Backlight Module Quantum Tube Bending for Narrow Frame

Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional backlight modules with quantum tubes face issues of failure edges that increase the side frame width, making it difficult to achieve a narrow frame design while maintaining high color gamut in liquid crystal display devices.

Innovation Solution

A backlight module design featuring a quantum tube with bending sections at its ends, positioned away from the incident surface, and aligned parallel to lamp sources, which are fixed using double-side tape, allowing for a compact structure that prevents failure edge issues and maintains high color gamut without increasing the side frame width.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If quantum tubes are installed between lamp sources and light guide plate to improve color gamut, then color gamut is improved, but side frame width increases due to failure edges

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The quantum tube ends are bent from a linear arrangement to a curved configuration, changing the spatial dimension of the failure edges. By bending the quantum tube ends away from the incident surface direction, the failure edges are relocated to the side surfaces of the light guide plate rather than extending to the incident surface, thus preventing side frame width increase while maintaining color gamut improvement

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

Solution Approach 2:

The bending sections are extracted from the main body of the quantum tube and positioned separately at the side surfaces of the light guide plate. This separation removes the failure edges from the critical incident surface area, allowing the quantum tube to maintain its color enhancement function without compromising the narrow frame design

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

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 design effectively prevents failure edge issues and allows for a narrow frame arrangement by positioning the bending sections of the quantum tube away from the incident surface, ensuring high color gamut and reducing the side frame width of the backlight module.

Implementation Method 1

the quantum dot is quasi-zero-dimensional nano material, and constructed by a small amount of atoms; the diameters are generally between 1-10 nm. Because the electrons and holes are in quantum confinement, and the continuous energy band structure becomes the discrete energy level structure with molecule property, which can irradiate fluorescent light after being excited and then can change the color gamut of the coming light.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectQuantum confinement:

Implementation Method 2

which can irradiate fluorescent light after being excited and then can change the color gamut of the coming light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluorescence: Fluorescence

Implementation Method 3

The quantum tube and the surface of the substrate provided with the lamp sources are fixed with a double-side tape

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesion: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentUS10393951B2Backlight module and display device
Publication Date: 2019.08.27
  • US10393951B2 patent drawing
  • US10393951B2 patent drawing

AI summary

The present invention provides a backlight module, wherein the backlight module comprises a glue frame, a backlight source, a light guide plate, a quantum tube and an optical thin film, and the light guide plate comprises an incident surface and an illuminating surface, and the backlight source comprises a substrate and a plurality of lamp sources on the substrate aligned in a straight line, and the quantum tube comprises a mainbody and two bending sections at two ends of the mainbody, and the glue frame is arranged to surround the light guide plate and periphery of the optical thin film, and the quantum tube is installed on the substrate and arranged to be parallel with the plurality of lamp sources, and bending sections at the two ends of the mainbody are located at outer sides of the lamp sources at two ends of the plurality of the lamp sources.