Patent ID: 7909498

Claim:
A lighting device for a display device, comprising: a plurality of lamps; and a backlight lamp holding apparatus for mounting said plurality of lamps to a base member, said backlight lamp holding apparatus including: a resilient planar mounting plate that is to be mounted to said base member at a first surface of said mounting plate and that includes a plurality of abutting portions protruding from said first surface of said mounting plate; a locking portion having a base portion protruding from said first surface of said mounting plate, and an elastic locking piece extending from a tip end of said base portion; and a plurality of lamp holding portions that protrude from a second surface of said mounting plate and are adapted for holding said plurality of lamps, respectively; wherein said elastic locking piece includes a locking surface that is locked to a peripheral edge of amounting hole formed through said base member; said plurality of abutting portions are arranged to abut against a top surface of said base member.