Patent ID: 7030944
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel having an electrode substrate unit and upper and lower polarizing plates, said electrode substrate unit being comprised of upper and lower electrode substrates arranged adjacent to each other, and said upper and lower polarizing plates being adhered to two outer surfaces, respectively, of said electrode substrate unit so as to transmit only light having a polarization plane in a constant direction; a backlight unit having a fluorescent tube serving as a light source, a reflector, a light guide plate, a reflecting sheet and a diffusing sheet sequentially arranged above said light guide plate to be substantially parallel to said light guide plate, and a plurality of lens sheets inserted between said diffusing sheet and said electrode substrate unit to be substantially parallel to each other; and a driver IC for driving said liquid crystal display panel and a signal control circuit for said driver IC, said upper polarizing plate having a first roughened surface on an outer surface thereof, which is formed for antiglare, and said lower polarizing plate having a second roughened surface on an outer surface thereof, which is formed so as to have a surface roughness not more than that of said first roughened surface, so that a moiré fringe generated by a presence of said plurality of lens sheets is decreased, said plurality of lens sheets being two sheets consisting of an upper lens sheet arranged near said liquid crystal display panel and a lower lens sheet arranged to be separate from said liquid crystal display panel, each of said upper and lower lens sheets being formed with a group of small prisms on one surface thereof, said group of small prisms of said upper lens sheet being formed of at least one of rounded vertices and vertices of random pitch, said upper lens sheet having a third roughened surface which is formed on the other surface thereof, and said lower lens sheet having a fourth roughened surface which is formed on the other surface thereof, said third and fourth roughened surfaces excluding a group of small prisms, said upper and lower lens sheets being arranged such that the major axes of said small prisms of the upper lens sheet are perpendicular to those of the lower lens sheet.