Patent ID: 7165875

Claim:
A display device comprising a substrate type display element integrally inserted, housed and held in a frame-like casing made of a material softer than a material of substrates which constitute the display element, wherein the casing includes a picture-frame-like portion which forms an opening in a front surface side thereof for inserting the display element therein and surrounds a periphery of the display element, and a bottom portion which is integrally formed with the picture-frame-like portion at at least a portion of a back surface of the casing opposite to the front surface side, a guide projection which extends in the bottom-portion direction from the front surface side is formed on an inner wall of a side of the picture-frame-like portion which is brought into contact with an outer periphery of the substrate which constitutes the display element, the guide projection is shaped as a semi-circular column, and a bottom-portion-side end portion of the guide projection terminates so as to form a gap between the guide projection and the bottom-portion of the casing.