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
Engineering 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
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
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
2Length of stationary object
If the backlight unit is simplified to reduce thickness, then device thickness decreases, but luminance uniformity deteriorates
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
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
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
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
Data Source
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.


