Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJae-Sang Lee
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Abstract
In a backlight assembly and a liquid crystal display apparatus, the backlight assembly has lamps parallel to each other to emit a light, a receiving container having a bottom portion and a side portion to receive the lamps, and a mold member coupled to the receiving container to cover the ends of the lamps. The mold member has a reflecting face having a diffusion pattern that reflects the light from the lamps and an upper face extending from the reflecting face in a plane substantially parallel to the bottom portion. Thus, a shadow portion of the backlight assembly may be removed, to thereby enhance image display quality of the liquid crystal display apparatus.
Claims28
A backlight assembly comprising:
- a plurality of lamps to generate light;
- a receiving container to receive the lamps, the receiving container having a bottom portion and a side portion;
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- a mold member coupled to the side portion of the receiving container while covering ends of the lamps, the mold member fixing the lamps to the side portion of the receiving container, the mold member having a reflecting face and an upper face extending from the reflecting face, the reflecting face having a diffusion pattern formed thereon so as to diffuse and reflect light from the lamps.
A liquid crystal display apparatus comprising:
- a backlight assembly comprising:
- a plurality of lamps to generate a light;
- a receiving container to receive the lamps, the receiving container having a bottom portion and a side portion;
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- a mold member coupled to the side portion of the receiving container while covering ends of the lamps, the mold member fixing the lamps to the side portion of the receiving container, the mold member having a reflecting face and an upper face extending from the reflecting face, the reflecting face having a diffusion pattern formed thereon so as to diffuse and reflect the light from the lamps,
- a liquid crystal display panel to display an image using the light supplied from the backlight assembly;
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- a top chassis to fix the liquid crystal display panel to the backlight assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.