US Patent 7126560 Display device having panel display unit

A display device comprising: a housing; a plate-shaped display unit having respective side walls; and a fixing means for fixing the display unit to the housing; the fixing means including a Z-direction holding means for holding the display unit in the thickness direction and also including an X-direction holding means and a Y-direction holding means for holding the display unit in the X-direction and the Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction; at least one of the X-direction holding means and the Y-direction holding means being composed of wall sections, which are opposed to each other, of the housing adjacent to respective side walls of the display unit; a protruding section being formed which protrudes from the side wall of the display unit to the wall section; the wall section having a cutout engaging with the protruding section at a position of the wall section corresponding to the protruding section; and the other of the X-direction holding means and the Y-direction holding means being composed by engagement of the protruding section with the cutout.