Patent ID: 8587746

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a backlight assembly comprising: a light guide plate including a light emitting surface facing a display panel, a lower surface opposing the light emitting surface, a light incident surface connecting the light emitting and lower surfaces to each other, and a plurality of side surfaces not parallel to the light incident surface, and connecting the light emitting and lower surfaces to each other, optical sheets which are disposed on the light guide plate, a reflective sheet which is disposed under the light guide plate opposing the optical sheets, light sources facing and adjacent to the light incident surface, light source covers which cover the light sources, respectively, guide members lengthwise respectively substantially parallel and adjacent to the plurality of side surfaces, and a packing sheet within which the light guide plate, the optical sheets, the reflective sheet, the light source covers, and the guide members are disposed; panel guides which are disposed on an upper surface of the packing sheet and coupled to the guide members, respectively; and a liquid crystal panel which is disposed on the panel guides.