A guide plate has a major face on which projections are arranged, wherein the projections have an arch-like profile within the vicinity of an incidence end face, or, in addition to this, within regions along both side end faces, thereby preventing the guide plate from producing abnormal brightness which could be caused by reflective appearance of edges. A primary light source is disposed beside the guide plate. Major faces of the guide plate provide an emission face and a back face. A prism sheet and a protection sheet are disposed along the emission face. A liquid crystal display panel is additionally arranged to provide a liquid crystal display. The guide plate has a wedge-shaped cross section and a minor face at its thicker end provides the incidence end face along the primary light source. The emission face may be provided with light scattering pattern to promote emission. The projections may have a profile variation such as changing gradually from being arc-like to being triangular via transitive according to distance from the incidence end face and from side edges.

The present invention provides a symbol illumination apparatus configured to have a symbol such as characters printed on a front surface of a transparent member, and to allow light from a plurality of light sources to pass through an interior of the transparent member from one side of the transparent member, to illuminate the symbol. A lens sheet and a diffused sheet are inserted between the transparent member and the plurality of light sources in the symbol illumination apparatus. This configuration prevents a plurality of light rays from being seen on the bottom of the transparent member.

This invention relates to a method for producing cellular molded article in mold pattern of synthetic resin having surface skin which is used, for example, as an automobile interior trim material or the like and a mold pattern for producing thereof. This invention aims to provide a method for producing cellular molded article of synthetic resin having surface skin which has good production efficiency and which comprises that cellular molded article of synthetic resin obtained by cellular molding of expanded beads in which poor melt bonding does not occur and thermoplastic resin skin material united with this cellular molded article of synthetic resin which has excellent appearance without residing beads pattern on its surface, and a mold used for producing thereof. In so-called simultaneous united molding, at least the part of one mold part (5) on which thermoplastic resin skin material (3) is set is made of gas permeable metal mold, gas permeable ceramic mold or gas permeable electron casted mold (5d) having fine gas permeable holes of not more than 100 .mu.m of diameter on the whole surface (5a) and at least during steam heating and before expanding expanded beads (8), one mold part (5) on which thermoplastic resin skin material (3) is set is made to be the upper part, and the other mold part (6) is made to be the lower part.

The light control film provides improved front luminance and appropriate diffusion without the problems of interference pattern, glare. The light control film has a rough surface that, for substantially any arbitrary cross section perpendicular to a base plane of the film, has an average .theta..sub.ave of absolute values of slope, with respect to the base plane of a curve along the edge of the cross section, which is not less than 20 degrees and not more than 75 degrees, and has an absolute value of skewness (JIS B0601:2001) of the profile curve of not more than 1.2.