A back light unit, in which bright lines produced from point light
sources, light emitting diodes, in an oblique direction are removed, so
that brightness can be uniformly maintained at a liquid crystal panel.
The back light unit includes a prism light guide plate, light emitting
diodes provided on one side of the prism light guide plate, and a
bright-line dead section provided to the prism light guide plate so as to
uniformly scatter light of each light condensing section generated by
light emitted from the light emitting diodes, to prevent a spectrum of
the light in a specific direction, and to prevent bright lines from being
produced.