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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1999
Shinichi Terao, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyasu Kitamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Masutani, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuhisa Furukawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display device has: a liquid crystal display unit a flexible circuit board which is connected to the liquid crystal display unit contact portions being formed in a tip end portion of the flexible circuit board, the flexible circuit board being bent back outside a holding member the holding member which holds the liquid crystal display unit a printed circuit board to which the holding member is attached, and on which contact portions are exposed; conductor-embedded elastic members through which the contact portions on the printed circuit board are connected to the contact portions of the flexible circuit board respectively; and a corrugated elastic member which is interposed between the holding member and the flexible circuit board to press the flexible circuit board The flexible circuit board is bent back outside the holding member and urged by the corrugated elastic member whereby the printed circuit board is electrically connected to the flexible circuit board