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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2022
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Yuhsin Lu, Changhua County, TW;
Bharat R. Acharya, Woodbury, MN (US);
Adam D. Haag, Woodbury, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A backlight includes a plurality of light sources, a reflective polarizer disposed on the plurality of light sources, and an optical film disposed between the reflective polarizer and the plurality of discrete spaced apart light sources. For a substantially collimated incident light, for a visible wavelength range, and for a first incident angle of less than about 5 degrees, the reflective polarizer has an average optical reflectance of at least 60% when the incident light is p-polarized and an average optical transmittance of at least 60% when the incident light is s-polarized. For the average of p-polarized and s-polarized incident lights and the visible wavelength range, the optical film has an average optical transmittance T1 for the first incident angle, and an average transmittance T2 for a second incident angle of greater than about 35 degrees, such that T1/T2≥1.5.