Patent ID: 7777431

Claim:
A backlight apparatus, comprising: a long tubular fluorescent tube; and a pair of inverter transformers for converting input voltages into high voltages and supplying high voltages having opposite phases to the ends of the fluorescent tube, wherein one inverter transformer of the pair of inverter transformers is positioned in close proximity to one end of the fluorescent tube and the other inverter transformer of the pair of inverter transformers is positioned in close proximity to the other end of the fluorescent tube, the length of a connection between the one inverter transformer and the one end of the fluorescent tube being substantially shorter than the distance between the one inverter transformer and the other end of the fluorescent tube, and the length of a connection between the other inverter transformer and the other end of the fluorescent tube being substantially shorter than the distance between the other inverter transformer and the one end of the fluorescent tube.