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LCD BLU의 CCFL 전극에 사용되는 몰리브덴 전극의 주요소재인 몰리브덴 컵과 몰리브덴 핀은 국내 가공기술 이 개발되지 못하여 전량 일본에서 수입하여 사용되고 있어 CCFL 제조업체들의 납기 및 경쟁력에 부담을 주고 있다. 본 연구에서는 LCD BLU의 CCFL 전극에 사용되는 몰리브덴 핀의 제조 기술을 개발하는 연구로 직선처리 기술개발, 몰리브덴 와이어 표면처리 기술개발, 와이어 절단기술 개발, 몰리브덴 핀의 제작, 검사용 JIG와 Fixture 설계 및 제작, 몰리브덴 핀 시제작 및 해석, 몰리브덴 핀 전수검사 기술개발에 관한 연구를 수행하였으며 본 논문에서는 몰리브덴 핀 제작에 있어 전수검사기 융합설계에 대한 연구를 다루고자 한다.

The molybdenum cup and molybdenum pin, which are the main materials of the molybdenum electrode used for the LCD BLU CCFL electrode, have not been developed in Japan and all of them are imported and used from Japan, is giving a competitive burden. In this research, to develop the manufacturing technology of molybdenum pin used for CCFL electrode of LCD BLU, development of linear processing technology, development of molybdenum wire surface treatment technology, development of wire cutting technology, production of molybdenum pin, design and fabrication of JIG and Fixture for inspection, molybdenum pin prototyping and analysis, and development of 100% molybdenum pin inspection technology. In this paper, especially, In this paper, especially, research on the convergency design for total inspection machine is treated. is treated.

LED TV 통합검사유닛은 LED BLU의 구동과 동시에 이상 유무 체크, AGING 작업 등 LED BLU를 테스트하기 위한 검사 장비이다. 기존 검사 유닛은 LCD의 종류와 크기에 따라 생산라인에서 검사 유닛을 교체해야 하는 불편한 점이 있어 본 연구에서는 한 가지 LED TV BLU 모델이 아닌 32 ~ 52인치의 다양한 LED TV BLU 모델을 수용할 수 있는 멀티형(통합형) 검사유닛으로 개발한다. 멀티형으로 개발하기 위해서 멀티 LED TV 통합검사유닛의 출력 전류를 80mA ~ 215mA의 범위로 다양한 출력이 되도록 만들고, LED BLU의 상태를 확인 하는 기능, 디밍(밝기 조절)기능 및 장시간 사용 시 열 발생 완화 기능 등을 구현한다. 또한 펌웨어 프로그램을 개발하고 업그레이드 할 수 있도록 하여 새로운 패널에 대해서도 지원할 수 있도록 개발한다.

LED TV integration test unit are the equipment for testing LED BLU as LED BLU's operation, error check, AGING work. The previous test unit were inconvenient because it must change test unit in production line according to LCD's kind and size. This paper develops by integration style test unit that can accommodate various LED TV BLU model of 32 ~ 52 inch that is not one LED TV BLU model. We make that output current is various to dimension of 80 ~ 215 mA. We make functions that are LED BLU state check, Diming and heat occurrence mitigation. Also we develop firmware program and that the program can be upgraded and that can support new panel.

디스플레이 기술의 발달로 모든 디스플레이 장치들이 대형화, 고화질, 고정밀도가 요구된다. 디스플레이 장치의 대형화에 따라 BLU가 대형화 되고 밝아져야 한다. 이 BLU 상판 Glass는 형상과 두께가 균일해야 균일한 휘도분포를 갖는다. 이런 요인들의 불량으로 인한 디스플레이 성능이 저하된다. 따라서 BLU의 형상 및 두께를 측정하는 고품질 측정 장치들의 요구가 필연적이다. 본 논문에서는 BLU의 형상의 높이 및 두께 측정을 위한 고속이며 고정밀 시스템 구현을 제안하고자 한다. 측정 오차를 최소화하기 위해서 측정 구간을 둘로 나누고 다른 이동 속도로 측정하여 원하는 결과를 도출할 수 있었다.

All display devices require more wider, higher resolution and precision owing to advanced display technology. As the display pannels become wider, BLU also become wider and brighter. The upper glass of the BLU must achieve the constant of its shape and thickness and have uniform brightness. These deformity cause the display quality to make less. Thus high performance of the BLU shape‘s height and thickness measurement is inevitable. The high speed and precision measurement system will be proposed. To minimize the measurement error we can achieve the desirous results by 2 dividing intervals with different moving velocity on measuring.

Back light unit(BLU) using a microlens fabricated by the modified LIGA process for the liquid crystal display(LCD) is proposed, and some experimental results are presented. To realize the back light unit using microlens pattern, LIGA and reflow process are used.

In comparison with CCFL, LED can have more various colours. The research into BLU to raise colour reproducibility is actively proceeding by using RGB LED. On this study, Direct BLU was designed by white LED and RGB LED. According to the result of the experiment, the colour uniformity degree of BLU model using white LED is better than RGB LED BLU. On the other hand, the colour reproducibility of RGB LED BLU is better than white LED. The research showed that the uniformity of white LED is 81.7%and RGB LED is 70.01%.

LCD BLU(Back-Light Unit)의 설계에는 광선추적 기법이 많이 사용되고 있으며, 이러한 기법을 통하여 도광판 전면으로 출사되는 빛의 휘도, 휘도의 균일도, 광효율 등을 수치적으로 예측할 수 있다. 휘도와 휘도의 균일도 등과 같은 항목은 BLU 설계에 있어서 매우 중요한 요소 중의 하나이며, 이러한 BLU의 광학적 특성은 도광판의 후면에 인쇄된 잉크패턴에 가장 많을 영향을 받고 있다 따라서 높은 휘도와 균일도를 발생시킬 수 있는 최적화된 잉크패턴을 설계하는 것은 BLU의 설계에 있어서 가장 중요한 부분 중의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 최적의 잉크패턴을 설계하기 위하여 직접탐색(Direct Search) 기법 중에서 Holder Mead의 심플렉스탐색(Simplex Search) 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 직접탐색 기법은 최적의 잉크패턴을 계산하는 것과 같은 비선형적이고, 비연속적이며, 미분불가능한 함수의 최적점을 계산하는 분야에 많이 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 여러 가지 실험을 통하여 심플렉스탐색 기법이 최적의 잉크패턴을 설계하는데 있어서 매우 효율적이며 안정적으로 사용될 수 있음을 보여주며, 이러한 최적화 기법으로 인하여 BLU 설계기능을 개선할 수 있음을 보여준다

Various types of ray-tracing methods are used to predict the quantity measures of radiation illumination, the uniformity of illumination, radiation performance of LCD BLU(Hack-Light Unit). The uniformity of radiation illumination is one of the most important design factor of BLU and is usually controlled by the diffusive-ink pattern printed on the bottom of light-guide panel of BLU. Therefore it is desirable to produce an improved (ideally, the optimal) ink pattern to achieve the best uniformity of radiation illumination. In this paper, we applied the Welder-Mead simplex-search method among various direct search method to compute the optimal ink pattern. Direct search methods are widely used to optimize the functions which are often highly nonlinear, unpredictably discontinuous, and nondifferentiable, The ink-pattern controlling the uniformity of radiation illumination is one type of these functions. In this paper, we found that simplex search methods are well suited to computing the optimal diffusive-ink pattern. In extensive numerical testing, we have found the simplex search method to be reasonably efficient and reliable at computing the optimal diffusive-ink pattern. The result also suggests that optimization can improve the functionality of simulation tools which are used to design LCD BLU.

As a batch Type device, this machine is contrive to seal glass plates for plasma BLU (Back Light Unit) by indirect heating from electric heaters. In order to maintain the heating / cooling Chambers clean, this machine uses a muffle formation. The components of the machine are listed bellow.

Difficulties in developing process of Liquid Crystal Display(LCD) products such as frequent design modifications, various design requirements, and short-term development period bring on the need of integrated design approach that is efficient and easy to handle. Back Light Unit(BLU) of the LCD, which drastically affects the optical performance of LCD products, is divided into in-coupling part and out-coupling part. Serration of the in-coupling part flattens the light received from point light sources and dot pattern of the out-coupling part regularizes the light sent to screen. Therefore, the optical performance of a LCD product is largely influenced by the shape of serration and the arrangement of dot pattern. In this research, a new design approach which enables to improve the optical performance of LCD products and overcome the prementioned difficulties in developing process of LCD products is proposed. The shape of serration is parameterized to 3 parameters and out-coupling part is partitioned into 10 partitions to apply the optimization technique to this problem. 3 parameters for the shape of serration and densities of 10 partitions are used as design variables in the design optimization. Optical simulation tool named SPEOS is used to evaluate the optical performance of the LCD product. Since the optical simulation uses the random ray tracing technique, numerical noise may possibly be included in the simulation process. To solve the problem caused by numerical noise, the PQRSM which can stably find the solution of the noise problem is used in this research.

본 논문에서는 에지 방식의 BLU(Backlight unit)에 사용되는 도광판의 구조를 최적화하여 광학시트를 줄이면서 휘도와 균일도 및 시야각을 유지하기 위한 이중구조의 도광판을 설계하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 휘도와 균일도를 알아보았다. 여기에 사용된 복합 도광판은 이중구조의 도광판으로 상부에는 곡률 R을 갖는 프리즘패턴을 형성하고 곡률 R에 따른 휘도와 균일도를 시뮬레이션하였다. 하부에는 V groove 패턴을 회전시켜 상부패턴과 $90^{\circ}$를 이루게 하여 균일도를 확보하였다. 특히, 하부 패턴에서는 외곽의 피치 간격과 중심의 피치간격의 비(최대:최소), 패턴의 개수와 패턴의 분산을 정의할 수 있는 프로그램을 설계하여 V groove 사이의 간격을 결정하였다. 복합 도광판(dual-layer light guide plate, DLGP)의 최적화를 위해 다시 하부 패턴의 개수를 변화시켜 균일도를 알아보았다. 시뮬레이션 결과 복합 도광판을 이용한 BLU는 균일도 90.6%, 시야각 $145^{\circ}$인 특성을 갖는 것을 확인하였다.

A dual-layer light guide plate (DLGP) was designed and a simulation was done to optimize the structure of the light guide plates used at backlight units while maintaining the luminance, uniformity and viewing angle by reducing the optical sheet. The characteristic of DLGP with prism pattern with curvature on the top surface is simulated and the luminance and uniformity are obtained. In order to improve the uniformity, the V groove prism pattern on the bottom surface was turned by an angle of $90^{\circ}$. In particular, we used the pitch calculation program to select the value of the ratio (Max : Min) between the pitch at the extreme outside and the pitch at the middle, the number of V groove lines and the variance at the bottom pattern of DLGP. After that, the optimum distance between V grooves was determined. For optimizing the DLGP, we examined the uniformity again by changing the number of pattern grooves on the bottom surface of DLGP. As a result of the simulation, we find that the BLU with DLGP has a uniformity of 90.6% and viewing angle $145^{\circ}$.

In order to achieve low power consumption and the uniform power spectrum of LED BLU (Back Light Unit) system, new circuits with a 2 stage L-C (Inductor-Capacitor) coupler have been proposed. From the simulation results based on our proposed model, the ripple power of the L-C regulation-embedded BLU circuit shows a dramatic reduction by more than 89.3% as compared to the normal BLU (without L-C circuits). This indicates that the proposed circuit is very promising for the realization of high-efficiency BLU circuits.

언급한 바와 같이 사이즈별로 시장의 규모, 특징, 개발의 방향이 약간씩 달리하고 있으나 분명한 것은 공정단순화 및 광효율향상 포함한 원가절감을 위하여 기능성 시트들을 개발을 위한 활동이 활발하게 진행하고 있다. 광원은 중형이상의 경우 CCFL, EEFL이 주류를 이루고 있으나 초대형화, 고색재현, Local Dimming을 위한 LED 광원을 채택한 LED-BLU 개발을 활발히 진행 중이다.

This study has explained about LED for BLU which is widely used in the kinds of display devices or lighting. It was shown that the open due to delamination were the dominant LED for BLU failure mode and mechanisms from failure analysis of LED samples. Then, we have defined failure as yellowing and 100% reduction of light output intensity of LED for BLU and acceleration factors as temperature and current in Accelerated Life Test(ALT). Finally, we have estimated the Weibull distribution, life-stress relationship, and accelerating factor is used by ALTA Software.

액정 디스플레이에 사용하는 직하형 Back Light Unit(BLU)의 확산판과 프리즘판의 개수를 줄이면서도 성능을 개선한 새로운 일체형 복합필름을 제안하고 이들의 광학적 성능을 시뮬레이션으로 분석하였다. 막대 프리즘의 형태와 원통 렌즈 형태를 하나로 합친 복잡한 일차원 형태의 광학프리즘을 만든 후, 이를 연속적으로 배열하여 일체형 복합필름을 구성하였다. 일체형 복합필름의 성능은 조명계 프로그램으로 확인하여 최적의 구조를 정하였다. 이러한 최적 조건하에서 한 장의 일체형 복합필름을 사용하는 10인치 크기의 BLU에서 계산한 광효율은 53.5%이고, 광휘도 균일도는 83.5%였으며, 각도별 광휘도 분포인 배광곡선은 수직으로 $90^{\circ}$이고 수평방향으로 $112.5^{\circ}$이다. 그리고 이러한 설계로 새로운 일체형 복합필름을 제작하였다.

A new sheet of back light unit(BLU) to reduce the number of sheets and enhance the optical performances of direct back light unit(BLU) in a liquid crystal display is proposed and designed. In order to improve the straightness and spatial uniformity of brightness of the BLU, we design the new sheet with linear arrays of complicated bar prism by using the fusion of cylindrical lens and bar prism. Then, we investigate and analyze various optical performances of a BLU including the new sheet through an illumination optical system design program. From these results, we determine the optimum geometrical structure of the sheet. Under the optimum condition, the luminance efficiency and spatial uniformity of luminance of the BLU are 53.5% and 83.5% respectively. And the vertical and horizontal widths of the angular luminance distribution are $90^{\circ}$ and $112.5^{\circ}$ respectively. Finally we have fabricated a new BLU sheet according to this design shape by using an ordinary resins.

Field emission-back light unit (FE-BLU) was fabricated using carbon nanotube (CNT) emitter. Local dimming and local brightening techniques were achieved, which results in very high contrast ratio. In addition, the motion blur phenomenon, one of the serious problems of liquid crystal display (LCD) with cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL)-BLU, was removed from LCD-TV by using FE-BLU.

A flexible back-light unit (FBLU) is fabricated by embedding plasma discharge clusters in a flexible polymer matrix. The brightness uniformity of an FBLU was measured for various combinations of optical sheets and compared with the simulated results for various bending angles. A gap between light sources causes distinctive integrated brightness curves which have two inflection points depending on bending angle. The brightness distribution of a simulated BLU was in good agreement with that of an actual plasma BLU except for a dark area that appeared at the center of the simulated BLU. The real and simulated BLUs both clearly showed an angle dependency caused by mirror images located between point light sources. On the basis of these results, it is suggested that these mirror-like images could be a major factor in determining the characteristics of FBLUs.

In applying LCD to TV application, one of the most significant factors to be improved is image sticking on the moving picture. LCD is different from CRT in the sense that it's continuous passive device, which holds images in entire frame period, while impulse type device generate image in very short time. To reduce image sticking problem related to hold type display mode, we made an experiment to drive LCD like CRT. We made articulate images by turn on-off backlight, and we realized the ratio of Back Light on-off time by adjusting between on time and off time for video signal input during 1 frame (16.7ms). Conventional CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) cannot follow fast on-off speed, so we evaluated new fluorescent substances of light source to improve residual light characteristic of CCFL. We realized articulate image generation similar to CRT by blinking drive. As a result, reduced image sticking phenomenon was validated by naked eye and response time measurement.

We investigated under-gate type carbon nanotube field emitter arrays (FEAs) for back light unit (BLU) in liquid crystal display (LCD). Gate oxide was formed by wet etching of ITO coated glass substrate instead of depositing $SiO_2$ on the glass substrate. Wet etching is easer and simpler than depositing and etching of thick gate oxide to isolate the gate metal from cathode electrode in triode. Field emission characteristic s of triode structure were measured. The maximum current density of 92.5 ${\mu}A/cm^2$ was when the gate and anode voltage was 95 and 2500 V, respectively at the anode-cathode spacing of 1500 ${\mu}m$.

We have designed High Performance Prism LGP in 17 inch TFT-LCD. In test result to embody high brightness BLU in case of LGP of base and upper surface with 17 inch, thickness 8mm adding prism construct, it is superior brightness improvement than previous that of printing form about some 20% and in this course to embody actual material it succeeded prism LGP production by 17 inch injection form process.