Patent ID: 8517592

Claim:
A lighting device comprising: a light emitting component; a light guide member; and a base member on which the light emitting component and the light guide member are provided, the light guide member including: a holding portion having a holding space in the light guide member such that an opening size of the holding portion increases in a direction in which a molding die for forming the holding space is removed when forming the holding space and configured to hold the light emitting component in the holding space; a light entrance surface provided in the holding space; a scattering surface formed by performing perforation processing; a light exit surface through which light exits to outside of the light guide member after traveling through the light guide member and reflecting off the scattering surface; and the light entrance surface is an inclined surface being inclined with respect to a surface extending in the direction in which the molding die is removed that is a reference plane so as to face toward a surface of the base member.