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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Sewon Oh, Seoul, KR;
Eunseok Kim, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A backlight unit can include a frame including a bottom and a sidewall extending from the bottom; at least one substrate located on the frame, and a plurality of light sources mounted on the at least one substrate; and a reflecting sheet located on the at least one substrate, in which the reflecting sheet includes a first sheet part located on the bottom, the first sheet part including a plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of the light sources; and a second sheet part extended from the first sheet part, the second sheet part including a horizontal dot area located along a long side of the reflecting sheet and a vertical dot area located along a short side of the reflecting sheet, and at least one of the horizontal dot area and the vertical dot area comprising first areas and second areas. Further, the first areas correspond to outermost holes among the plurality of holes, and the second areas are located between the first areas, the first areas and the second areas include a plurality of dot areas, each of the dot areas includes a plurality of dots, a size of dots included in one of the plurality of dot areas is different from a size of dots included in another of the plurality of dot areas in the first area, a size of dots included in one of the plurality of dot areas is different from a size of dots included in another of the plurality of dot areas in the second area.