Patent ID: 7423702

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel and an illumination unit that irradiates said liquid crystal display panel, said illumination unit including a housing having a rectangular bottom wall surface and cut and erected pieces formed at its side peripheral edge part by cutting out a part of said bottom wall surface and projecting the cut-out part from a rear surface, an illuminating member contained in said housing, and an intermediate frame that fixes said illuminating member and has at its central part a display window; said intermediate frame having, at positions corresponding to said cut and erected pieces, locking pieces that are to be inserted into openings that result when cutting out and erecting said cut and erected pieces; and clearances that are formed, when said intermediate frame has been fixed to said housing, between said cut and erected pieces of said housing and said locking pieces of said intermediate frame forming a lead fixing part for holding and fixing leads extracted from said illuminating member.