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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2007
Hirokazu Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Ode, Tochigi, JP;
Hirokazu Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Ode, Tochigi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A backlight device illuminates a transmissive liquid crystal panel from a rear surface thereof, and includes light source substrates, a reflecting sheet, a diffusing-guiding plate, and an optical-function-sheet layered body. The substrates have light-emitting elements for illuminating illumination light. The reflecting sheet has the substrates mounted to one surface thereof, has an opening formed in correspondence with the light-emitting elements, allows the light-emitting elements to be exposed at another surface of the reflecting sheet from the opening, and reflects the illumination light from the light-emitting elements by the another surface. The plate faces the another surface side of the sheet at a predetermined interval from the reflecting sheet, and diffuses in a layer thereof the illumination light incident from the reflecting sheet. The layered body is combined to the plate, includes laminated optical function sheets, and guides the illumination light to the panel.