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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Satoshi Imoto, Tanashi, JP;
Assignee:
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350345 ;
Abstract
A device for back-lighting a liquid crystal display device has a lamp having a light emitting straight portion and a reflector plate. The reflector plate has a central portion provided under the light emitting straight portion and a pair of inclined side portions adjacent both sides of the central portion, the central portion having a total reflection surface, and each the side portion having a diffuse reflection surface.