1. A light-emitting diode device having a lens provided around a light-emitting diode chip, comprising:
a processed portion for adjusting light emitting from said light-emitting diode chip along a central axis of said lens provided directly on said light-emitting diode chip.
2. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode chip has a dim structure or a non-light-emitting structure formed as said processed portion opposed to a central axis of said lens of a light-emitting structure portion.
3. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode chip has a structure disposed on a side of said lens, a curved surface or an inclined surface having a tangential line which does not cross said central axis at right angles being provided on said substrate of said light-emitting diode chip at its position opposing said central axis of said lens to thereby form said processed portion.
4. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode chip has a substrate being disposed on a side of said lens, said substrate of said light-emitting diode chip being formed as a rough surface at a position opposing to the central axis of said lens to thereby form said processed portion.
5. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode chip has a structure being disposed on a side of said lens, said substrate of said light-emitting diode chip having a diffraction grating being provided at a position opposing to the central axis of said lens to thereby form said processed portion.
6. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode device has a diffusion material containing low refractive index material portion in which a diffusion material for diffusing light is dispersed into a low refractive index material with refractive index lower than that of said lens deposited on an area surrounding at least a central axis of the upper surface of said lens as said processed portion.
7. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode device has an angle selective filter having transmittance corresponding to an angle of incidence relative to incident light of color having a predetermined wavelength band deposited on an area surrounding at least a central axis of the upper surface of said lens as said processed portion.
8. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein said light-emitting diode device has a photo-electric conversion portion provided on an area surrounding at least a central axis of the upper surface of said lens as said processed portion.
9. A light-emitting diode device according to claim 1, wherein the processed portion is formed as a pattern which does not emit light or which reduces the amount of emitted light.
10. A backlight apparatus for illuminating a transmissive type liquid-crystal display panel from a back side, comprising:
a light source being composed of a plurality of light-emitting diode devices of which lens is covered around a light-emitting diode chip; and
a processed portion for adjusting light emitting from said light-emitting diode chip along the central axis of said lens being provided directly on said light-emitting diode chip.
11. A backlight apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said backlight apparatus has a transparent supporting substrate disposed right above said lens as said processed portion, a diffusion material containing low refractive index material portion in which a diffusion material for diffusing light is diffused into a low refractive index material with a refractive index lower than that of said lens being deposited on a position opposing the area surrounding at least the central axis of said lens.
12. A backlight apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a transparent supporting substrate is disposed right above said lens as said processed portion, an angle selective filter having transmittance corresponding to an angle of incidence relative to incident light of color with a predetermined wavelength band being deposited at the position opposing the area surrounding at least the central axis of the upper surface of said lens.
13. A liquid-crystal display apparatus comprising:
a transmissive type liquid-crystal display panel; and
a backlight apparatus for illuminating said liquid-crystal display panel from a back side, wherein a light source of said backlight apparatus is composed of a plurality of light-emitting diode devices of which lens is covered around a light-emitting diode chip, a processed portion for adjusting light going from said light-emitting diode chip along the central axis of said lens being provided directly on said light-emitting diode chip.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1-18. (canceled)
19. A disposable tip assembly for a laser surgical device, the tip assembly comprising:
a hollow sleeve having a first opening for removably receiving a portion of the laser surgical device and a second opening defined in a distal end thereof,
a tip member having a hollow interior and that is partially received in the second opening in the sleeve,
a connector having an orifice extending axially therethrough, wherein at least a portion of the connector is received in the interior of the tip member, and
an optical fiber that extends through the axial orifice of the connector and the interior of the disposable tip member.
20. The disposable tip assembly of claim 19 wherein the connector includes a housing and a probe, wherein the housing is received in the disposable tip member and the probe extends into the hollow sleeve.
21. The disposable tip assembly of claim 19 wherein the tip member tapers to a discharge tip end.
22. The disposable tip assembly of claim 21 wherein the sleeve defines a longitudinal axis, and wherein the discharge tip end is at a right angle to the sleeve longitudinal axis.
23. The disposable tip assembly of claim 19 wherein the connector comprises a magnetic material.
24. The disposable tip assembly of claim 10 wherein the housing comprises a magnetic material.
25. The disposable tip assembly of claim 24 wherein the housing has a larger diameter than the probe.
26. The disposable tip assembly of claim 19 wherein the sleeve includes at least one longitudinally extending internal rib adapted to be received in at least one corresponding slit on the laser surgical device.
27. The disposable tip assembly of claim 26 wherein the sleeve includes a plurality of spaced apart longitudinally extending internal ribs adapted to be received in corresponding slits on the laser surgical device.
28. A disposable tip assembly for a reusable surgical laser treatment device, the tip assembly comprising:
a) a hollow sleeve that defines a longitudinal axis and is adapted to releasably fit on the surgical laser treatment device,
b) a cannula member that includes a first end having a diameter and a second end that tapers to a discharge tip end,
c) an optical fiber axially positioned within the tip assembly and extending beyond the discharge tip end, and
d) a connector for releasably connecting the sleeve to the device, wherein the connector includes a housing having a diameter that is smaller than the first end of the cannula, such that the housing is received in the cannula, and a probe that is adapted to extend into the surgical laser treatment device, and wherein the housing and the probe cooperate to define a longitudinal opening through which the optical fiber extends.
29. The disposable tip assembly of claim 28 wherein the discharge tip end is at a right angle to the sleeve longitudinal axis.
30. The disposable tip assembly of claim 28 wherein the connector comprises a magnetic material.
31. The disposable tip assembly of claim 28 wherein the housing comprises a magnetic material.
32. The disposable tip assembly of claim 28 wherein the housing has a larger diameter than the probe.
33. The disposable tip assembly of claim 28 wherein the sleeve includes at least one longitudinally extending internal rib adapted to be received in at least one corresponding slit on the surgical laser treatment device.
34. The disposable tip assembly of claim 33 wherein the sleeve includes a plurality of spaced apart longitudinally extending internal ribs adapted to be received in corresponding slits on the surgical laser treatment device.