| US 7,508,475 B2 | ||
| Liquid crystal display device | ||
| Yasushi Kawata, Ageo (Japan); Akio Murayama, Fukaya (Japan); Masaki Obi, Ageo (Japan); Kisako Ninomiya, Fukaya (Japan); and Norihiro Yoshida, Kumagaya (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 09, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/621,265. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-008912 (JP), filed on Jan. 17, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0165166 A1, Jul. 19, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G02F 1/1337 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 349—129 [349/139; 349/145] | 4 Claims |
| 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a first substrate including a first insulation substrate, and a plurality of rectangular pixel electrodes provided in a matrix
on the first insulation substrate and elongated in a first direction;
a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and including a second insulation substrate, a counter electrode provided
on the second insulation substrate and corresponding to the pixel electrodes, and a plurality of projections provided on the
counter electrode and elongated in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and
a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates,
each of the pixel electrodes being divided at a position corresponding to a corresponding one of the projections, and having
a first rectangular electrode region and a second rectangular electrode region shifted from each other in the second direction,
patterns of each pair of adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes, which are adjacent in the second direction, being mirror patterns
with respect to a boundary of said each pair,
said each pair having portions spaced by a first distance and portions spaced by a second distance.
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