Illumination device, display device, and television reception device

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to prevent damage that occurs in attaching a power supply board to connectors in an illumination device. An illumination device according to the present invention is an illumination device including a light source 17, a chassis 14 that houses the light source 17, a power supply board 30 that is disposed on the chassis 14 on the side opposite to the light source 17 and that supplies driving power to the light source 17, and relay connectors 20 that are attached to the chassis 14 and that relay the power supply from the power supply board 30 to the light source 17, wherein the power supply board 30 can be inserted into and removed from the relay connectors 20 in a direction along the plane of this board 30, and includes terminals 32, which are to be electrically connected to the respective relay connectors 20, on the front end thereof in the insertion direction into the relay connectors 20 and connector contact portions 34 that contact, preceding to the terminals 32, the side walls of the corresponding relay connectors 20 along the insertion direction of the power supply board 30 so as to guide the insertion of the terminals 32 into the relay connectors 20 when this power supply board 30 is inserted into the relay connectors 20.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.