, refracting, or diffusing light is used in order to equalize brightness.
In this regard, Korean Patent Registration No. 1219591 relates to a backlight light guide plate. Even if light is incident on a backlight system from a light source, the light is lost due to scattering, refraction, or diffusion of light.
The present application is intended to provide a polarizing backlight unit and a display device including the polarizing backlight unit.
However, the problems to be solved by the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light guide plate including a light guide portion including a light guide portion that totally reflects light emitted from a light source, and a light extracting portion that is integrated on the light guide portion; A polarization unit formed between the light guide unit and the light extracting unit; And a reflecting film including a half wave plate formed on one side surface of the light guide unit so as to face the light source, wherein the polarizing unit separates the polarized light component of the light, and the effective polarized light is reflected by the light extracting unit And the invalid polarized light totally reflected by the polarizing section is converted into effective polarized light by the half-wave plate. The polarized-light backlight unit according to claim 1, do.
A second aspect of the invention provides a display device comprising a polarizing backlight unit according to the first aspect of the present application.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, not only effective polarized light but also invalid polarized light can be converted into effective polarized light by separating the polarized light component of the light by the polarized light portion. Accordingly, the light which can not be used in the past can be reproduced and used, and the luminance can be improved by about two times or more. Accordingly, a display device with maximized optical efficiency can be manufactured.
In addition, the power consumption of the backlight of the same brightness can be reduced by half.
In addition, by eliminating a separate physical space for reproducing light, the size and thickness of the display device can be reduced.
1 is a schematic diagram of a polarization backlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a schematic diagram of a polarization backlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a schematic diagram of a polarization backlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. It should be understood, however, that the present invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, the same reference numbers are used throughout the specification to refer to the same or like parts.
Throughout this specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it is not limited to a case where it is "directly connected" but also includes the case where it is "electrically connected" do.
Throughout this specification, when a member is " on " another member, it includes not only when the member is in contact with the other member, but also when there is another member between the two members.
Throughout this specification, when an element is referred to as " including " an element, it is understood that the element may include other elements as well, without departing from the other elements unless specifically stated otherwise. The terms " about ", " substantially ", etc. used to the extent that they are used throughout the specification are intended to be taken to mean the approximation of the manufacturing and material tolerances inherent in the stated sense, Accurate or absolute numbers are used to help prevent unauthorized exploitation by unauthorized intruders of the referenced disclosure. The word " step (or step) " or " step " used to the extent that it is used throughout the specification does not mean " step for.
Throughout this specification, the term " combination (s) thereof " included in the expression of the machine form means a mixture or combination of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of the constituents described in the expression of the form of a marker, Quot; means at least one selected from the group consisting of the above-mentioned elements.
Throughout this specification, the description of "A and / or B" means "A or B, or A and B".
In the present specification as a whole, " light guide plate " is a part that performs the brightness and uniform lighting function of the backlight unit, and specifically, a part of the backlight unit, which is assembled inside a backlight unit for guiding light to the liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display Means an object to be injected, and may confine the light emitted from the light source to uniformly transmit the light, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
Throughout this specification, the term "light extractor" refers to "nano-sized fine pattern or micro-sized fine pattern". The micropattern includes a fine pattern such as a truncated cone shape, a polygonal prism shape, a pyramid shape, a prism shape, or a lenticular shape, and the nano-sized fine pattern includes a size of about 1 nm to about 999 nm, Sized fine pattern comprises a size of from about 1 [mu] m to about 1,000 [mu] m.
Throughout the present specification, " lenticular " means that a columnar shape is arranged side by side in a plurality of rows. Since a stereoscopic effect or a transformation can be realized according to a viewing angle, , And a sheet, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
Hereinafter, embodiments and examples of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments and examples and drawings.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light guide plate including a light guide portion including a light guide portion that totally reflects light emitted from a light source, and a light extracting portion that is integrated on the light guide portion; A polarization unit formed between the light guide unit and the light extracting unit; And a reflection film including a half wave plate formed on one side surface of the light guide unit so as to face the light source, wherein the polarizer unit separates the polarization component of the light by the polarization unit, And the invalid polarized light is totally reflected by the polarizing section into the light guide section, and the invalid polarized light totally reflected by the polarizing section is converted into effective polarized light by the half-wave plate. A polarizing backlight unit is provided.
In this regard, Figures 1 and 2 are schematic diagrams of a polarization backlight unit according to one embodiment of the present application. The polarizing backlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a light guide plate including a
In one embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the light guide plate may have a shape in which the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the transparent adhesive may be selected from the group consisting of a pressure sensitive adhesive, an optical transparent adhesive, a UV tape, an acrylic ultraviolet curing base, and combinations thereof, but is not limited thereto .
In one embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the light incident into the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the
The
In an embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present application, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the brightness and / or the viewing angle distribution of light output to the outside of the backlight unit may be determined depending on the size or density of the
In an embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the
In one embodiment of the present invention, when the light incident from the
In one embodiment of the present invention, the light incident from the
In one embodiment of the invention, the
1, the
3, the reactive polarized light totally reflected by the
The converted effective polarized light may be totally reflected in the
A second aspect of the present invention provides a display device comprising a backlight unit according to the first aspect of the present application. Although a detailed description of the display device according to the second aspect of the present invention is omitted for the description of the first aspect of the present invention, the description of the first aspect of the present application is omitted in the second aspect of the present invention The same can be applied.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the display device may include an LCD display device, an LED display device, or an electronic paper, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the display device may be manufactured by a method adopted in a general display process including the polarization backlight unit, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the foregoing description of the embodiments is for illustrative purposes and that those skilled in the art can easily modify the invention without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.
The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention.
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A polarization unit formed between the light guide unit and the light extracting unit; And
And a reflecting film including a half-wave plate formed on one side surface of the light guide unit so as to face the light source
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And the polarized light component of the light is separated by the polarizing section so that the effective polarized light is output to the outside of the light guide plate by the light extracting section and the reactive polarized light is totally reflected by the polarizing section into the light guide section,
Wherein the ineffective polarized light totally reflected by the polarizing unit is converted to effective polarized light by changing the polarized direction of the invalid polarized light by outputting the invalid polarized light by changing the half-
Polarized backlight unit.
Wherein the effective polarized light is polarized in a transverse magnetic mode.
And the reactive polarized light is polarized in a TE mode (transverse electric mode).
Wherein the polarizing portion comprises a nanowire grid.
Wherein the light extracting portion includes a shape selected from the group consisting of a plurality of truncated cone shapes, a polygonal prism shape, a pyramid shape, a prism shape, a lenticular shape, and combinations thereof, and a reverse phase thereof.
Wherein the light extracting portion has a constant width or pitch.
Wherein the light extracting unit is integrated with the light guiding unit by a transparent adhesive, heat welding, or chemical welding.
Wherein the transparent adhesive includes one selected from the group consisting of a pressure sensitive adhesive, an optical transparent adhesive, a UV tape, an acrylic ultraviolet curing base, and combinations thereof.
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