Patent ID: 8084957

Claim:
An illuminating apparatus for a display device, comprising: a plurality of illuminating units including: a first feeding member; a second feeding member; and a cold-cathode tube lamp to which power is supplied from a power supply apparatus via the first and second feeding members; an equivalent circuit of each of the illuminating units being a series combination of a negative resistor and a capacitor connected to an end of the negative resistor; wherein at least one of the illuminating units is arranged such that the capacitor thereof is opposite in position to the capacitor of each of other ones of the illuminating units; and a number of the illuminating units, the capacitor of each of which is disposed in one position in a direction of a tubular axis of the cold-cathode tube lamp, is equal to a number of the illuminating units, the capacitor of each of which is disposed in a counter position that is opposite to the one position, the capacitor being a component of the equivalent circuit.