Patent ID: 7726490

Claim:
A lid unit for closing a container body of a portable thin plate supporting container in which a plurality of thin plates are housed, said lid unit comprising: a thin plate presser, fixed to an inner surface of said lid unit, for supporting a plurality of thin plates housed in the container body, wherein the thin plate presser comprises: two base end supports fixed in parallel to an inner surface of the lid unit; a plurality of contact pieces each of which comes into direct contact with a periphery of a thin plate; a plurality of elastic support plates extending from and supported by each of the base end supports, the elastic support plates extending from one of the base end supports being respectively paired with opposing elastic support plates extending from the other base end support, each of the paired support plates having distal ends connected to and supporting outer ends of said contact pieces, with plural contact pieces arranged between the distal ends of each pair of opposing support plates; and a plurality of connecting plates, each connecting plate connecting and supporting inner ends of the plural contact pieces between the distal ends of a pair of supporting plates.