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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2011
Yasuhisa Shiraishi, Mobara, JP;
Atsushi Tsuruoka, Mobara, JP;
Shigeki Nishizawa, Mobara, JP;
Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Chiba, JP;
Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Hyogo-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A light guide plate is for reflecting incident light from an end surface thereof in an inside to obtain surface emission from a front surface thereof. The light guide plate includes protrusions and recesses formed on one of the front surface and a rear surface on an opposite side of the front surface. The protrusions and recesses are formed of a shape in which first mountain-range shapes each including a first ridge continuing along a first direction, which is a direction toward the inside from the end surface, and second mountain-range shapes each including a second ridge continuing along a second direction intersecting with the first direction are combined. Each first mountain-range shape includes a pair of first side surfaces on both sides of the first ridge. Each second mountain-range shape includes a pair of second side surfaces on both sides of the second ridge.