Illumination – Edge lighted panel – Light guide
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
Negron, Ismael (Department: 2885)
Illumination
Edge lighted panel
Light guide
C362S625000, C362S615000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07866870
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.
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Baek Seung-In
Hwang In-Sun
Kim Hyoung-Joo
Kwon Jae-Jong
Shim Sung-Kyu
Cantor & Colburn LLP
Negron Ismael
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
Shallenberger Julie A
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