Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yasuhiro Ohno

Katsufumi Ohmuro

Takahiro Sasaki

Kunihiro Tashiro

Kazutaka Hanaoka

Tetsuya Fujikawa

Norio Sugiura

Takashi Takagi

Tomonori Tanose

Kengo Kanii

Shota Makimoto

Jin Hirosawa

Isao Tsushima

The technology presented herein has a feature of providing a liquid crystal display device of an excellent viewing angle characteristic and high brightness, including: liquid crystals containing polymerizable monomers between a first substrate with a pixel electrode having micro slits and a second substrate facing the first substrate; wherein the monomers are polymerizable with voltage applied to the liquid crystals; and an alignment orientation of the liquid crystals is controllable to a direction of extending the micro slit, wherein the pixel electrode includes: a direct coupling part electrically connected to a switching element; a capacitive coupling part electrically insulated from the switching element, and a space between the direct and capacitive coupling parts, wherein directions in which the micro slits are extended along the direct and capacitive coupling parts are orthogonal to each other.

Liquid crystal display device

The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device used for a display unit of electronic equipment, and an object is to provide a liquid crystal display of a high quality without shading in the display that is caused by deviation in the positions of patterns. Compensation electrodes are formed on the regions across which the data bus lines and the pixel electrodes are opposed to each other, the compensation electrodes being formed simultaneously with the data bus lines by using the same exposing mask. The compensation electrodes are electrically connected to the pixel electrode through the contact holes, and assumes the same potential as the one applied to the pixel electrode.

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Tottori, Japan

Yasuhiro Ohno