Summary of the invention
Therefore, the backlight module that a kind of thinner thickness is provided is necessary.
A kind of backlight module, comprise metal substrate, be attached at glass substrate on metal substrate and light source, glass substrate comprises incidence surface, composition surface and exiting surface, glass substrate is fitted by composition surface and metal substrate, the light that light source sends enters in glass substrate from incidence surface, and from exiting surface injection glass substrate.
Due under existing process conditions, glass substrate can manufactured place very frivolous (thickness can be less than 0.2mm), therefore adopts glass substrate effectively can reduce the integral thickness of backlight module as light guide plate.On the other hand, the metal substrate be attached on glass substrate can play good supporting role to glass substrate, prevents from crossing thin due to glass substrate and causing the problem of intensity deficiency.Further, metal substrate can obtain less thickness (being less than or equal to 0.2mm) equally under existing process conditions.That is to say, even if add the thickness of metal substrate, the integral thickness of backlight module still can control within 0.4mm, compared to the backlight module adopting plastic cement light guide plate, possesses larger lightening advantage.
With reference to the accompanying drawings, the invention will be further described in conjunction with specific embodiments.
Detailed description of the invention
Refer to Fig. 1, show the backlight module 10 of one embodiment of the invention, it comprises a metal substrate 20, and is attached at the optical coupling element 50 that glass substrate 30, light source on metal substrate 20 40 and connects light source 40 and glass substrate 30.
Metal substrate 20 can adopt the manufacture of the material such as copper, aluminium.In the present embodiment, the thickness of metal substrate 20 is 0.2mm.Metal substrate 20 comprises the end face 24 and multiple side 26 being connected bottom surface 22 and end face 24 that a bottom surface 22, one and bottom surface 22 be oppositely arranged.The bottom surface 22 of metal substrate 20 for being attached at carrier, with support glass substrate 30.The end face 24 of metal substrate 20 forms a smooth surface by polishing, to play good reflex.The end face 24 of metal substrate 20 is formed with an optical scattering structure 60 further by the integral manner of machining or etching.In the present embodiment, optical scattering structure 60 comprises the site of a large amount of circles, and it is clouded on the whole end face 24 of metal substrate 20.Diffuse effect can be played to light in site, and light is spread by surrounding.Certainly, optical scattering structure 60 is also not limited to site, and other pattern or lines also can be adopted to realize required light diffusion effect.Under existing process conditions, the thickness of optical scattering structure 60 can be controlled in less than 20 μm.
Glass substrate 30 is attached on the site of metal substrate 20.In the present embodiment, the thickness of glass substrate 30 is less than 0.2mm.Glass substrate 30 comprises the bottom surface 34 that an end face 32, one and end face 32 are oppositely arranged and the multiple sides 36 being connected end face 32 and bottom surface 34.The bottom surface 34 of glass substrate 30 is provided with layer of transparent optical cement (optically clear adhesive) 70, for bonding with the end face 24 of metal substrate 20.In gap between the site that transparent optical cement 70 is filled in metal substrate 20, the thickness of its thickness and site is consistent.In other words, the end face of transparent optical cement 70 flushes with the end face of optical scattering structure 60, and therefore the bottom surface of glass substrate 30 can be supported well, thus prevents the situation of unbalance stress.Transparent optical cement 70 except jointing metal substrate 20 and glass substrate 30, can also for light through and make light reflect by the end face 24 of metal substrate 20, thus improving extraction efficiency.A part for the bottom surface 34 of glass substrate 30 is positioned at directly over metal substrate 20, and another part extends beyond metal substrate 20 and is located on optical coupling element 50.Between the part that the bottom surface 34 that transparent optical cement 70 is also located in glass substrate 30 extends beyond metal substrate 20 and optical coupling element 50.Further, transparent optical cement 70 also extends to bonding with optical coupling element 50 for the side 36 of glass substrate 30 towards a side 36 of optical coupling element 50 from the bottom surface 34 of glass substrate 30.Thus, glass substrate 30 is fixed on metal substrate 20 and optical coupling element 50 by transparent optical cement 70 simultaneously.The area that glass substrate 30 bottom surface 34 extends beyond the part of metal substrate 20 is greater than the area of glass substrate 30 towards the side 36 of optical coupling element 50.The part that glass substrate 30 bottom surface 34 engages with metal substrate 20 is as the composition surface of glass substrate 30, glass substrate 30 bottom surface 34 extend beyond metal substrate 20 part and towards the side of optical coupling element 50 as the incidence surface of glass substrate 30, the end face of glass substrate 30 is as the exiting surface of glass substrate 30.
Optical coupling element 50 is by transparent material manufacture, and it comprises end face 54 and multiple side 56 being connected bottom surface 52 and end face 54 that a bottom surface 52, one and bottom surface 52 be oppositely arranged.The thickness of optical coupling element 50 and the gross thickness of glass substrate 30 and metal substrate 20 basically identical.The bottom surface 52 of optical coupling element 50 for being placed in carrier, with metal substrate 20 common support glass substrate 30.Optical coupling element 50 is made up of the exiting surface 562 of inclined-plane 560, level and a vertical exiting surface 564 near a side of metal substrate 20.In the present embodiment, bottom surface 52 and the inclined-plane 560 of optical coupling element 50 are reflecting surface, and the two is all coated with one deck reflectance coating 80.Reflectance coating 80 can adopt silver foil or aluminium foil manufacture, to possess higher reflector efficiency.Horizontal exiting surface 562 and the vertical exiting surface 564 of optical coupling element 50 are all bonding with the incidence surface of glass substrate 30 by transparent optical cement 70, can enter in glass substrate 30 to make light from optical coupling element 50.Optical coupling element 50 offers a cavity 566 in one side 56, for accommodating light source 40.In the present embodiment, light source is a light emitting diode, and it is installed on a circuit board 42.Circuit board 42 is attached at the side 56 of optical coupling element 50, to be supported in cavity 566 by light source 40.The height of circuit board 42 is identical with the thickness of optical coupling element 50.Optical coupling element 50 forms lens 500 on the internal face of cavity 566.Lens 500 protrude towards the side 56 of optical coupling element 50 and form a convex globoidal.In the present embodiment, the optical axis of lens 500 and the optical axis of light source 40 stagger.Thus, the light that light source 40 sends can be entered in glass substrate 30 by lens 500 deviation, thus with wide-angle in glass substrate 30 inner total reflection, to promote coupling efficiency.The internal face of cavity 566 and the convex globoidal of lens 500 form the incidence surface of optical coupling element 50 jointly, the light that light source 40 sends enters in optical coupling element 50 from incidence surface, wherein a part of light is directly entered in glass substrate 30 from exiting surface 562,564 by lens 500 deviations, another part light reflect by reflectance coating 80 after enter again in glass substrate 30.The light entering glass substrate 30 is totally reflected in glass substrate 30, and then to reflect by the end face 24 of metal substrate 20 or by the scattering of the site of optical scattering structure 60 institute, and then to penetrate from the exiting surface of glass substrate 30.Due to the end face 24 of metal substrate 20 and the reflectivity of metal site higher, the light therefore penetrated from the exiting surface of glass substrate 30 there will not be the atomizating phenomenon as plastic cement light guide plate, thus the quality of lighting of backlight module 10 is got a promotion.And, leaded light is carried out owing to adopting glass substrate 30 and the superimposed mode of metal substrate 20, not only can reduce the integral thickness of backlight module 10, the problem of the intensity deficiency caused because glass substrate 30 is excessively thin can also be avoided, thus make backlight module 10 be suitable for the application of large-scale industry.
Fig. 2 shows the backlight module 10 of another kind of structure, and it also comprises metal substrate 20, glass substrate 30, optical coupling element 50 and a light source 40.
The thickness of metal substrate 20 is 0.2mm, and the thickness of glass substrate 30 is less than 0.2mm.With previous embodiment unlike, the bottom surface 34 of glass substrate 30 directly fits in the end face 24 of metal substrate 20, therebetween not optical scattering structure 60 and transparent optical cement 70.Optical scattering structure 60 then be located at the end face 32 of glass substrate 30.In the present embodiment, optical scattering structure 60 is nano-imprinted pattern, and it also comprises a large amount of sites.The thickness of these sites is less than 20 μm.A part for the bottom surface 34 of glass substrate 30 contacts with metal substrate 20 as composition surface, and another part extends beyond metal substrate 20 and is located on optical coupling element 50.Site is positioned at the top of metal substrate 20 and optical coupling element 50 simultaneously.Glass substrate 30 bottom surface 34 extends beyond the part of metal substrate 20 and forms the incidence surface of glass substrate 30 towards a side 36 of optical coupling element 50, and the end face of glass substrate 30 forms the exiting surface of glass substrate 30.Optical coupling element 50 and metal substrate 20 interval are arranged.Optical coupling element 50 forms a cavity 566 on the side 56 near metal substrate 20, and light source 40 is contained in cavity 566.The circuit board 42 of light source 40 to be located between the side 56 of optical coupling element 50 and the side 26 of metal substrate 20 and directly to abut with the two.Circuit board 42 also abuts the bottom surface 34 of glass substrate 30, its height and the consistency of thickness of metal substrate 20.Optical coupling element 50 also forms the lens 500 of an evagination on an internal face of cavity 560.The optical axis of light source 40 and the optical axis of lens 500 stagger.The convex globoidal of lens 500 and the internal face of cavity 566 form the incidence surface of optical coupling element 50 jointly.The reflecting surface of the bottom surface 52 of optical coupling element, end face 54 and the side 560 that tilts composition optical coupling element 50 jointly, it is coated with the reflectance coating 80 manufactured by silver foil or aluminium foil.The bottom of the reflectance coating 80 of the bottom surface 52 of optical coupling element 50 flushes with the bottom surface 22 of metal substrate 20 and circuit board 42, and the top of reflectance coating 80 of end face flushes with the top of site.Optical coupling element 50 also forms horizontal exiting surface 562 and a vertical exiting surface 564 near the side of metal substrate 20.The horizontal exiting surface 562 of optical coupling element 50 and vertical exiting surface 564 are all bonded to bottom surface 34 and the side 36 of glass substrate 30 by a transparent optical cement 70.In the present embodiment, transparent optical cement 70 is connected with reflectance coating 80.After the light that light source 40 sends enters optical coupling element 50 via incidence surface, reflect by reflecting surface and inject in glass substrate 30 from exiting surface 562,564.The light entered in glass substrate 30 is totally reflected, then penetrates from exiting surface via the diffusion of site.The thickness of the backlight module 10 of the present embodiment is substantially identical with the thickness of the backlight module 10 of previous embodiment, is applicable to the backlight demand of various lightening product.