Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kaori Saitoh

Yasutoshi Tasaka

Yasuyoshi Kaise

Yuki Kawashima

Yoshimizu Moriya

Noboru Nakanishi

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.

Liquid crystal display device

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

Liquid crystal display element and liquid crystal display device

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.

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Kaori Saitoh