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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2011
Masatoshi Tomomasa, Osaka, JP;
Masatoshi Tomomasa, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an illumination device capable of housing and fixing a plurality of light guide plates inside a chassis. The illumination device has a rectangular box-shaped chassis, a plurality of horizontally long rectangular light guide plates that are housed inside the chassis while arranged side by side on the bottom surface, light sources that emit light to the shorter side end faces of the respective light guide plates such that the light enters the respective light guide plates, and a plurality of support members that clamp the respective light guide plates on the bottom surface of the chassis. Each support member has a holding part that makes contact with upper surfaces of respective light guide plates at the long-side edges, a shank extending from the holding part, and a pair of locking pieces elastically deformable toward and away from each other, the pair of locking pieces being provided at an end of the shank and being inserted and engaged in an attachment hole in the bottom plate.