Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Impact resistant light guide structure
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Application No.: US16647519Application Date: 2017-09-15
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Publication No.: US11267211B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Ville Kontturi
- Applicant: NANOCOMP OY LTD
- Applicant Address: FI Finland
- Assignee: NANOCOMP OY LTD
- Current Assignee: NANOCOMP OY LTD
- Current Assignee Address: FI Finland
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- International Application: PCT/FI2017/050657 WO 20170915
- International Announcement: WO2019/053317 WO 20190321
- Main IPC: G02B6/02
- IPC: G02B6/02 ; B29D11/00 ; F21V8/00

Abstract:
A light guide structure (100) has a first main surface (101) and an opposite second main surface (102) and is configured to guide light in the light guide structure via total internal reflections at the first and the second main surfaces. The light guide structure comprises an out-coupling arrangement (120) configured to couple light propagating in the light guide structure out of it through the first and/or the second main surface. The light guide structure comprises two cladding layers (1111, 1112) and a core layer (110) sandwiched between the cladding layers, the core layer comprising a core material and the cladding layers comprising cladding materials, respectively. The core material has its elasticity higher than the elasticities of the cladding materials, and its refractive index for a design wavelength substantially the same as the refractive indices of the cladding materials.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200269531A1 IMPACT RESISTANT LIGHT GUIDE STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2020-08-27
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