A light guide plate of an LED backlight unit is disclosed. The light guide
plate comprises a pair of wide planes facing each other, and a narrow
plane formed between the pair of wide planes and constituting a thickness
of the light guide plate. The narrow plane has an incident plane formed
on a section of the narrow plane facing the LED light source, and one of
the wide planes constitutes an exiting plane from which light entered
from the LED light source exits. The incident plane has a plurality of
elliptic cylinder-shaped grooves carved into the incident plane in a
thickness direction of the light guide plate. As such, the elliptic
cylinder-shaped grooves are carved into the incident plane of the light
guide plate in the thickness direction, widening an incidence angle of
which light can be transmitted therethrough.