METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A LIGHT GUIDING PANEL AND AN APPARATUS FOR THE SAME, AND A PARTICLE BLASTING APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE LIGHT GUIDING PANEL

摘要

Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a light guiding panel by means of carving fine engravings on a surface of a transparent substrate by plasting fine particles and an apparatus for the same. A distributed degree of the engravings gradually increases as they become far away from a light source position. In a first method, fine particles are mixed with a high-speed air and then the air-mixed fine particles are diffusively blasted through one or more blasting nozzles so that the fine particles can collide with a surface of a transparent substrate slantly. In a second method, the air-mixed fine particles are diffusively blasted through a plurality of aligned blasting nozzles so that the fine particles can perpendicularly collide with the entire width of a transparent substrate, while appropriately adjusting intervals of the blasting nozzles and/or the amount of blasting as well as swing the blasting nozzles. In a third method, fine particles are mixed with an air generated by a high-speed rotating blower and then the air-mixed fine particles are blasted through a flat funnel-shaped blasting pipe having an outlet of which the width is not narrower than that of the transparent substrate to perpendicularly collide with a transparent substrate. The cross-sectional shape of the outlet of the blasting pipe can be varied by a user's control. The blasting amount of the fine particles is constantly maintained with respect to time by means of a free fall feeding manner of the fine particles. The light guiding panel which has been so manufactured does not need a diffusion sheet and has a good brightness uniformity and a good light effectiveness.