FABRICATION METHOD OF DEFLECTING FILM
20190121200 ยท 2019-04-25
Inventors
Cpc classification
G02F1/295
PHYSICS
G02F1/1335
PHYSICS
B29D11/00326
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
G02F1/133606
PHYSICS
G02F1/133615
PHYSICS
International classification
G02F1/1335
PHYSICS
G02F1/295
PHYSICS
Abstract
The application relates to a fabrication method of a deflecting film capable of realizing a deflection of a viewing angle of the liquid crystal display device. According to viewing angle characteristics of a backlight unit of the liquid crystal display device and deflection angle requirement of maximum luminance, one or more layers of deflecting film is/are fabricated and used in the backlight unit of the liquid crystal display device. The deflecting film deflects a viewing angle of the maximum luminance of the liquid crystal display device to the direction of the viewer's sight, and a shape of the viewing angle curve does not change significantly, so that the light is utilized to the utmost extent, the energy consumption is reduced, and the light effect is improved.
Claims
1. A fabrication method of a deflecting film capable of realizing a deflection of a viewing angle of a liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal display device comprises a backlight unit and a liquid crystal panel, the backlight unit comprises a light source, a light guide plate, a reflective film, a lower diffusion film, an upper diffusion film and the deflecting film; wherein the light guide plate comprises a light incident surface, a light emitting surface adjacent to the light incident surface and four light leakage surfaces, the light source is disposed corresponding to the light incident surface of the light guide plate, and the reflective film is disposed below the light leakage surfaces; wherein the lower diffusion film, the upper diffusion film and the deflecting film are sequentially disposed above the light emitting surface in that order; wherein the liquid crystal panel is disposed above the deflecting film, and a surface of the deflecting film is provided with optical curved surface structures; wherein the fabrication method of the deflecting film comprises preparing the optical curved surface structures of the deflecting film comprising: step S01, determining .sub.2 according to a required deflection angle of the liquid crystal display device; step S02, defining a distance x.sub.10 between the deflecting film and the upper diffusion film; step S03, determining x.sub.20 according to a reserved thickness of optical adhesive and a height of surface microstructure on the surface of the deflecting film, wherein the x.sub.20 is a sum of the distance x.sub.10, the reserved thickness of optical adhesive and the height of surface microstructure; step S04, determining x.sub.30 according to a distance between the liquid crystal panel and the deflecting film, wherein the x.sub.30 is a sum of the x.sub.20 and the distance between the liquid crystal panel and the deflecting film; step S05, determining a refractive index n.sub.1 according to a medium that a light enters before entering the deflecting film, and determining a refractive index n.sub.2 according to a medium that the light enters after entering the deflecting film; step S06, determining a range of an incident angle .sub.1 according to a viewing angle at a half-luminance of a viewing angle curve of an incident light before entering the deflecting film, wherein the incident angle .sub.1 is in the range of [.sub.1max, .sub.1max], and .sub.1max is smaller than 90; step S07, determining .sub.1 according to the following formulas when .sub.1=0:
2. The fabrication method according to claim 1, before preparing the optical curved surface structures of the deflecting film, further comprising: determining an amount of layers of deflecting film according to a required deflection angle of the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display device; wherein when the deflection angle is greater than or equal to 20, N layers of deflecting film are needed to be prepared , where N=an integer part of (deflection angle/20) +1; and when the deflection angle is less than 20, one layer of deflecting film is needed to be prepared.
3. The fabrication method according to claim 2, wherein when N layers of deflecting film are needed to be prepared, the optical curved surface structures of the N layers of deflecting film are prepared by the following method comprising: preparing a first layer of deflecting film according to the above steps S01-S14, wherein a deflection angle of the first layer of deflecting film is determined as the required deflection angle .sub.2 divided by N; preparing an m-th layer of deflecting film comprises: based on an acute-angle curved surface structure, connecting the series of coordinate points (x.sub.m1, y.sub.m1), (x.sub.m2, y.sub.m2), . . . (x.sub.mmax, y.sub.mmax) obtained during preparing the first layer of the deflecting film and combining with the reserved thickness of optical adhesive through an acute-angle, to form a single acute-angle curved surface structure of the m-th layer, wherein the acute angle of the m-th layer of deflecting film is 90.sub.2*(m1)/N, m=2N; and repeating the single acute-angle curved surface structure to form a matrix of 100100 on a surface of the m-th layer of deflecting film, disposing the N layers of deflecting film above the upper diffusion film, and using the optical software for simulation to obtain a viewing angle curve and thereby a viewing angle with a maximum luminance is obtained.
4. The fabrication method according to claim 1, after the step S14, further comprising: step S15, determining whether a deflection of the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display device satisfies a viewing angle deflection requirement and a transmittance requirement, according to the viewing angle with a maximum luminance obtained in the step S14; if being satisfied, forming a plurality of optical curved surface structures according to an actual size of the deflecting film; and if not being satisfied, narrowing the range of the incident angle .sub.1, and repeating the steps S07 to S14 until meeting the requirements.
5. The fabrication method according to claim 1, wherein the optical curved surface structures on the surface of the deflecting film comprise a plurality of wavy microstructures, or a plurality of sawtooth microstructures, or a combination of a plurality of wavy microstructures and a plurality of sawtooth microstructures.
6. The fabrication method according to claim 4, after the step S15, further comprising: preparing a mold for the deflecting film with the optical curved surface structures; and using the mold to manufacture the deflecting film with the optical curved surface structures.
7. The fabrication method according to claim 6, wherein preparing a mold for the deflecting film with the optical curved surface structures comprises: providing a base and coating optical adhesive on the base, wherein a thickness of the optical adhesive is greater than 20 um; processing the optical adhesive by a photolithography process, thereby forming an optical adhesive layer with the optical curved surface structures thereon; curing the optical adhesive layer with the optical curved surface structures after baking; and electroplating the optical adhesive layer with the optical curved surface structures, thereby forming the mold.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0031] Accompanying drawings are for providing further understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. The drawings form a part of the disclosure and are for illustrating the principle of the embodiments of the disclosure along with the literal description. Apparently, the drawings in the description below are: merely some embodiments of the disclosure, a person skilled in the art can obtain other drawings according to these drawings without creative efforts. In the drawings:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0045] The specific structural and functional details disclosed herein are only representative and are intended for describing exemplary embodiments of the disclosure. However, the disclosure can be embodied in many forms of substitution, and should not be interpreted as merely limited to the embodiments described herein.
[0046] Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. The terminology used in the description of the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments and is not intended to limit the disclosure. The term and/or used herein includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
[0047] Referring to
[0048] The backlight unit 20 includes a light source 21, a light guide plate 22, a reflective film 23, a lower diffusion film 24, an upper diffusion film 25, and the deflecting film 26. The light guide plate 22 includes a light incident surface 221, a light emitting surface 222 adjacent to the light incident surface 221, and four light leakage surface 223. The light source 21 is disposed corresponding to the light incident surface 221 of the light guide plate 22. The reflective film 23 is disposed below the light leakage surfaces 223. The lower diffusion film 24, the upper diffusion film 25 and the deflecting film 26 are sequentially disposed above the light emitting surface 222 in that order. The liquid crystal panel 30 is disposed above the deflecting film 26. A surface of the deflecting film 26 is provided with optical curved surface structures 262.
[0049] It can be understood that the backlight unit 20 described above in the present application is a side-in type backlight unit, and in practice, a direct type backlight unit also is suitable. Specifically, the direct type backlight unit includes a light source, a reflective film, a lower diffusion film, an upper diffusion film, and the deflecting film. The reflective film is disposed below the light source, and the lower diffusion film, the upper diffusion film and the deflecting film are sequentially disposed along a light emitting direction of the light source. A surface of the deflecting film is provided with optical curved surface structures.
[0050] According to the above description, in the fabrication method of the deflecting film provided by the present application, whether the backlight unit involved is a direct type backlight unit or a side-in type backlight unit, the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display device can be deflected by the fabrication of the deflecting film.
[0051] The disclosure will be further clearly described in detail with reference to accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments as follows.
Embodiment 1
[0052] The first embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fabrication method of a deflecting film capable of deflecting a viewing angle of a liquid crystal display, please refer to
[0053] Step 1, according to design requirements, a deflection angle of the maximum luminance is 10, so .sub.2=10.
[0054] Step 2, the deflecting film is disposed directly above a top side of the backlight unit, so a distance between the deflecting film and the backlight unit is 5 um, that is x.sub.10=5.
[0055] Step 3, a reserved thickness of optical adhesive is 10 um, and a height of surface microstructures is 10 um, so x.sub.20=25.
[0056] Step 4, the liquid crystal panel is directly disposed above the deflecting film, a distance between the deflecting film and the liquid crystal panel is selected as 5 um, so x.sub.30=30.
[0057] Step 5, a light enters to the deflecting film from air, so n.sub.1 is the refractive index of air, n.sub.1=1, n.sub.2 is the refractive index of the optical adhesive, n.sub.2=1.57.
[0058] Step 6, the viewing angle curve of incident light is as shown in
[0059] Step 7, when .sub.1=0, .sub.1=17.2 is calculated according to the following formulas:
[0060] Step 8, assuming that x.sub.0=0, y.sub.0=0, y.sub.10=0, y.sub.20=0, y.sub.30=0.
[0061] Step 9, the set .sub.1 is performed a segmentation every 0.5 and 0.5 to obtain a series of .sub.1i and .sub.1i, where .sub.1i+1=.sub.1i+0.5, i={020}/0.5={040}, .sub.1i+1=.sub.1i0.5, i={20/0.50}={400}.
[0062] Step 10, substituting .sub.1i and .sub.1i corresponding to i={4040} into the following formulas, calculating 40 coordinate points of an upper half of a curved surface S1 and 40 coordinate points of a lower half of the curved surface S1. Wherein S1 refers to a curved top surface of the curved surface structure, 40 coordinate points of the upper half of the curved surface S1 correspond to i={040} and .sub.1i[0, 20], and 40 coordinate points of the lower half of the curved surface S1 correspond to i={400} and .sub.1i[20, 0]. Due to the limited space of the description, only values of the middle 21 coordinate points are given here, as illustrated in the following table.
TABLE-US-00001 x.sub.1i y.sub.1i i = 10 4.881 0.384 i = 9 4.894 0.342 i = 8 4.907 0.3 i = 7 4.92 0.258 i = 6 4.933 0.215 i = 5 4.946 0.173 i = 4 4.96 0.13 i = 3 4.973 0.087 i = 2 4.986 0.044 i = 1 5 0 i = 0 5 0 i = 1 5 0 i = 2 5.014 0.044 i = 3 5.027 0.088 i = 4 5.041 0.132 i = 5 5.055 0.177 i = 6 5.069 0.221 i = 7 5.083 0.266 i = 8 5.097 0.312 i = 9 5.111 0.357 i = 10 5.126 0.403
[0063] Step 11, connecting the 40 coordinate points of the upper half of the curved surface S1, at right angles combining a top surface S2 of the reserved thickness of the optical adhesive, and thereby forming an upper half of a single one of the optical curved surface structures based on a drawing software, as shown in
[0064] Step 12, connecting the 40 coordinate points of the lower half of the curved surface S1, at right angles combining the top surface S2 of the reserved thickness of the optical adhesive, and thereby forming a lower half of a single one of the optical curved surface structures based on the drawing software, as shown in
[0065] Step 13, combining the upper half and the lower half of the curved surface structure at the coordinate point of (x.sub.10, y.sub.10), thereby forming a complete single optical curved surface structure provided on the surface of the deflecting film.
[0066] Step 14, repeating the completed single curved surface structure to form a matrix of 100100 on the surface of the deflecting film, placing the matrix above the upper diffusion film, and using an optical software for simulation to obtain a viewing angle curve and thereby a viewing angle with a maximum luminance is obtained, as shown in
Embodiment 2
[0067] The second embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fabrication method of a deflecting film capable of deflecting a viewing angle of a liquid crystal display, please refer to
[0068] Step 1, according to design requirements, a deflection angle of the maximum luminance is 10, so .sub.2=10.
[0069] Step 2, the deflecting film is disposed directly above a top side of the backlight unit, so a distance between the deflecting film and the backlight unit is 5 um, that is x.sub.10=5.
[0070] Step 3, a reserved thickness of optical adhesive layer is 10 um, and a height of surface microstructures is 10 um, so x.sub.20=25.
[0071] Step 4, the liquid crystal panel is directly disposed above the deflecting film, a distance between the deflecting film and the liquid crystal panel is selected as 5 um, so x.sub.30=30.
[0072] Step 5, a light enters to the deflecting film from air, so n.sub.1 is the refractive index of air, n.sub.1=1, n.sub.2 is the refractive index of the optical adhesive, n.sub.2=1.57.
[0073] Step 6, the viewing angle curve of incident light is as shown in
[0074] Step 7, when .sub.1=0, .sub.1=17.2 is calculated according to the following formulas:
[0075] Step 8, assuming that x.sub.0=0, y.sub.0=0, y.sub.10=0, y.sub.20=0, y.sub.30=0.
[0076] Step 9, the set .sub.1 is performed segmentations every 0.5 and 0.5 to obtain a series of .sub.1i and .sub.1i, where .sub.1i+1=.sub.1i+0.5, i={030}/0.5={60}, .sub.1i+1=.sub.1i0.5, i={30/0.50}={600}.
[0077] Step 10, substituting .sub.1i and .sub.1i corresponding to i={6060} into the following formulas, calculating 60 coordinate points of an upper half of a curved surface S1 and 60 coordinate points of a lower half of the curved surface S1. Wherein S1 refers to a curved top surface of the optical curved surface structure, 60 coordinate points of the upper half of curved surface S1 correspond to i={060} and .sub.1i[0, 30], 60 coordinate points of the lower half of curved surface S1 correspond to i={600} and .sub.1i[30, 0]. Due to the limited space of the description, only values of the middle 21 coordinate points are given here, as illustrated in the following table.
TABLE-US-00002 x.sub.1i y.sub.1i i = 10 4.881 0.384 i = 9 4.894 0.342 i = 8 4.907 0.3 i = 7 4.92 0.258 i = 6 4.933 0.215 i = 5 4.946 0.173 i = 4 4.96 0.13 i = 3 4.973 0.087 i = 2 4.986 0.044 i = 1 5 0 i = 0 5 0 i = 1 5 0 i = 2 5.014 0.044 i = 3 5.027 0.088 i = 4 5.041 0.132 i = 5 5.055 0.177 i = 6 5.069 0.221 i = 7 5.083 0.266 i = 8 5.097 0.312 i = 9 5.111 0.357 i = 10 5.126 0.403
[0078] Step 11, connecting the 60 coordinate points of the upper half of the curved surface S1, at right angles combining with a surface S2 of the reserved thickness of optical adhesive, and thereby forming an upper half of a single one optical curved surface structure based on a drawing software.
[0079] Step 12, connecting the 60 coordinate points of the lower half of the curved surface S1, at right angles by combining with the surface S2 of the reserved thickness of optical adhesive and thereby forming a lower half of the single one optical curved surface structure based on the drawing software.
[0080] Step 13, combining the upper half and the lower half of the optical curved surface structure at the coordinate point of (x.sub.10, y.sub.10), thereby forming a complete curved surface structure provided on the surface of the deflecting film, as shown in
[0081] Step 14, repeating the completed single curved surface structure to form a matrix of 100100 on the surface of the deflecting film, placing the matrix above the upper diffusion film, and using an optical software for simulation to obtain a viewing angle curve, as shown in
Embodiment 3
[0082] A third embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fabrication method of a deflecting film capable of deflecting a viewing angle of a liquid crystal display, please refer to
[0083] Step 1, determining a deflection angle of a first layer of deflecting film is 20/2=10, a deflection angle of a second layer of deflecting film is 20-10=10.
[0084] Step 2, according to the first embodiment, the curved surface structure of the first layer of deflecting film is determined, with fabrication steps and deflecting film structures the same as those of the first embodiment.
[0085] Step 3, determining a curved surface structure of the second layer of deflecting film according to the curved surface structure of the first layer of deflecting film, a curved surface portion of the second layer of deflecting film is the same as that of the first layer of deflecting film, the right angles in curved surface structure of the first layer of deflecting film are changed to be acute angles of the curved surface structure of the second layer of deflecting film, and the acute angle is 9020*(21)/2=80, thereby obtaining a single curved surface structure of the second layer of deflecting film.
[0086] Step 4, duplicating the two kinds of curved surface structures of
Embodiment 4
[0087] A fourth embodiment of the present disclosure provides a fabrication method of a deflecting film capable of deflecting a viewing angle of a liquid crystal display, please refer to
[0088] Step 1, determining a deflection angle of a first deflecting film is 40/3=13.3, deflection angles of a second deflecting film and a third deflecting film are both 40/3=13.3.
[0089] Step 2, according to steps 1-14 of the first embodiment, determining a curved surface structure on a surface of the first deflecting film.
[0090] Step 3, determining a curved surface structure of the second deflecting film according to the curved surface structure of the first deflecting film, a curved surface portion of the second deflecting film is the same as that of the first deflecting film, right angles in curved surface structure of the first deflecting film are changed to be acute angles in curved surface structure of the second deflecting film, and the acute angle is 9040*(21)/3=76.7, thereby obtaining a single one curved surface microstructure of the second deflecting film.
[0091] Step 4, determining a curved surface structure of the third deflecting film according to the curved surface structure of the first deflecting film, a curved surface portion of the third deflecting film is the same as that of the first deflecting film, right angles in the curved surface structure of the first deflecting film is changed to be acute angles in the curved surface structure of the third deflecting film, and the acute angle is 9040*(31)/3=63.3, thereby obtaining a single one curved surface structure of the third deflecting film, as shown in
[0092] Step 5, duplicating the three kinds of the curved surface structures respectively, thereby forming a 100100 matrix of the three kinds of curved surface structures respectively. Using an optical software for simulation, a viewing angle curve is obtained as shown in
[0093] The fabrication method of the present disclosure fabricates single-layer or matched multi-layer of deflecting film provided with curved surface structures, according to the existing viewing angle characteristics of the backlight unit of the liquid crystal display device and the maximum luminance deflection angle requirement. One or more matched deflecting films are used in the backlight unit of the liquid crystal display device, the curved surface structures of the deflecting film can be fabricated according to the deflection angle of maximum luminance of the liquid crystal display device, and the maximum luminance of the liquid crystal display device can be deflected to sight direction of viewers, meanwhile the viewing angle curve will not change significantly. So the light is mostly used, energy consumption is reduced and light efficiency is improved. At the same time, when the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display device is large, multi-layers of deflecting film is used to solve the problem that the existing single-layer of deflecting film has a gain and a cut-off angle when the deflection angle is large, and the light efficiency is further improved.
[0094] In addition, the present application further provides a liquid crystal display device 10 as shown in
[0095] The liquid crystal display device provided by the present invention is widely applicable to displays in trains, automobiles, and aircraft cockpits. The display has excellent large viewing angle deflection function, which can efficiently deflect light at a specific angle, especially suitable for the engine room where the display position is fixed, the car dashboard and the like.
[0096] The foregoing contents are detailed description of the disclosure in conjunction with specific preferred embodiments and concrete embodiments of the disclosure are not limited to these description. For the person skilled in the art of the disclosure, without departing from the concept of the disclosure, simple deductions or substitutions can be made and should be included in the protection scope of the application.