Patent ID: 8184234

Claim:
An optical-sheet supporting structure comprising: a flat light guide plate; an optical sheet having a smaller thickness than the light guide plate and being placed on said light guide plate; a base-side panel support that abuts a periphery of said light guide plate so as to hold said light guide plate; a holding-side panel support having an overall frame shape and including a facing portion, a surface of which adjacent to the optical sheet is held so as to directly face a surface of the optical sheet with a gap provided between the surface of the facing portion and the surface of the optical sheet, and the facing portion arranged such that the periphery of said light guide plate and a periphery of said optical sheet are held between the facing portion and said base-side panel support; and at least two posture retaining portions arranged to retain a posture of said facing portion so that said facing portion extends along a surface of said optical sheet.