Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

JinHee Park

Hyoung-Joo Kim

JooYoung Kim

Jae-Hyun Kim

Young-Min Park

Sung-Kyu Shim

Seokhyun Nam

Gicherl Kim

So-yeon Lee

Heugon Kim

A spacer member is provided within a display apparatus that includes a heat-emitting light source and a thermally deformable light guide plate. In one embodiment, the spacer member includes a pair of spacer members disposed at sides of the light source and engaging the light guide plate so as to space the light source from a light receiving incident surface of the PGP by a predetermined distance.

Display apparatus having thermally protected backlight assembly

A display apparatus includes a light guide plate, a light source unit, a display panel, a receiving container, and a driving part. The light guide plate includes at least one chamfered corner and a light incident surface defined by the chamfered corner. The light source unit generates the light and is positioned adjacent to the light incident surface. The display panel receives the light to display an image and the receiving container includes a bottom and sidewalls extended from the bottom to receive the light guide plate and the light source unit. The driving part is electrically connected to the display panel to apply a driving signal to the display panel and is electrically connected to the light source unit to apply a power source voltage to the light source unit.

Backlight assembly and display apparatus having the same

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Cheonan-si, South Korea

JinHee Park