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Backlight module with detachable illuminator support apparatus and liquid crystal display utilizing same

  • US 7,924,367 B2
  • Filed: 09/02/2008
  • Issued: 04/12/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A backlight module comprising:

  • a frame defining a through hole therein, the through hole comprising an assembly hole and a location hole communicating with each other, a diameter of the location hole being less than a diameter of the assembly hole; and

    an illuminator support apparatus comprising a supporting body, the supporting body being slidable from the assembly hole to the location hole and secured to the frame after the supporting body is snugly rotated;

    wherein the supporting body comprises a base connected by a neck to the supporting body, a lateral surface of the neck comprises two parallel planar side surfaces opposite to each other and two opposite curved side surfaces interconnected to the two planar side surfaces, a maximum distance between two curved side surfaces is substantially equal to the diameter of the location hole, and the neck is capable of sliding from the assembly hole to the location hole along a direction parallel to a length direction of the two planar side surfaces, and then rotating in the location hole so that the two curved side surfaces abut against the location hole.

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