Patent ID: 8184233

Claim:
A backlight chassis for a liquid crystal display panel, comprising: a plurality of chassis plates each defined by a metal sheet that has been cut and stamped into a predetermined shape; wherein each of the plurality of chassis plates corresponds to one of a plurality of sections into which a whole chassis is divided; adjoining ones of the plurality of chassis plates are connected to each other to define the whole chassis; a trough-shaped portion is provided in each of the plurality of chassis plates at a portion thereof which defines a longer side of the whole chassis; a superposition portion is defined at a border portion between adjoining trough-shaped portions of the plurality of chassis plates; at the superposition portion, a cutout portion is defined in a first one of the trough-shaped portions on a side thereof facing a center of a respective one of the plurality of chassis plates to which the first one of the trough-shaped portions belongs, and a cutout portion is defined in a second one of the trough-shaped portions on a side thereof that faces an outside of the respective one of the plurality of chassis plates to which the second one of the trough shaped portions belongs; and the trough-shaped portions at the superposition portion interlace with each other such that a remaining portion of the second one of the trough-shaped portion fits into the cutout portion of the first one of the trough-shaped portions.