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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2008
Sung-kyu Shim, Seoul, KR;
Seung-in Baek, Seoul, KR;
Hyoung-joo Kim, Uiwang-si, KR;
Jae-jong Kwon, Suwon-si, KR;
In-sun Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Sung-Kyu Shim, Seoul, KR;
Seung-In Baek, Seoul, KR;
Hyoung-Joo Kim, Uiwang-si, KR;
Jae-Jong Kwon, Suwon-si, KR;
In-Sun Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A backlight assembly which can reduce manufacturing costs and enhance display quality of a liquid crystal display ('LCD'). The backlight assembly includes: a light source emitting light; and a light guide plate ('LGP') including an incident surface on which light emitted from the light source is incident, a top surface which adjoins the incident surface, and a bottom surface which adjoins the incident surface, faces the top surface, and includes a plurality of lower prisms separated from one another and flat portions interposed between the lower prisms, wherein each of the lower prisms includes a first surface and a second surface which are adjacent to each other, the first surface including a plurality of oblique planes having different positive slopes, the second surface having a negative slope, and where the slope forms an angle with a line normal to the incident surface.