Light Guide Plate Fixing Hole Light Bouncing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional edge-type backlight units in LCD displays face issues with light bouncing at fixing holes, leading to non-uniform brightness and increased manufacturing complexity due to the need for black taping, which becomes costly and complicated, especially as display sizes increase.

Innovation Solution

A display device with a light guide plate featuring a lens part on one surface and a double pattern part on the other, including a first pattern part for scattering light and a second pattern part with deeper depressions and straight line patterns adjacent to fixing holes to reduce light propagation towards the holes, preventing light bouncing and ensuring uniform brightness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If black tape is attached to fixing holes to prevent light bouncing, then light uniformity is improved, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrightness uniformityVSAvoidmanufacturing process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the external black tape component and extracts the light-blocking function directly into the light guide plate structure by forming black-colored pattern parts (first and second pattern parts) integrally with the light guide plate through injection molding, thereby eliminating the separate taping process while maintaining light uniformity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the light-blocking function (previously performed by separate black tape) with the light guide plate structure itself by integrating the first pattern part and second pattern part into the light guide plate as integral components, combining multiple functions into a single molded piece

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Illumination intensity

If black tape is attached to fixing holes to prevent light bouncing, then light uniformity is improved, but manufacturing cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrightness uniformityVSAvoidmanufacturing cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent eliminates the separate black tape material cost and the additional labor costs associated with the taping process by extracting the light-blocking function into the injection molding process itself, where the first and second pattern parts are formed integrally with the light guide plate in a single manufacturing step

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The light guide plate structure provides its own light-blocking function through the integrated first and second pattern parts that are self-formed during injection molding, eliminating the need for external materials and separate manufacturing processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Stability of the object's composition

If the number of fixing holes is increased for larger display devices, then structural stability is improved, but light blocking increases and brightness uniformity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidbrightness uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different pattern configurations locally around each fixing hole (first pattern part near the hole, second pattern part further away) with varying depths and densities to locally control light scattering and blocking, allowing multiple fixing holes to be present while maintaining overall brightness uniformity through localized optical management

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses an excessive amount of light scattering and blocking action in the regions around fixing holes through the first and second pattern parts, which are designed to compensate for the light-blocking effect of the holes themselves, ensuring that even with multiple holes the overall brightness remains uniform

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

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

The solution effectively prevents light bouncing at fixing holes, ensuring uniform brightness across the display and simplifying the manufacturing process by eliminating the need for black taping, thus improving productivity and reducing costs while maintaining high image quality.

Implementation Method 1

The lens part may be interposed between the display panel and the backlight unit, and configured to transmit the light output from the backlight unit

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight transmission: Light

Implementation Method 2

a first pattern part configured to scatter the incident light output from the optical module

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight scattering: Scattering

Implementation Method 3

a second pattern part provided adjacent to the fixing hole... configured to scatter, reflect and absorb light incident to the fixing hole

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight scattering: Scattering

Implementation Method 4

a second pattern part provided adjacent to the fixing hole... configured to scatter, reflect and absorb light incident to the fixing hole

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight absorption: Absorption (EM radiation)

Data Source

PatentEP2806207B1Display device
Publication Date: 2018.02.21 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit configured to output light to the display panel, and a lens part interposed between the display panel and the backlight unit, and configured to transmit the light output from the backlight unit is transmitted, wherein the backlight unit includes an optical module configured to output the light, and a light guide plate configured to form a light path through which the light that is output from the optical module and incident on the light guide plate is transmitted and to scatter the incident light, the light guide plate including a fixing hole, a first pattern part configured to scatter the incident light output from the optical module, and a second pattern part provided adjacent to the fixing hole.