MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR LIGHT-GUIDING PLATE, LIGHT-GUIDING PLATE, BACKLIGHT DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR LIGHT-GUIDING PLATE

摘要

This invention has an object to provide a manufacturing method for light guide plate, from small to relatively large sizes, capable of corresponding to an arbitrary shape and the optical characteristics suitable for the shape and reducing the takt time. The invented manufacturing method is characterized in having, as the manufacturing method for light guide plate rendering light enter from a side surface of a light guide plate substrate and output from a major surface, the steps of arranging fabrication dots in a matrix shape on a tip surface in a rectangular shape of an ultrasound processing horn; forming, on one major surface of the light guide plate substrate, reflection dots reflecting the fabrication dots on the tip surface by pressing the tip surface of the ultrasound processing horn to the one major surface of the light guide plate substrate; forming the reflection dots in a prescribed range on the one major surface of the light guide plate substrate by correlatively transferring the ultrasound processing horn within the major surface with respect to the light guide plate substrate to repeat formation of the reflection dots; and forming the reflection dots on each major surface of the light guide plate substrate so that the reflection dots are not located at the same position between the opposite major surfaces.