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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2010
Yasumori Kuromizu, Osaka, JP;
Yasumori Kuromizu, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to configure a lighting device to discriminate the front and back sides of a substrate at low costs. In the lighting device of the present invention, a diffuser plateas an optical memberincludes: a light-transmissive substrate; an optical patternformed on the substrateand applying an optical action to light; and a discrimination patternconfigured to discriminate between a first position (normal position) of the substrateand a second position (non-normal position) of the substratereversed from the first position, formed on a first planethat is a surface of the substrateon which the optical patternis formed, and made of the same material as that of the optical pattern