Patent ID: 9121990
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G02B,H05K

Abstract:
1. A planar light source apparatus comprising: a light source; a flexible printed circuit (FPC), on which the light source is mounted, and which supplies power to the light source, wherein the FPC has a wiring part that extends from a light source mounting part having the light source; a rear frame that accommodates the light source and the FPC; and a driver substrate, which is arranged on a backside that is an opposite side of an inner surface of the rear frame, and which has a connector configured to connect the FPC, wherein an end portion of the wiring part is extracted to the backside through an opening hole formed in the rear frame and is connected to the connector, wherein the backside of the rear frame has a protrusion portion, which has an upper face that is arranged in the vicinity of an insertion slot of the connector into which the end portion of the wiring part of the FPC is inserted and which is formed to be substantially level with an arrangement position of the insertion slot, wherein the wiring part of the FPC is provided on the upper face of the protrusion portion, wherein the wiring part of the FPC, which is arranged on the inner surface of the rear frame, is accommodated on a convex part that protrudes toward the backside of the rear frame, the wiring part is accommodated on an inner side of the convex part and is fixed, and an entirety of the wiring part extending from the light source mounting part to an end of the convex part is accommodated on the inner side of the convex part, wherein the protrusion portion has a recess that is formed corresponding with an arrangement position of the FPC, and wherein the rear frame has a curved surface at a part at which at least one of the protrusion portion and the opening hole and the FPC are arranged to be adjacent to each other.