Patent ID: 7626653

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a rear frame formed by cutting and bending a metal plate, the rear frame including a rectangular bottom portion, a pair of connecting portions extending from two longer sides of the bottom portion slantwise upward with respect to the bottom portion, and a pair of support portions bent from the respective connecting portions outwardly in parallel with the bottom portion; a pair of light frames for retaining a backlight on its lower side; a rectangular diffusion plate for diffusing light disposed on the pair of light frames and the pair of support portions; a rectangular diffusion sheet superposed on the diffusion plate; a cell guide of a rectangular frame-like form for holding down outer peripheral portions of the diffusion plate and diffusion sheet; a liquid crystal cell, disposed on an upper portion of the cell guide and having a pair of opposing glass substrates with liquid crystal filled in a space therebetween; and a bezel of a rectangular frame-like form for holding down the cell guide and liquid crystal cell, characterized in that the cell guide has longer side portions, shorter side portions, an engagement portion provided vertically downward extending from an outer edge of each shorter side portion on a lower face side of the cell guide, and having a pouch-like portion open to an inside of the cell guide, and a reentrant portion formed in each shorter side portion on the lower face side, each of the paired light frames has bosses protruding from an upper face thereof, and locking portions each having a locking nail protruding to an outer face side when the pair of light frames is attached to the rear frame, and formed so as to be elastically deformable, and the cell guide is positioned by fitting the bosses of the pair of light frames in the reentrant portions, and engaging the engagement portions with the corresponding locking nails of the pair of light frames, and is fastened to the rear frame or the pair of light frames by bolts together with the bezel.