Patent ID: 6874911

Claim:
A light irradiating unit comprises an illuminant loading member that has illuminant loading face that can be curved and on which a plurality of illuminants are loaded, a holding frame having a curved supporting face that holds the illuminant loading member and a tabular heat-dissipating member having at least a surface flexible and adhesive to enable the surface to tightly attach to a back face of the illuminant loading face by transforming itself to conform and wrap around a lead wire of the illuminant or an electronic component projecting from the back side of the illuminant loading face, the tabular heat-dissipating member has a characteristic of keeping its shape along a direction of its thickness when affixed on the curved illuminant loading face, and characterized by the heat-dissipating member being generally tightly attached to the back face of the illuminant loading face and the supporting face of the holding frame that faces to the back face of the illuminant loading face respectively and the illuminant loading face is held in a curved state along the supporting face.