US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Jan. 20 for "Planar light source and the method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,455, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Planar light source and the method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Gensui Tamura (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar light source includes a light source, a light guide member, a wiring substrate, a light reflecting sheet and a pair of conducting members. The light source has a pair of electrodes on one face. The light guide member covers the light source while the electrodes are exposed from the light guide member. The wiring substrate has a wiring layer. The light reflecting sheet is interposed between the light guide member and the wir...