Patent ID: 8534895
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A light emitting device comprising: a light guiding plate that includes two facing principal surfaces and circumferential end surfaces connecting the principal surfaces; and a point-like light source that is arranged to face at least one surface of the circumferential end surfaces of the light guiding plate, wherein one surface of the circumferential end surfaces other than the surface where the point-like light source is arranged is a light emitting surface; the thickness of a portion of the light guiding plate which the point-like light source faces is smaller than the thickness of a portion constituting the light emitting surface and is smaller than the thickness of a light emitting surface of the point-like light source; a diffusing unit is formed on at least one of the principal surfaces; and a reflection member that covers peripheries of the point-like light source and the light guiding plate other than portions constituting the light emitting surfaces of the point-like light source and the light guiding plate is provided.