Patent ID: 8334947
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: G02B,G02F

Abstract:
1. A backlight assembly structured to provide backlighting by way of light rays passing vertically through a lateral plane having first and second axes respectively extending laterally in respective and orthogonal first and second directions, the plane being substantially parallel to a corresponding flat panel display device, the backlight assembly comprising: an elongated first lamp extending in the first direction and having corresponding first and second ends; an elongated second lamp having corresponding third and fourth ends that are spaced apart from counterpart ones of the first and second ends of the first lamp along a third direction that is orthogonal to the first and second directions and by a predetermined first gap distance (d a distance-fixing part fixing a spacing in the third direction and between the first and second lamps in a non-end position along the lengths of the elongated lamps so as to define a second gap distance (d