Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kazuhisa Murata

Hiroyuki Katayama

Masaaki Katoh

An LED lamps capable of composing a display panel that is installed at any outdoor place and capable of displaying an image thereon with a high contrast under any working conditions at any place. The LED lamp comprises at least one LED chip for emitting visible light, a lead frame comprising a common part and separate parts for supplying electric power to each of electrode terminals of the LED chip and a transparent resin part disposed on the common lead frame for mounting the LED chip and converging light emitted from the LED chip, wherein the LED-chip-mounted surface is provided with an anti-reflection black-colored layer for absorbing light. The LED chip may be a four-element LED chip composed of an active layer of AlGaInP and the light-absorbing layer formed from any of black silver sulfide, silver oxide, iron oxide, chromium oxide, black silver paste and black copper paste.

LED lamp configured to minimize image contrast

Each of many two-color light emitting diode elements which make up a display panel includes two light emitting diode chips emitting light of different colors. These elements are so arranged in the panel that chips emitting light of the same color are adjacent to each other in the direction along which two chips in each of these elements are aligned and that chips emitting light of different colors are alternately aligned along the direction perpendicular thereto.

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Tenri, Japan

Kazuhisa Murata