Patent ID: 8851695

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate; a backlight unit disposed in a rear of the display panel, the backlight unit including an optical layer positioned in rear of the display panel; a plurality of brackets attached to a non-display area of a back surface of the display panel, each of the plurality of brackets including a first portion disposed on a rear surface of the display panel and a second portion protruded from the first portion in a vertical direction; a groove formed on a first surface of the first portion of the bracket facing the rear surface of the display panel; and an adhesive layer disposed in the groove, wherein the second portion of the bracket is protruded from a second surface opposite to the first surface of the first portion in the vertical direction, and wherein a normal line passes through a borderline between an active area and a dummy area of the display panel, meets the bracket and passes through the optical layer.