Patent ID: 7683541

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a rectangular thin plate form display device with a surface on one side in the thickness direction thereof as a display surface configured to display an image and with a surface on the other side as a back surface; rigid substrates each connected to an edge of said display device through a flexible substrate, operative to drive said display device, and each being elongate along said edge of said display device; a front cover covering said display surface of said display device; a rectangular thin plate form reinforcing plate attached to said back surface of said display device; and a rear cover covering said back surface of said display device and a back surface of said reinforcing plate; wherein said front cover having a front surface part located on the front side of said display surface, and side surface parts bent respectively from four edges of said front surface part to the rear side, and said rigid substrates are bent to the rear side respectively via the corresponding flexible substrates and are respectively overlapped with and attached to the four edges of the back surface of said reinforcing plate, wherein substrate covers are provided for respectively covering said rigid substrates overlapped with the four edges of said back surface of said reinforcing plate, said substrate covers each have a back surface part located on the rear side of said rigid substrate, and a side surface part bent from an end portion of said back surface part to the front side, and are movable in the directions for spacing away respectively from the edges of said reinforcing plate in the plane of said reinforcing plate, and outside surfaces of front portions of said side surface parts of said substrate covers are set in contact with, and joined to, the inside surfaces of said side surface parts of said front cover.