BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME

摘要

A backlight unit and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight unit including light emitting elements disposed in parallel with each other along a rear side of a display panel; and light guide blocks. Each of the light blocks has a shape of a conical hat and respectively corresponds to one of the light emitting elements. Each of the light guide blocks also includes an accommodation part accommodating the light emitting element such that light radiated from the light emitting element is incident to the light guide block; a slope part extending at an angle from an edge of the bottom side of the guide block toward the display panel and refracting light spread in the light guide block to transmit the light to the display panel; and a pattern part having a patterned shape so as to reflect light spread in the light guide block toward the slope part.