Abstract: The present invention provides a low-cost and highly heat-radiating lighting system and a display apparatus using the same. The lighting system has a plurality of packages, each containing LEDs, lead frames and a transparent sealing material, a heat-radiating substrate and an adhesive layer adapted to bond the packages and the heat-radiating substrate. The lead frames are 0.1 mm or more in thickness. Further, the area of the surfaces of the heat-radiating substrate and the lead frames bonded together via the adhesive layer is 70 mm2 per 1 mm2 area of the LEDs. The display apparatus of the present invention uses the lighting system as the backlight thereof.

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 liquid crystal display device of the present invention is configured of a liquid crystal display unit for displaying an image, a backlight unit controllable for each color that radiates light at the liquid crystal display unit, a display controller for controlling a display of the liquid crystal display unit, and an emission control circuit for controlling an emission of the each color of the backlight unit, wherein the emission control circuit performs control so that emission start timing and emission end timing in a sequential emission period of the each color of the backlight unit match in all colors.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display, a backlight unit for emitting rays of light of three or more colors, the ray of each color being controlled, and applying these rays of light onto the liquid crystal display. A controller is further provided for controlling a change of display data of each color of the liquid crystal display and an emitted light quantity of each color of the backlight unit at a time, based on a video signal being inputted for displaying the corresponding image and an output signal sent from an ambient light sensor for sensing ambient light.

Abstract: A cold-cathode tube has hitherto been used as a backlight for supplying illumination to a liquid crystal television but recently, light emitting diode pieces have been used for a backlight of a large-size liquid crystal television. For the purpose of improving the emission efficiency, flip chip mounting of the light emitting diode piece is advantageous but the mounting yield is restricted by the piece size, electrode structure and wire pattern structure, facing situations having difficulties in realizing simplified mounting and reduction of costs of members. In a liquid crystal display apparatus having a liquid crystal panel, an optical system and a light source, the light source includes a light emitting element structure having positive and negative electrodes, at least one of them being plural, and wires mounted to the positive and negative electrodes through flip chip mounting by making electrical correspondence to individual regions of the positive and negative electrodes.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display appliance for controlling a plurality of divided area in the display screen. In order to achieve the above object, the liquid crystal display appliance according to the present invention includes a lighting apparatus which includes a light source, and an light guide plate to diffuse lights from the light source to obtain a surface light source; and a liquid crystal panel which is placed opposed to the lighting apparatus and includes a liquid crystal layer. The light guide plate is made by bonding a plurality of transparent light guide members each of which has a different refractive index greater than 1.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates having a polarizer, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates of the pair, a color filter layer sandwiched between one of the substrates of the pair and the liquid crystal layer, a light source for supplying light to the pair of substrates, the liquid crystal layer, and the color filter layer. The color filter layer includes three filters for displaying blue, green and red. The green filter of the three filters selectively includes an absorbing component capable of absorbing a light spectrum within a wavelength range from 400 nm to 500 nm.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid-crystal-layer 15 in which an electrical field is applied in a direction parallel to a first substrate. Respective absorption axes of the first substrate provided with a first polarizing-plate 12 on a light-input side and a second substrate provided with a second polarizing-plate 11 on a light-output side are perpendicular. An optical axis of the liquid-crystal-molecule is parallel to the output polarizing-plate 11 and the absorption axis of the input polarizing-plate 12. A matrix-drive-electrode group is positioned on a side of the liquid-crystal-layer 15 of the first or second substrate. The input and output polarizing-plate are composed of a polarizing layer and a supporting-substrate material. The supporting-substrate material is present on the liquid-crystal-layer side of the polarizing layer. The supporting-substrate material of one of the input or output polarizing-plate is birefringent, and the Nz coefficient being 4 or more.

Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid crystal display device having a thin structure with a backlight device appropriate for illuminating a liquid crystal panel where there is no area in band form where the brightness is inconsistent. The size of the diffusion plate 103b that forms the optical sheet 134 of the backlight device 103 is made smaller than the opening for illumination Do in the diffusion region D, and the diffusion plate 103b is not provided in the vicinity of the end portions of the opening for illumination Do in the configuration. In this configuration, the reflection properties are different between in the vicinity of the end portions and the center portion of the opening for illumination Do, and the brightness increases in the vicinity of the end portions of the backlight device 103, so that an area in band form where the brightness is inconsistent can be prevented from being created in the end portions of the liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display appliance in which portions of a liquid crystal display panel over luminescent lamps are not seen extraordinarily brighter and brightness of the liquid crystal display panel does not lower significantly at portions in the vicinity of the vertical direction edge of the liquid crystal display panel if a lighting system becomes thinner than 20 mm. This liquid crystal display appliance comprises a lighting system, in which a distance D between light reflector sheet 5 and a light diffuser plate 11 is between 7 and 13 mm, the distance D and an interval p between 2 adjacent luminescent lamps satisfy an inequality, p?1.34×D+9, and the distance D and a length e between a boundary between an upper edge surface 6a and an inclined surface 5b of the light diffuser plate 11 and a nearest luminescent lamp from the boundary satisfy another inequality, e?1.6×D+4.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device having excellent uniformity in the brightness so that the performance of displays of liquid crystal can be increased. A liquid crystal display device is provided with: a support member: a heat releasing member provided on this support member; a light guiding plate 121 provided on a rear surface of a liquid crystal panel; and a light source module 124 which is thermally secured to the heat releasing member so as to face an entrance surface 121a formed on one or two sides in the direction of the length of the light guiding plate 121 and has a light source for emitting a light beam toward the entrance surface 121a, wherein the light source is covered with a lens 124c in the light source module 124, and the distance D between the lens 124c and the entrance surface 121a when the light source module 124 is not driven is set within a certain range.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal apparatus in which a white light of a fluorescent tube corresponding to a linear light source repeats plural times of diffusions and reflections between a reflection sheet and a diffusion plate, and is thereafter input as a back light to a liquid crystal panel corresponding to a display screen, an object of the invention is to make it possible to secure a brightness uniformity even if the liquid crystal apparatus is thinned. It is possible to prevent a brightness unevenness caused by a short distance from the reflection sheet to the diffusion plate, by preventing a deformation (a deformation which is convex toward the fluorescent tube) of the diffusion plate due to a thermal expansion of the diffusion plate caused by a heat generation of the fluorescent tube, by arranging at least one pin mold hold so as to support a portion near an approximately center of the diffusion plate.

Abstract: An illumination device has at least one fluorescent tube, a lower frame supporting the fluorescent tube, a light diffusion plate which opposes the lower frame with the fluorescent tube being interposed therebetween for forward diffusion of output light of the fluorescent tube, a reflection sheet disposed along the fluorescent tube side of the lower frame for reflecting the fluorescent light toward the light diffuser plate, and an upside reflector covering an electrode of the fluorescent tube for reflecting the light toward the light diffuser. When letting a direction along a length of the fluorescent tube be a horizontal direction, a distance between the fluorescent tube and the reflection sheet at at least one of nearby portions of right and left ends of the illuminator is greater than such distance at a central portion thereof. A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus using the illuminator is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid-crystal display device capable of reducing leakage of light under a black state due to scattering from a liquid-crystal layer, and having high-contrast ratio, excellent image quality performance. The liquid-crystal display device comprises: a liquid-crystal panel including one pair of polarizers disposed on one pair of substrates, a liquid-crystal layer held in sandwiched form between the pair of substrates, and a group of electrodes formed on at least one of the pair of substrates for applying an electric field to the liquid-crystal layer; and a light source unit disposed outside the pair of substrates. The liquid-crystal layer includes a liquid-crystal material having an ordinary-light refractive index of at least 1.46, but up to 1.49, an extraordinary-light refractive index of at least 1.54, but up to 1.59, and a mean photoelastic constant of at least 8, but up to 25, and exhibiting a nematic phase.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having polarizers, and a back light having a light source for illumination of the liquid crystal panel which has a characteristic of spectral transmittance required to satisfy the following equation, x>y>z, when a medium tone display voltage varies in a range between a minimum and maximum voltage for a Blue pixel, where “x” is a value of the transmittance in the panel at a wavelength corresponding to a longest wavelength in a range of wavelengths designated for blue light, “y” is a value of the transmittance in the panel at a wavelength corresponding to a maximum value of the intensity in a range of wavelengths designated for green light, and “z” is a value of the transmittance in the panel at a wavelength corresponding to a maximum value of the intensity in a range of wavelengths designated for red light.

Abstract: A normally-closed liquid crystal display includes a component to selectively absorb characteristic leakage light occurring at black representation. Therefore, when black is displayed, occurrence of unnecessary leakage light due to partial depolarization of polarized light caused by a component of an LCD panel can be suppressed. It is therefore possible to provide a liquid crystal display in which display performance of black is improved to clearly display black.

Abstract: A thin light source unit employs a plurality of light emitting diode chips in multiple colors to generate highly uniform white light at a low cost and with a high light utilization efficiency. The light source unit has light emitting diode chips, lead frames, and a transparent sealer. A plurality of the light emitting diode chips in the same color are connected in series to three or more sets of the lead frames. The light emitting diode chips in at least three different colors are integrally sealed with the transparent sealer. An illuminating apparatus using the light source units, and a display apparatus using the illuminating apparatus are also provided.

Abstract: To reduce an oblique luminance disturbance and color deterioration in a liquid crystal display device of the IPS mode.

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: A light illumination apparatus and a liquid crystal display using the apparatus, comprising a light source on a lateral side and a reflector on the backside of a light-pipe, further comprising an air layer between the light-pipe and the reflector, further comprising a light scattering control layer disposed at a portion of the light-pipe and having directivity in a direction substantially normal to the light emission plane, where total internal reflection of the incident light from the light source at an interface of the light-pipe is achieved, and a means for moving the predetermined region, wherein the time average amount of emitted light is substantially equal in each of all light emission regions, and there is time when the light emissive region substantially does not emit light.