Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between an element substrate and an opposing substrate; a plurality of spacers; and a Hack matrix provided on a surface on the element substrate side of the opposing substrate and having a first portion that extends in a row direction to separate a plurality of subpixels arranged in a column direction and a second portion that extends in the column direction to separate a plurality of subpixels arranged in the row direction, are included. The first portion is formed by alternately disposing first regions and second regions having a narrower area than the first regions every two subpixels arranged in the row direction. The spacer is disposed in any of the first regions. The spacer in disposed in the first regions. Spacers arranged in odd-numbered rows and spacers arranged in even-numbered rows do not adjoin each other in the column direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between an element substrate and an opposing substrate; a plurality of spacers; and a Hack matrix provided on a surface on the element substrate side of the opposing substrate and having a first portion that extends in a row direction to separate a plurality of suhpixels arranged in a column direction and a second portion that extends in the column direction to separate a plurality of subpixels arranged in the row direction, are included. The first portion is formed by alternately disposing first regions and second regions having a narrower area than the first regions every two subpixels arranged in the row direction. The spacer is disposed in any of the first regions. The spacer in disposed in the first regions. Spacers arranged in odd-numbered rows and spacers arranged in even-numbered rows do not adjoin each other in the column direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element (10) of the present invention includes a transparent common electrode (40) which is provided in a layer between (i) a scan line (20) and a signal line (19) and (ii) a pixel electrode (30) so that the transparent common electrode (40) covers a location which faces at least one of (i) at least part of the scan line (20) and (ii) at least part of the signal line (19), the transparent common electrode (40) having an opening part (41) at a location which faces the pixel electrode (30).

Abstract: First subpixel group and second subpixel group are disposed alternately in a direction orthogonal to a gate bus line. A first subpixel and a second subpixel have shapes axially symmetric about a symmetry axis. Each of a plurality of first subpixels includes a plurality of first strip electrodes inclined by an angle of ? clockwise with respect to a rubbing direction. Each of a plurality of second subpixels includes a plurality of second strip electrodes inclined by an angle of ? counterclockwise with respect to a rubbing direction. Each of a plurality of source bus lines includes a first inclined part inclined by an angle of ? clockwise with respect to a rubbing direction and a second inclined part inclined by an angle of ? counterclockwise with respect to a rubbing direction. A rubbing direction is orthogonal to a gate bus line. Each of a plurality of spacers is disposed in a vicinity of a source bus line and also disposed linearly in parallel with a rubbing direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element (10) of the present invention includes a transparent common electrode (40) which is provided in a layer between (i) a scan line (20) and a signal line (19) and (ii) a pixel electrode (30) so that the transparent common electrode (40) covers a location which faces at least one of (i) at least part of the scan line (20) and (ii) at least part of the signal line (19), the transparent common electrode (40) having an opening part (41) at a location which faces the pixel electrode (30).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate including a plurality of pixel electrodes provided in a matrix of a plurality of rows by a plurality columns; a counter substrate including a counter electrode; a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; and axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions each for forming a liquid crystal domain in which liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in axis symmetry, the axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions each being located at the center of the respective liquid crystal domain. The plurality of pixel electrodes each define a pixel area. The axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions ; are each provided in correspondence with an area between two pixel areas defined by two pixel electrodes adjacent to each other.

Abstract: Each pixel includes: a pixel electrode (1) which is rectangular and a counter electrode (2) which has an opening (5a), the pixel electrode (1) and the counter electrode (2) being provided so as to face each other; and a liquid crystal layer which is provided between the pixel electrode (1) and the counter electrode(2), in plan view, a distance being not less than 10 ?m and not more than 30 ?m between each of short sides of the pixel electrode (1) and the opening (5a).

Abstract: In a picture element (100), transmissive electrodes (130, 140) are connected to each other, and reflective electrodes (110, 120) adjacent to the transmissive electrodes are connected to the transmissive electrodes (130, 140), respectively. However, the reflective electrodes (110, 120) are not connected to each other. Alignment controlling structures (111, 121, 131, 141) are provided in regions which correspond to central parts of the respective electrodes, and an alignment controlling structure (151) is provided between the reflective electrodes (110, 120) which are not connected to each other. An alignment of liquid crystals is forcibly made stable in the vicinity of the reflective electrodes by providing the alignment controlling structure (151). It is thus possible to achieve a transflective liquid crystal display device having an excellent display characteristic, such as less roughness and fewer residual images.

Abstract: A pixel electrode (1) has a frame portion (6) along the entire inner circumference of a pixel (10). The frame portion (6) is provided with a plurality of fine electrodes (7a to 7d) each disposed to form an angle of 45 degrees to the polarization axis of a linear polarizing plate. The pixel electrode (1) has a slit (8) formed in a portion other than the frame portion (6) and the fine electrodes (7a to 7d), i.e., the center portion. When the pixel electrode (1) is applied with a voltage, liquid crystal molecules (4) are oriented in four different directions along the fine electrodes (7a to 7d). Furthermore, by the effects from the frame portion (6) along the entire inner circumference of the pixel (10), the liquid crystal molecules (4) are tilted from the center of the pixel electrode (1) toward the outer circumference of an opposite electrode.

Abstract: A voltage is applied to liquid crystal which corresponds to each pixel so that the voltage is supplied to a source of a TFT (30) and is outputted from a drain of the TFT (30), a voltage at which light transmittance becomes a maximum value in the each pixel varying depending on the color displayed by the each pixel, source-drain capacitance being set to be larger in a pixel for displaying a corresponding color, in which pixel a voltage at which light transmittance becomes a maximum value is lower. This allows an effective voltage, applied to liquid crystal corresponding to each pixel during the voltage application, to vary depending on the color of the each pixel. This allows a voltage, at which transmittance in each of the pixels of the respective colors becomes a maximum value, to be applied to the liquid crystals corresponding to the pixels.

Abstract: In a multi-domain-type liquid crystal display device including a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer, a drop in transmittance is suppressed when a pixel electrode having a fish-bone structure is used. The liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention is a liquid crystal display device which has a plurality of pixels and a pair of polarizing plates (50a and 50b) arranged in crossed Nicols and which performs display in normally black mode. Each of the plurality of pixels has a liquid crystal layer (40) containing liquid crystal molecules (41) having negative dielectric anisotropy, a pixel electrode (12) and an opposite electrode (22) that face each other via the liquid crystal layer (40), and a pair of vertical alignment films (32a and 32b) respectively provided between the pixel electrode (12) and the liquid crystal layer (40) and between the opposite electrode (22) and the liquid crystal layer (40).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention includes an active matrix substrate (120) including a plurality of pixel electrodes (124) provided in a matrix of a plurality of rows by a plurality columns; a counter substrate (140) including a counter electrode (144); a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer (160); and axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions (150) each for forming a liquid crystal domain in which liquid crystal molecules (162) in the liquid crystal layer (160) are aligned in axis symmetry, the axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions (150) each being located at the center of the respective liquid crystal domain. The plurality of pixel electrodes (124) each define a pixel area. The axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions (150) are each provided in correspondence with an area between two pixel areas defined by two pixel electrodes (124) adjacent to each other.