US 12,189,173 B2
Light emitting unit, liquid crystal module, display device, and lighting system
Takeshi Yamamoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by SATURN LICENSING LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/214,730.
Application 18/214,730 is a continuation of application No. 17/883,657, filed on Aug. 9, 2022, granted, now 11,726,255.
Application 17/883,657 is a continuation of application No. 16/096,067, granted, now 11,460,630, issued on Oct. 4, 2022, previously published as PCT/JP2017/011629, filed on Mar. 23, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-104062 (JP), filed on May 25, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0408753 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G02F 1/13357 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/0088 (2013.01) [G02F 1/133308 (2013.01); G02F 1/133608 (2013.01); G02F 1/133317 (2021.01); G02F 1/133615 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display comprising:
a display panel,
a light emitting unit that faces the display panel in a first direction and illuminates the display panel,
a frame member that is a unitary structure having an anterior portion extending over a peripheral face region of the display panel and holds peripheries of the display panel and the light emitting unit, and
a buffer sheet,
wherein the light emitting unit includes:
a support substrate that is disposed to face the display panel;
a light guide member that is provided between the display panel and the support substrate, and has a first end surface and a second end surface;
a light source that is disposed to face the first end surface; and
a holding member that is provided between the display panel and the support substrate along an outer edge of the support substrate, and has a facing surface joined to at least one end surface of the light guide member, and
wherein
the buffer sheet is between the frame member and a surface on a side of the display panel opposite to the light emitting unit and has elasticity, and
the buffer sheet has a light shielding property.