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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Ansan-si, KR;

Inventors:

David G Pelka, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Meg Tidd, Arvada, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 13/02 (2006.01); F21V 3/00 (2015.01); F21V 5/00 (2015.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/133605 (2013.01); G02F 1/133603 (2013.01); G02F 1/133606 (2013.01); G02F 2001/133607 (2013.01);
Abstract

A light-emitting diode (LED) backlight unit includes a housing, an LED array disposed on a bottom surface of the housing, an optical film stack disposed on the LED array, and a baffled micro-optical element (BMOE) disposed between the LED array and the optical film stack. The thickness of the backlight unit is 12 mm or less, a first portion of light emitted from each LED of the LED array is configured to directly contact the optical film stack and a second portion of light emitting from each LED of the LED array is configured to be reflected off of the BMOE and onto the optical film stack, and the first and second portions of light combine to create surface illuminance on the optical film stack having a uniformity greater than 70%.


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