Patent ID: 6417897
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: G02B,G02F

Abstract:
A flat-panel display device comprising:a display panel including a light-transmission type display cell, driving circuits electrically connected to said display cell and control circuit boards electrically connected to said display cell via said driving circuits; a surface illuminant unit including a substantially rectangular light guide plate and a tubular light source disposed on at least one edge surface of said light guide plate, one of the main surfaces of said light guide plate being a light-emitting surface, said at least one edge surface being a light-introducing surface(s); and a bezel holding said display panel interposed between it and said surface illuminant unit; wherein at least one adjacent edge surface adjacent to said light introducing surface(s) is inwardly inclined to form an acute angle &thgr; relative to said light emitting surface, so that at least a part of said driving circuits or at least a part of said control circuit boards is disposed in a vacancy created by the inclination of said adjacent edge surface; and wherein said light emitting surface of the light guide plate is adjacent to said at least one adjacent edge surface.