Patent ID: 7748862

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a bottom chassis having an opening; a unitary light guide plate disposed over the bottom chassis, the light guide plate including an incident surface and an inclined portion from a lower side of the light guide plate toward an upper side of the light guide plate; a liquid crystal display panel disposed over the light guide plate to display an image; a flexible printed circuit board connected to the liquid crystal display panel and bent toward a rear surface of the bottom chassis such that the flexible printed circuit board is fixed to the rear surface of the bottom chassis; and at least one point light source electrically coupled to the flexible printed circuit board and disposed at an adjacent position to the incident surface of the light guide plate, wherein a light emitting surface of the point light source substantially corresponds to the incident surface of the light guide plate, wherein the inclined portion is formed at an adjacent position to the incident surface, wherein the liquid crystal display panel comprises a display area on which the image is displayed and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and the inclined portion is disposed in the peripheral area, and wherein the at least one point light source passes through the opening of the bottom chassis and at least a portion of the inclined portion is inserted into the opening of the bottom chassis.