Patent 7515220 was granted and assigned to Samsung on April, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A display device including a display panel displaying an image; a light source unit supplying light to the display panel, and a light guiding unit including a light guiding section which has a light receiving surface positioned adjacent to the light source unit and a light emitting surface positioned opposite to the display panel and which guides light emitted from the light source unit to the display panel, a side wall section forming a reception space for receiving the display panel along the edges of the light guiding section, and a fixing section fixing the light guiding section to the display device.