Patent ID: 7758197

Claim:
A backlight assembly comprising: a container including a bottom face and side faces extending therefrom defining a receiving space; a plurality of lamps arranged in parallel in the container; and a lamp-fixing member including a support body arranged in the container along a direction intersecting a direction of extension of the lamps arranged in parallel, a lamp-fixing portion protruding from the support body to cover a respective lamp, and a plurality of bosses protruding from an inner face of the lamp-fixing portion to fix the respective lamp with a corresponding lamp-fixing portion, the plurality of bosses being substantially rigid, the boss and the lamp-fixing portion being integrally formed with the support body as an indivisible unitary part, wherein each boss has a pyramidal shape, is entirely spaced apart from any other adjacent boss, has a symmetrical cross section, an end of the pyramidal boss includes a groove having a curvature substantially matching that of the lamp and each lamp makes contact with only the plurality of bosses protruding from the inner face of the corresponding lamp-fixing portion.