This application is a national phase entry under 35 USC 371 of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2018/098367 filed on Aug. 2, 2018, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201721112900.0, filed with the Chinese Patent Office on Sep. 1, 2017, titled “BACKLIGHT MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE”, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to a backlight module and a display apparatus.
At present, people are increasingly favoring ultra-thin liquid crystal displays having low power consumptions, and thus requirements for power consumption and a thickness design of liquid crystal displays are also increasing.
A backlight module is an essential part of the liquid crystal display. In a conventional design of a structure of a backlight module, in order to realize an ultra-thinning of the backlight module, a back plate is usually hollowed out, and a reflective sheet is embedded in a hollowed-out area of the back plate, thereby reducing a thickness of a display module.
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provides a backlight module, and the backlight module includes a light guide plate, a back plate and light sources. The back plate includes a first back plate portion disposed at a side of the light sources away from the light guide plate and a second back plate portion disposed at a side of the light guide plate which is opposite to a light exit side of the light guide plate. The light guide plate is disposed at a side of the light sources, and the light guide plate includes a second light guide portion disposed adjacent to the light sources and a first light guide portion disposed on a side of the second light portion away from the light sources. A thickness of the second light guide portion is greater than a thickness of the first light guide portion.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes optical film layers, and the optical film layers are disposed on a surface of the first light guide portion away from the second back plate portion.
In some embodiments a surface of the first light guide portion adjacent to the second back plate portion is flush with a surface of the second light guide portion adjacent to the second back plate portion, and a distance from a surface of the first light guide portion away from the second back plate portion to the surface of the first light guide portion adjacent to the second back plate portion is less than a distance from a surface of the second light guide portion away from the second back plate portion to the surface of the second light guide portion adjacent to the second back plate portion. A thickness of the optical film layers is less than a distance between the surface of the first light guide portion away from the second back plate portion and the surface of the second light guide portion away from the second back plate portion along a thickness direction of the light guide plate.
In some embodiments, a difference value between the thickness of the first light guide portion and the thickness of the second light guide portion ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm.
In some embodiments, the thickness of the second light guide portion is greater than a thickness of each light source.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes a plurality of protruding portions extending externally from a surface of the second light guide portion adjacent to the light sources. The light sources include a plurality of light-emitting units, and each light-emitting unit is disposed between two adjacent protruding portions.
In some embodiments, a length of each protruding portion along a direction from the first light guide portion to the second light guide portion is greater than a length of a corresponding light-emitting unit along a direction from the first light guide portion to the second light guide portion.
In some embodiments, the second light guide portion is a plurality of protruding portions extending from the first light guide portion; and the light sources are disposed at a light incident side of the second light guide portion and disposed among the plurality of protruding portions as the second light guide portion.
In some embodiments, a thickness of each protruding portion is greater than a thickness of each light source.
In some embodiments, a thickness of each protruding portion is equal to a thickness of the second guide portion.
In some embodiments, a difference value between the thickness of the second light guide portion and the thickness of each light source ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes a light-shielding strip disposed at the a light exit side of the second light guide portion.
In some embodiments, the light-shielding strip covers the second light guide portion and the light source.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes a circuit board disposed between the second back plate portion, and all of the second light guide portion and the light sources.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes a reflective sheet disposed between the first light guide portion and the second back plate portion.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes a fixing tape disposed between the circuit board and the reflective sheet. The fixing tape is connected to the second back plate portion.
In some embodiments, the fixing tape includes a portion disposed between the circuit board and the light guide plate at an edge of the circuit board adjacent to the reflective sheet, a portion between the circuit board and the reflective sheet, and a portion between the second back plate portion and the reflective sheet.
In some embodiments, embodiments of the present disclosure further provides a display apparatus, and the display apparatus includes a display module and the backlight module described above.
In some embodiments, the display module is partially disposed at a side of the second light guide portion away from the second back plate portion, and includes an array substrate disposed at a side of the second light guide portion away from the second back plate portion, and a color film substrate disposed on a side of the array substrate away from the array substrate. The display apparatus further includes: a first polarizer disposed on a surface of the color film substrate away from the array substrate, and an orthographic projection of the first polarizer on the second back plate portion is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the first light guide portion on the second back plate portion; a second polarizer disposed on a surface of the array substrate away from the array substrate, and an orthographic projection of the second polarizer on the second back plate portion is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the optical film layers on the second back plate portion.
In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes a light-shielding strip disposed on surfaces of all of the second light guide portion and the light sources away from the second back plate, and the display module is disposed on a surface of the light-shielding strip away from the second light guide portion.
In order to describe technical solutions in embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the accompanying drawings to be used in the description of embodiments or in the prior art will be introduced briefly. Obviously, the accompanying drawings to be described below are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, and a person of ordinary skill in the art can obtain other drawings according to these drawings without paying any creative effort.
The technical solutions in embodiments of the present disclosure will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in embodiments of the present disclosure. Obviously, the described embodiments are merely some but not all of embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments made on the basis of the embodiments of the present disclosure by a person of ordinary skill in the art without paying any creative effort shall be included in the protection scope of the present disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, it will be understood that orientations or positional relationships indicated by terms “center”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, etc. are based on orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which merely to facilitate and simplify the description of some embodiments of the present disclosure, but not to indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have a particular orientation, or must be constructed or operated in a particular orientation. Therefore, they should not be construed as limitations to the present disclosure.
The terms “first” and “second” are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying the relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Thus, features defined as “first”, “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features. In the description of the present disclosure, “a plurality of” means two or more unless otherwise specified.
In order to enable a person skilled in the art to better understand technical solutions of the present disclosure, a backlight module and a display apparatus provided by the present disclosure are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a difference value between the thickness d2 of the second light guide portion 12 and the thickness d1 of the first light guide portion 11 ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the difference value between the thickness d2 of the second light guide portion 12 and the thickness d1 of the first light guide portion 11 is 0.1 mm.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the thickness d2 of the second light guide portion 12 is 0.65 mm, and the thickness d1 of the first light guide portion 11 is 0.55 mm.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the difference value between the thickness d2 of the second light guide portion 12 and the thickness d1 of the first light guide portion 11 ranges from about 0.05 mm to about 0.1 mm. For example, the difference value between the thickness d2 of the second light guide portion 12 and the thickness d1 of the first light guide portion 11 is about 0.05 mm, about 0.06 mm, about 0.07 mm, about 0.08 mm, or about 0.1 mm.
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In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the backlight module further includes optical film layers 5 and a reflective sheet 6. The optical film layers 5 are disposed at a light exit side of the first light guide portion 11, and the reflective sheet 6 is disposed at another side of the first light guide portion 11 opposite to the light exit side of the first light guide portion 11. A plurality of optical film layers 5 may be provided.
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In some other embodiments of the present disclosure, the thickness of the second light guide portion 12 is greater than a thickness of the light sources 3. For example, a difference value between the thickness of the second light guide portion 12 and the thickness of the light sources 3 ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm. In this way, when the display module is squeezed by an external force, the light sources 3 may be protected against being damaged due to pressure.
In still other embodiments of the present disclosure, the difference value between the thickness of the second light guide portion 12 and the thickness of the light sources 3 ranges from about 0.05 mm to about 0.1 mm.
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In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the second light guide portion 12 itself is formed as a plurality of protruding structures extending from the first light guide portion 11, and the light sources 3 may also be disposed at a light incident side of the first light guide portion 11 and disposed among the plurality of protruding structures of the second light guide portion 12.
Since the thickness of the second light guide portion 12 is greater than the thickness of the first light guide portion 11, in practical applications, the second light guide portion 12 may play a role in supporting the display module, thereby ensuring the structural strength of the display apparatus. On the other hand, each light-emitting unit 31 is located between two adjacent protruding portions 13, that is, each protruding portion 13 is filled between two adjacent light-emitting units 31, thereby ensuring a light-entry effect of the light guide plate 1, effectively preventing a hotspot phenomenon due to a too small ratio of A to P of the light source 3, and protecting the light sources 3 from being squeezed and damaged by the external force. A refers to a distance between a side surface (a light-emitting surface) of the light source adjacent to the light guide plate and an edge of a display area (an AA area), and P refers to a distance between the light sources.
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In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the light sources 3 are disposed on a circuit board 20, and the circuit board 20 is disposed at a side opposite to the light exit side of the light guide plate 1. A plurality of light-emitting units 31 of the light sources 3 may be provided, and the plurality of light-emitting units 31 are disposed on the circuit board 20. The circuit board 20 is disposed at another side of the light guide plate 1 opposite to the light exit side of the light guide plate 1. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the backlight module further includes a first fixing tape 7 for fixing the circuit board 20 to the back plate 2, thereby fixing the light sources 3 to the back plate 2. One end of the first fixing tape 7 is disposed on an edge of the circuit board 20, and another end of the first fixing tape 7 is disposed on the back plate 2, thereby fixing the light sources 3 to the back plate 2.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the backlight module further includes a reflective sheet 6 disposed between the first light guide portion 11 and the back plate 2.
In some embodiments, the first fixing tape 7 extends along an edge of a side of the circuit board 20 adjacent to the light guide plate 1, a side surface of the circuit board 20 adjacent to the reflective sheet 6 and a side of the back plate 2 adjacent to the reflective sheet 6, so as to fix both the circuit board 20 and the reflective sheet 6 to the back plate 2.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the light sources 3 are a light-emitting diodes (LED). For example, the light sources 3 are 3806 LEDs.
When the backlight module is applied into the display apparatus, the backlight module provided by the embodiments may reduce the thickness of the entire display apparatus under a premise of satisfying requirements for a high luminance and a low power consumption of users, for example, the backlight module provided by the embodiments may reduce the thickness of the entire display apparatus to only 1.819 mm, whereas a thinnest thickness of a display apparatus in the prior art is generally only 1.899 mm. The thickness of the backlight module provided by the embodiments is further reduced, so that the thickness of the entire display device may be reduced. A difference between a design thickness of the display apparatus and a standard thickness of the display apparatus is large, and thus the thickness of the display apparatus produced is not easy to exceed a specification (Spec).
In the backlight module provided by the embodiments, the thickness of the second light guide portion is greater than the thickness of the first light guide portion, and thus the optical films or optical film layers may be mounted by utilizing the difference value between the thickness of the first light guide portion and the thickness of the second light guide portion, so as to enable an overall thickness after mounting the optical films or the optical film layers not to exceed the thickness of the second light guide portion. The thickness of the second light guide portion is increased, and in practical applications, the second light guide portion may be configured to support the display module, and thus the back plate may be disposed only at another side of the light guide plate opposite to the light exit side of the light guide plate and a side of the light sources away from the the light guide portion. That is, there is no need for the back plate to adopt a U-shaped structural design, which enables the thickness of the backlight module to be reduced. Thereby, the thickness of the display apparatus is reduced and a risk that the thickness of the display apparatus exceeds the spec is decreased. On the other hand, if the back plate does not adopt the U-shaped structural design, an assembly space may be expanded, so that an assembly of the backlight module is more convenient, thereby improving an assembly efficiency and a yield of the backlight module.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the light incident side of the second light guide portion is provided with protruding portions, and each light source is disposed between two adjacent protruding portions, that is, each protruding portion is filled between two adjacent light sources, thereby ensuring a light-entry effect of the light guide plate 1, effectively preventing a hotspot phenomenon due to a too small ratio of A to P of the light source 3, and protecting the light sources 3 from being squeezed and damaged by the external force.
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The display module 10 may be partially disposed on the light-shielding strip 4. For example, as shown in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the display module 10 further includes a second fixing tape 81 disposed between the array substrate 8 and the light-shielding strip 4. A portion of the array substrate 8 is fixed to the light-shielding strip 4 by the second fixing tape 81.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the display module 10 further includes a first polarizer 31 and a second polarizer 32. The first polarizer 31 is disposed at a side of the color film substrate 9 away from the array substrate 8 and disposed above the first light guide portion 11. The second polarizer 32 is disposed at a side of the array substrate 8 close to the light guide plate 1 and disposed above the optical film layers 5.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the display apparatus further includes a frame 33 disposed at a side of the display module 10 away from the light guide plate 1 and disposed at an outer side of the back plate 2. In other words, an outer side of the display module 10 and the outer side of the back plate 2 are covered by the frame 33, and the frame 33 may further serve to fix the display module 10 and the backlight module 20.
Specific descriptions of the backlight module 20 in the embodiments may refer to the foregoing embodiments, and are not described herein again.
In the display apparatus provided by the embodiments, the thickness of the second light guide portion is greater than the thickness of the first light guide portion, and there is no need for the back plate to adopt a U-shaped structural design, so that the thickness of the backlight module is reduced, thereby reducing the thickness of the display apparatus and reducing the risk that the thickness of the display apparatus exceeds the spec. On the other hand, if the back plate does not adopt the U-shaped structural design, the assembly space may be expanded, so that the assembly of the backlight module is more convenient, thereby improving the assembly efficiency and the yield of the backlight module. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the light incident side of the second light guide portion is provided with protruding portions, and each light source is disposed between two adjacent protruding portions, that is, each protruding portion is filled between two adjacent light sources, thereby ensuring a light-entry effect of the light guide plate, effectively preventing a hotspot phenomenon due to a too small ratio of A to P of the light source, and protecting the light sources from being squeezed and damaged by the external force. In the description of the embodiments described above, specific features, structures, materials or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The above embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments employed to explain the principles of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Various modifications and improvements can be made by one person skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure, and such modifications and improvements are also within the scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall be subjected to the protection scope of the claims.
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