Patent ID: 9625644
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G02B

Claim:
1. A backlight assembly comprising: a light guide plate having a recessed stepped portion in a plan view; a light source assembly providing a light to the light guide plate; and a receiving container which receives the light guide plate and the light source assembly, the receiving container including a bottom plate, a sidewall that extends continuously from an edge portion of the bottom plate in a vertical direction and extends in a first horizontal direction in a plan view, and a fixing portion that extends continuously from the sidewall into the recessed stepped portion of the light guide plate in a second horizontal direction substantially perpendicular to the first horizontal direction in the plan view so that the sidewall is unitary and indivisible with the bottom plate and the fixing portion, wherein the fixing portion has a plate shape substantially parallel to a vertical direction, and a thickness of the fixing portion along the first horizontal direction is substantially same as the thickness of the sidewall along the second horizontal direction.