Patent ID: 7965349

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate having a main surface on which is formed a display region in which numeral pixel circuits are arrayed in a matrix, a second substrate having one side that recedes from a corresponding side of the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer that is sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate, with a semiconductor chip that drives the pixel circuits being mounted on the main surface of the first substrate which is exposed by the recession of the second substrate, and wire terminals that connect to the semiconductor chip; a backlight that illuminates a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel with illumination light; a mold frame that houses the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight; and a reflection sheet disposed on a back surface of the mold frame, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a flexible printed substrate having one end portion connected to the wire terminals on the main surface of the first substrate and another end portion on which light-emitting diodes are mounted, wherein the mold frame includes a housing portion for a light guide plate which has a light-exiting surface including the display region of the liquid crystal display panel and housing portions for the light-emitting diodes, and wherein when the flexible printed substrate is folded around to the back surface side of the backlight and the light-emitting diodes mounted on the other end portion of the flexible printed substrate are housed in the housing portions for the light-emitting diodes of the mold frame, an end surface of the other end portion of the flexible printed substrate faces, in the same plane, an end surface of the reflection sheet.