Patent ID: 8547312

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a driving circuit portion driving a display panel portion in a flat shape while a light source is arranged on a back surface side of the display panel portion, and the driving circuit portion and a power unit which supplies electric power to the driving circuit portion are arranged on the back surface side; a case which forms a housing space for housing both the driving circuit portion and the power unit with the display panel portion; a partitioning wall portion which divides the housing space of the case; a gap which is formed between the display panel portion and the partitioning wall portion; and a cooling fan which leads outside air into the gap and which is arranged on the partitioning wall portion, wherein the driving circuit portion and the power unit are arranged on an opposite side of the partitioning wall portion against the gap, wherein the gap is shrunk along a direction from a downside to an upside of the display panel portion, wherein the gap is set to be wide in an area at which the cooling fan is arranged and is set to be narrow in an area at which the power unit is arranged, wherein the partitioning wall portion is tapered between the wide area and the narrow area of the gap, wherein the driving circuit portion is fixed on the partitioning wall portion in the narrow area of the gap, and the driving circuit portion is fixed on the partitioning wall portion so as to be positioned lower than the power unit, wherein the partitioning wall portion comprises: a first flat portion at a lower portion of the partitioning wall portion; a second flat portion at an upper portion of the partitioning wall portion; and a tapered portion between the first flat portion and the second flat portion, wherein the power unit is fixed at the second flat portion, and wherein the gap has a uniform thickness at the first flat portion, has a uniform thickness at the second flat portion, and is formed to shrink in a tapered form at the tapered portion.