Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.

Natsuko Fujiyama

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Yasushi Kawata

Akio Murayama

Kisako Ninomiya

Kazuyuki Sunohara

Yuuzo Hisatake

Yuzo Hisatake

A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate having a pixel electrode formed of a conductor, a counter substrate having a counter electrode facing the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates and containing liquid crystal molecules set in a vertical alignment with respect to the substrates. The pixel electrode had a void space located in the conductor to provide minute domains between which different directors of the liquid crystal molecules are obtained when a potential difference is applied between the array and counter electrodes, and a bridge-wiring member interconnecting adjacent parts of the conductor in the void space, and the bride-wiring member is configured to make an electric field created in a part of the pixel area located on the bridge-wiring member weaker than that created in the minutes domains according to the potential difference.

Liquid crystal display device with a bridge wiring member with an electric field weaker than that created in minute domains above the pixel electrode

Provided is a liquid crystal display including an array substrate with first to third comb-shaped electrodes on a main surface thereof, a counter substrate with a common electrode that faces the first to third comb-shaped electrodes on a main surface thereof, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the array and counter substrates, and a color filter supported by one of the array and counter substrates and including first to third coloring layer facing the first to third comb-shaped electrodes, respectively, wherein the first comb-shaped electrode is different in shape and/or orientation from the second and third comb-shaped electrodes.

Liquid crystal display

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Okazaki, Japan

Natsuko Fujiyama