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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2018
Japan Display Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Shigenori Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Harada, Tokyo, JP;
Naoyuki Takasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Display Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light source, clad, and a plurality of cores. The clad includes a first edge at a light source side, a second edge opposite to the first edge, and a plurality of grooves formed by a plurality of partitions extending in parallel to each other from the first edge to the second edge. The cores are accommodated in the grooves, and each core includes an incident surface on which light from the light source is incident and an exit surface exposed from the groove to emit the light incident on the incident surface.