LCD Light Source Panel with Concave LED Areas

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional liquid crystal display (LCD) devices face challenges in achieving a thin thickness while maintaining partial luminance due to the thickness of the backlight unit, which includes a light guide plate and optical sheets.

Innovation Solution

The LCD device incorporates a light source panel with emissive areas defined on a base plate, featuring concave portions to accommodate light emitting devices, and an optical gap between the light emitting devices and the liquid crystal layer, which prevents hot spots and reduces the overall thickness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If a conventional backlight unit with light guide plate and optical sheets is used, then partial luminance control is achieved, but the device thickness increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepartial luminance controlVSAvoiddevice thickness
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and removes the light guide plate and optical sheets from the backlight unit, retaining only the essential light emitting devices mounted directly on the substrate. This extraction eliminates the thick optical path components while preserving the core light emission function and partial luminance control capability through direct LED control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from a conventional backlight architecture requiring multiple layered optical components to a direct-emission architecture where light emitting devices are mounted directly on the substrate surface. This dimensional simplification reduces the optical path length and eliminates the need for thick light guide plates and optical sheets, achieving thinness without sacrificing luminance control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Length of stationary object

If the backlight unit is simplified to reduce thickness, then device thickness decreases, but luminance uniformity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice thicknessVSAvoidluminance uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of stationary objectVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by controlling individual light emitting devices or small groups of devices independently through separate control circuits. This allows each region to be optimized for uniform light distribution, compensating for the absence of diffusing optical sheets while maintaining overall luminance uniformity across the display surface

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the backlight unit into multiple independently controllable light emitting device regions, each with its own control circuit. This segmentation enables precise local adjustment of light emission to achieve uniform luminance distribution without requiring thick optical diffusion layers, thus maintaining thinness while improving uniformity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This configuration allows for a thinner LCD device with improved luminance uniformity and reduced thickness, as well as the ability to control partial luminance effectively, simplifying the backlight unit configuration by eliminating the need for a light guide plate and optical sheets.

Implementation Method 1

a light emitting device corresponding to the emissive area

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight emitting: Light Emitting Diode

Implementation Method 2

an optical gap between the light emitting device and the liquid crystal layer preventing a hot spot caused by the light emitting device

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHot spot prevention:

Data Source

PatentUS10816849B2Liquid crystal display device
Publication Date: 2020.10.27 LG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a thin thickness. The LCD device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a light source panel coupled to the liquid crystal display panel. The light source panel includes a plurality of emissive areas defined on a base plate, a plurality of light emitting devices respectively disposed in the plurality of emissive areas, and a plurality of concave portions respectively accommodating the plurality of light emitting devices.