Patent ID: 7448784

Claim:
A lighting device arranged in a bezel of a liquid crystal module for illuminating liquid crystal cells from the back via a light guide plate, comprising: a lamp reflector, a lateral cross section of which is a C-shape, having a bottom plate and a pair of side plates which are bent from the bottom plate at right angles, cutout portions formed at both end portions of the bottom plate; a straight-pipe-shaped light source arranged in the lamp reflector; a pair of lead wires brazed to the straight-pipe-shaped light source; and a pair of sockets made of elastic material, having a socket body, a width of which is substantially the same as an interval between the side plates of the lamp reflector, and also having a branch portion integrally protruding from a bottom face of the socket body, a substantially L-shaped through-passage being formed in a region from an inner end face of the socket body to an end face of the branch portion, wherein: each end face of both side plates of the lamp reflector is used as a positioning point; and a positioning protrusion integrally protrudes from each side outer end edge portion of the socket body opposed to each positioning point, respectively.