US 12,405,490 B2
Display device and means of transportation
Manrico Joesph, Ober-Ramstadt (DE); Oliver Jakoby, Heusenstamm (DE); Sait Kalender, Darmstadt (DE); Jörg Thomas, Dietzenbach (DE); Martin Thomas Nowak, Singapore (SG); and Kerstin Thiel, Hannover (DE)
Assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Hannover (DE)
Filed by Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Hannover (DE)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/761,842.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2023 206 277.1 (DE), filed on Jul. 3, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0013079 A1, Jan. 9, 2025
Int. Cl. G02F 1/01 (2006.01); B60K 35/22 (2024.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC G02F 1/0105 (2013.01) [B60K 35/22 (2024.01); G02B 6/0031 (2013.01); G02B 6/0068 (2013.01); G02B 6/0073 (2013.01); B60K 2360/23 (2024.01); B60K 2360/332 (2024.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising a display panel and a backlight for the display panel, the backlight comprising:
a reflector having a multiplicity of reflectively configured cavities, with walls of the cavities being configured such that a grid structure of the reflector resulting from the arrangement of the cavities is broken up, wherein upper edges of the cavities as viewed by an observer form irregular pentagons, hexagons, or a curved profile; and
a multiplicity of light sources arranged in each case in the cavities.