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Diffuser plate, display device, projection device, and lighting device

US10859735B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 30, 2016
Grant dateDec 8, 2020
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Expiry dateMar 16, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B21/14
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

There is provided a diffuser plate, a display device, a projection device, and a lighting device that can achieve more even diffusion angle distribution properties, the diffuser plate being of a microlens array type, and including: a single lens group located on a surface of a transparent base material, in which aperture sizes and radii of curvatures of respective single lenses constituting the single lens group vary in the single lens group as a whole, and vertex positions of the respective single lenses are located irregularly, and energy distribution of light that transmits through the single lens group is substantially even in a predetermined diffusion angle range.

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