Abstract: An illumination device including a plurality of light source modules. Each of the plurality of light source modules includes a substrate, a plurality of wiring lines provided on the substrate, and a plurality of LED devices implemented in the wiring lines. The plurality of LED devices include a plurality of red LED devices, a plurality of green LED devices, and a plurality of blue LED devices, wherein the plurality of wiring lines include a wiring line having the plurality of red LED devices implemented in series, a wiring line having the plurality of green LED devices implemented in series, and a wiring line having the plurality of blue LED devices implemented in series. The plurality of wiring lines are connected in parallel and are driven by a single power voltage.

Abstract: In order to improve an external quantum efficiency of an organic light-emitting element, a first light extraction layer is formed over the surface of a second substrate on the side where the second substrate is present, a second light extraction layer is formed over the surface of the second substrate on the other side, the first and second light extraction layers contain fine particles and a binder, the average particle diameter of the fine particles contained in the first and second light extraction layers are 0.05 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less and 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, respectively, and an optical length L1 between the emission point of the light emitting layer and a first electrode satisfies (2m?155/180)?0/4/cos 35°?L1?(2m?155/180)?0/4/cos 50°, where ?0 is a center emission wavelength of the light emitting layer and m is an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source module, the module comprising: a substrate; a plurality of wiring lines provided on the substrate; and a plurality of LED devices implemented in the wiring lines: wherein the plurality of LED devices include a plurality of red LED devices, a plurality of green LED devices, and a plurality of blue LED devices: wherein the plurality of wiring lines include a wiring line having the plurality of red LED devices implemented in series, a wiring line having the plurality of green LED devices implemented in series, and a wiring line having the plurality of blue LED devices implemented in series; and wherein the plurality of wiring lines are connected in parallel and driven by a single power voltage.

Abstract: An adhesive sheet 1 including a binder 3 and adhesive particles 2 mixed in the binder 3 in which the adhesive particle 2 includes an inorganic particle 21 and a polymer 22, the inorganic particle 21 is chemically bonded with the polymer 22, a portion of the adhesive particles 2 is exposed to the surface of the binder 3, the refractive index of the inorganic particle 21 is higher than the refractive index of the binder 3, and the adhesion of the adhesive particle 21 larger than the adhesion of the inorganic particle 21. An adhesive sheet having high refractive index and high adhesion, as well as an optical member and an organic member and an organic light emission device can be provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and an illuminating device having a plurality of LED packages which include LED's and a lens. Each LED package includes a high refractive index member containing a substance having a larger refractive index than that of a material forming the lens and which seals the LED. The lens is shaped to have a recess near its center, and is shaped so that a moving radius increases as a polar angle increases within a range of 0 to 80 degrees. The moving radius is defined as a distance starting from the lens center and ending in the lens surface, and the polar angle is defined as an angle that is made by the moving radius to the center axis that is vertical to a plane on which said LED package is located and passing through the center of the lens.

Abstract: The suspended particle device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode and a suspension disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first electrode is formed on the first substrate, the second electrode and the third electrode are formed on the second substrate, the suspension includes light-control particles and a disperse medium, the light-control particles are charged, an orientation state of the light-control particles is controlled by applying AC voltage to at least any one of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode, and the light-control particles are dispersed in the suspension or biased to the third electrode by applying DC voltage to at least one of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid-crystal display device which includes a diffuser board that does not produce striped mura on the surface of a liquid crystal panel even if point light sources are used as light sources of a backlight. A backlight apparatus 103 is provided with a diffuser board 103b having diffusion portions 103b1. At each of the diffusion portions 103b1, the light L emitted by a LED module 104 included in a light source unit 103a is reflected by prism patterns P and diffused around the LED module 104. Then, the diffused light is reflected again by a reflecting surface formed on the inner surface of a housing 103c and emitted from the backlight apparatus 103, thereby achieving illuminating light without mura.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode has a reflection electrode, an organic layer with a luminous point, a transparent electrode, an output-side substrate, and a light scattering layer in contact with the output-side substrate. The light scattering layer is made of a base material and particles contained therein. These particles are higher in refractive index than the base material and the output-side substrate. The luminous point emits light at an emission peak wavelength ? (nm). Letting a height from an interface between the electrode and the organic layer to the luminous point be “a×d” (where d (nm) is the thickness of the organic layer, 0<a<1), the height satisfies: (2m?155/180)?/4/n/cos 35°?a×d?(2m?155/180)?/4/n/cos 50° (where n is the refractive index of the organic layer, and m is an integer larger than or equal to 1).

Abstract: An illuminating device capable of being produced at low costs and irradiating rays of light uniformly to a liquid crystal panel. The illuminating device has a plurality of LED packages each having LED's and a lens, the LED packages being congregated on a plane in a large area. Each of the LED packages includes at least four LED's corresponding to LED's for emitting at least red, green and blue, and at least two of the LED's in each LED package are positioned symmetrically to the center of the lens and emit the same color.

Abstract: An illuminating apparatus has a reduced number of mounting spots by soldering or the like to permit an increased yield rate and a reduced cost. The illuminating apparatus has light emitting diodes, lead frames, and a transparent sealer. N light emitting diodes, N sets of lead frames mounted with the N light emitting diodes, and one set or more of lead frames each not mounted with a light emitting diode are sealed by the transparent sealer for integration into a modular illuminating apparatus. Also provided are a method for fabricating the illuminating apparatus, and a display apparatus using the illuminating apparatus.

Abstract: A widely applicable and low cost module substrate with a high accuracy, reliability and heat-radiation structure. A light source includes: a heat radiation substrate; an insulating layer formed in some regions in an upper surface of the substrate; a wiring layer having wiring patterns, the wiring layer being arranged on the insulating layer; and a plurality of LED elements connected to the wiring layer. Moreover, the light source includes: a heat radiation substrate; an insulating layer arranged in some regions in an upper surface of the substrate; a wiring layer having wiring patterns, the wiring layer being arranged on the insulating layer; and LED elements connected to the wiring layer, wherein the insulating layer has two layers of a resin layer arranged in the wiring layer side and an adhesive layer arranged in the heat radiation substrate side.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting diode devices mounted therein and the light emitting diode device includes a substrate, a light emission area having a light emitting layer and a clad layer formed by growing crystal on the substrate, a negative polarity and a positive polarity. The light emission area has 6 or more opposite corners, which are disposed symmetrically to the middle of the light emitting diode device.

Abstract: Each of first electrodes has a width smaller than the width of each of second electrodes in one direction on the plane of a display substrate. The second electrodes are applied with a voltage which is modulated independently on a pixel-by-pixel basis to move electrophoretic particles, thereby displaying an image.

Abstract: An illuminating device capable of being produced at low costs and irradiating rays of light uniformly to a liquid crystal panel. The illuminating device has a plurality of LED packages each having LED's and a lens, the LED packages being congregated on a plane in a large area. Each of the LED packages includes at least four LED's corresponding to LED's for emitting at least red, green and blue, and at least two of the LED's in each LED package are positioned symmetrically to the center of the lens and emit the same color.

Abstract: A display device configured to realize a high display quality by correcting irregularity, caused by a lighting unit, by signal processing. The target light quantity in a displayed image of the liquid crystal panel is set, the estimated light quantity at each pixel location in the plane of the backlight is calculated, matrix coefficients are calculated based on the estimated light quantity and the target light quantity, image signals are subjected to matrix operations using the matrix coefficients, and the liquid crystal panel is driven by image signals resulting from the matrix operations. Therefore, the light quantity distribution in the displayed image becomes identical to the target light quantity distribution.

Abstract: A substrate with plane patterns formed in a liquid process wherein the plane patterns are formed based on a combination of plane shapes by which a difference in internal pressure of a solution between any two points of the solution is small, the solution being ejected onto the substrate so as to form the plane patterns by the liquid process.

Abstract: A reference voltage line is synchronously scanned with scanning of a scanning signal line, voltage of the reference voltage line is set to be the voltage of a common electrode, the second transistor is set to be OFF state during the reference voltage line is set in the common voltage for a pixel wherein a node between an image signal memory and said second transistor is set in a voltage so that said second transistor becomes OFF and the voltage of image signal line is set to be high voltage level when the voltage of the scanning signal line changes from low voltage level to high voltage level for the pixel wherein the node between the image signal memory and the second transistor is set in a voltage so that said second transistor becomes ON.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with a backlight module including a light-emitting diode (LED)-based illumination device is disclosed. The illumination device includes more than one LED of the waveguide type for use as a light source of the backlight. The LCD panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal (LC) layer interposed between these substrates, and a polarization plate. Output light of the LED is linearly polarized in advance. A waveguide is arranged for giving off polarized light components from the LED only in a chosen direction to thereby permit incidence in parallel with a polarized light transmission direction of the LCD polarizer plate. The LED is amounted and arranged so that the polarized light transmission direction of the polarizer plate is the same as the polarization direction through an optical system associated therewith.

Abstract: An illumination device has a plurality of sealing structures each including a light-emitting diode, sealed by a high refractive index transparent material member which is further sealed by a low refractive index transparent material member. To increase a divergence angle of light radiation, the portion of the high refractive index transparent material member which covers an upper surface of the light-emitting diode is structured so as to satisfy a relation H>(L/2)/tan {sin?1(n1/n2)}, where H represents a thickness of the high refractive index transparent material member measured at the central portion of the upper surface of the light-emitting diode, L represents the length of one side of the upper surface of the light-emitting diode, n1 represents the refractive index of the high refractive index transparent material member and n2 represents the refractive index of the low refractive index transparent material member.

Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination device capable of improving an efficiency of acquiring light emitted by light emitting diodes, which are provided in a light source module and used as a light source, and capable of achieving a uniform luminance distribution, and provides a liquid crystal display device using the illumination device. The illumination device includes a circuit board, red, green and blue light emitting diodes, and a lens body. Each red, green and blue light emitting diode is mounted on the circuit board and connected with a wiring pattern formed on the circuit board. The lens covers the red, green and blue light emitting diodes, and includes first portions each having two first side surfaces and second portions each having two second side surfaces. The first and second portions are alternately arranged. A distance between the first side surfaces is larger than a distance between the second side surfaces.