Patent ID: 7540650

Claim:
A backlight lamp holding apparatus for mounting a lamp to a base member, the lamp holding apparatus comprising: a resilient, planar mounting plate that is to be mounted to said base member at a first surface of said mounting plate and that includes a plurality of abutting portions extending from the first surface of said mounting plate facing said base member; a locking portion including a base portion protruding from said first surface of said mounting plate, and an elastic locking piece extending from a tip end of the base portion and including a locking surface which is locked to a peripheral edge of a mounting hole formed in said base member when said locking portion is inserted into the mounting hole in said base member so as to lock said base member to said mounting plate; and a plurality of backlight lamp holding portions protrude from a second surface of said mounting plate and are adapted for holding a peripheral surface of a plurality of lamps, respectively; wherein said plurality of abutting portions are arranged to abut a top surface of said base member and not extend through the base member to prevent rattling between said base member and said mounting plate when said locking portion is inserted into the mounting hole provided in said base member to lock said base member to said mounting plate; and said locking portion is arranged at substantially a center between adjacent abutting portions and at substantially a center between adjacent lamp holding portions.