Patent ID: 8339540

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a liquid crystal display panel; a plurality of light emitting diodes serving as backlight light sources of the liquid crystal display panel; an LED substrate on which the plurality of light emitting diodes are mounted; a reflection sheet made of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion different from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the LED substrate and overlaid on a surface of the LED substrate on which the plurality of light emitting diodes are mounted; and a fixing member and a retaining member which extend through the reflection sheet and the LED substrate so as to fix the reflection sheet and the LED substrate to each other, wherein: the reflection sheet comprises a fixing hole into which the fixing member is inserted, a retaining hole into which the retaining member is inserted, and a plurality of LED holes within which the plurality of light emitting diodes are disposed, respectively; retaining of the reflection sheet by the retaining member has, compared to fixing of the reflection sheet by the fixing member, a higher degree of freedom of movement in a direction along a surface of the reflection sheet; and the plurality of LED holes located in positions far from the fixing hole are larger than the plurality of LED holes located in positions close to the fixing hole.