Lighting device and display device

Abstract

A backlight device 12 includes LEDs 15, a light guide plate 17, an inner frame-shaped portion 20b, a light guide late holding portion 24, an outer frame-shaped portion 21B, and elastic abutment portions 25. The light guide plate 17 includes an outer peripheral end surface. The outer peripheral end surface includes an end surface opposed to the LEDs 15 and defined as a light entering surface through which light from the LEDs 15 enters. The light guide plate 17 includes a pair of plate surfaces. One of the plate surfaces is defined as a light exiting plate surface 17b through which the light exits. The inner frame-shaped portion 20b is opposed to the outer peripheral end surface to surround the light guide plate 17. The light guide plate holding portion 24 is disposed between at least a part of the outer peripheral end surface of the light guide plate 17 and the inner frame-shaped portion 20b to hold the light guide plate 17. The outer frame-shaped portion 21b surrounds the inner frame-shaped portion 20b to overlap an outer side of the inner frame-shaped portion 20b. The elastic abutment portions 25 included in the light guide plate holding portion 24 are elastically abutted against the outer frame-shaped portion 21b.

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