Patent attributes
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel for displaying images, a light guide plate adjacent the liquid crystal display panel for providing light supplied to an edge of the light guide plate to the liquid crystal display panel, and a bottom chassis having at least one slit thereon. A flexible printed circuit board on the light guide plate includes at least one housing within the at least one slit, the at least one housing supporting a light emitting diode for supplying light to the light guide plate. A thickness of a lower end of the housing on a first side of the light emitting diode varies from a thickness of an upper end of the housing on a second opposite side of the light emitting diode.