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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A light guide plate has a light introducing portion configured to confine light that is incident from an end surface, and a light guide-plate main body configured to emit incident light to an outside from a light emitting surface and provided continuously with the light introducing portion in a thickness smaller than a maximum thickness of the light introducing portion. The light introducing portion has an inclined surface inclined toward the light guide-plate main body from a surface having a larger thickness than a thickness of the light guide-plate main body, on at least one of a surface at a light emission side and a surface opposite to the surface at the light emission side.