US 10,295,731 B2Granted

Display device

AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.

InventorMoonshik Kang

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Abstract

A display device includes a display panel, an accommodating member including a bottom portion and a sidewall extending from the bottom portion, a backlight unit including a light source inside the accommodating member and a light source substrate inside the accommodating member and on which the light source is mounted, and a driving substrate connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member. The driving substrate includes a first extending portion disposed outside the accommodating member, a second extending portion extended from the first extending portion and through the sidewall of the accommodating member to dispose an end portion of the second extending portion inside the accommodating member, and a pad portion disposed on a lower surface of the end portion of the second extending portion and inside the accommodating member. The pad portion is electrically connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A display device comprising:

a display panel which displays an image with light;
an accommodating member comprising a bottom portion and a sidewall which extends from the bottom portion;
a backlight unit which provides the light to the display panel, the backlight unit comprising a light source which is inside the accommodating member and generates the light and a light source substrate which is inside the accommodating member and on which the light source is mounted;
and
a driving substrate which is connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member and controls the light source to generate the light, the driving substrate comprising:
a first extending portion extending in a first direction parallel to the sidewall;
and
a second extending portion extended from the first extending portion, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and through the sidewall of the accommodating member to dispose an end portion of the second extending portion inside the accommodating member, and
wherein
the end portion of the second extending portion is electrically connected to the light source substrate, and
and the first extending portion is in contact with the sidewall.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/964,313Filed 27 Apr 2018 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2015-012304831 Aug 2015
Published: US 2018/0246271 A130 Aug 2018
Granted: 21 May 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G02B 6/0083
Mechanical or electrical aspects of the light guide and light source in the lighting device peculiar to the adaptation to planar light guides,…:…
G02B 6/0091
Positioning aspects: of the light source relative to the light guide
G02B 6/0051
Provided by one optical element, or plurality thereof, placed on the light output side of the light guide: diffusing sheet or layer
G02B 6/0053
Provided by one optical element, or plurality thereof, placed on the light output side of the light guide: prismatic sheet or layer; Brightness…

Family

Application15/078,025Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Mar 2016
US 2018/0246271 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Aug 2018
US 9,983,349 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0059768 A1Published application
US 10,295,731 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.