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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Masayuki Shinohara, Nagaokakyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Tanoue, Otsu, JP;
Kazuhide Hirota, Moriyama, JP;
Koichi Takemura, Konan, JP;
Takuma Iwase, Ritto, JP;
Takako Ishikawa, Kusatsu, JP;
Yoshihiro Ueno, Kusatsu, JP;
Morihisa Ota, Kusatsu, JP;
Jun Kishimoto, Ogaki, JP;
Gouo Kurata, Kusatsu, JP;
Yukihiro Takahashi, Nagaokakyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Yasu, JP;
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A light guide plate has a light incident surface configured to be arranged facing a point light source for introducing light from the point light source, a light outputting surface that outputs the light to an outside of the light guide plate, a light introducing section for confining the light from the point light source entered from the light incident surface, and a light guide plate main body having a thickness smaller than a maximum thickness of the light introducing section and being arranged to be continuous with the light introducing section, for outputting the confined light to the outside of the light guide plate from the light outputting surface by a light outputting element.