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A light-emitting diode (LED) device has a plurality of mutually separated terminal plates disposed on the bottom part of a horizontally elongated rectangular reflector case having an open front surface. Where a pair of these terminal plates is adjacent to each other with a gap in between, a LED chip is bonded to one of them and connected through a wire to the other. Terminal lead lines are extended from the terminal plates downward through the reflector case. The end parts of such a pair are shaped such that the gap therebetween has an horizontally extended part. When such a LED device is inserted into a groove formed in a light-conducting plate with a specified thickness to form an illuminator with a light-emitting surface, shearing stress is developed inside the reflector case as the terminal lead lines are passed through throughholes in the reflector case but is absorbed by the parts adjacent to such a horizontally extended portion of the gap.
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