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US 2010/0246162 A1Published application
Lamp socket and display device having the same
OwnerJoo-Woan Cho, Seong-Sik Choi +1inventors
InventorsJoo-Woan Cho, Seong-Sik Choi, Yong-Woo Lee
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Abstract
A lamp socket formed to facilitate the performance of a lamp assembly, and a display device having the lamp socket, are provided. The lamp socket includes a holding portion mounted on a board, and a terminal portion bent from the holding portion and having a lamp insertion hole into which a lamp is securely inserted, wherein the lamp insertion hole is formed through the terminal portion and has a cross-sectional width gradually decreasing toward a lower portion of the terminal portion.
Claims20
A lamp socket comprising:
- a holding portion mounted on a board;
- and
- a terminal portion forming an angle with the holding portion and having a lamp insertion hole into which a lamp is inserted, wherein the lamp insertion hole is formed through the terminal portion and has widths gradually decreasing toward a lower portion of the terminal portion.
A display device comprising:
- a backlight assembly including:
- a board;
- a lamp socket including a holding portion mounted on the board, and a terminal portion forming an angle with the holding portion and having a lamp insertion hole;
- and
- a lamp inserted into the lamp insertion hole;
- and
- a display panel receiving light from the lamp to display an image,
- wherein the lamp insertion hole is formed through the terminal portion and has a cross-sectional width gradually decreasing toward a lower portion of the terminal portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.