Patent ID: 7969529
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a liquid crystal display panel; and a backlight structural body which is mounted on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the backlight structural body includes: between a back plate and a frame-like mold frame, a plurality of external electrode fluorescent lamps which is arranged in parallel to each other, and a pair of side frames which includes electricity supply terminals which electrically connect electrode portions of the plurality of external electrode fluorescent lamps in parallel to each other, the side frame includes: a lower side frame which fixes the electricity supply terminals; and an upper side frame which is assembled to the lower side frame while covering the electrode portions of the external electrode fluorescent lamps which are connected to the electricity supply terminals, the upper side frame includes a wall surface, commonly covering electrode portions of the plurality of external electrode fluorescent lamps, having an inclination directed in the liquid crystal display panel direction, the upper side frame further includes eaves which project in the longitudinal direction of the external electrode fluorescent lamps in a state that the eaves individually cover the respective electrode portions of the external electrode fluorescent lamps, and wherein the eaves are formed into a half frusto-conical shape in which a frusto-conical shape projecting in the longitudinal direction of the external electrode fluorescent lamp from the upper side frame and gradually decreasing a diameter thereof is cut in half by a plane parallel to an arrangement plane of the plurality of external electrode fluorescent lamps.