Patent ID: 8384838

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a front frame; a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit having a rear frame, the backlight unit comprising a backlight chassis adapted to form a side frame of the backlight unit, the backlight chassis and the rear frame forming an outer case of the backlight unit and enclosing an optical sheet, a light source held by a light source support, and a reflection sheet in this sequence from a side of the liquid crystal panel, an end portion of the rear frame being bent from a main portion towards the liquid crystal panel and being coupled along the side frame of the backlight unit, wherein the front frame, the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit are arranged in this sequence: the front frame is attached from a display screen side of the liquid crystal panel to hold the entire liquid crystal panel and the back light unit, and a back fixing member having a side face and a back face formed thereon is provided behind the rear frame of the backlight unit to fix the side face of the back fixing member to a side face of the front frame without being fixed to the rear frame of the backlight unit in such a manner that the back face of the back fixing member is spaced apart from the rear frame of the backlight unit, and the back fixing member is provided with an attachment portion having at least one threaded hole to be attached to an external chassis to which the liquid crystal display device is to be fixed.