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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1998
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The reflective liquid crystal display device of this invention includes: a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a plurality of pixel electrodes having a delta arrangement formed on one of the pair of substrates; a plurality of signal lines formed on the one of the pair of substrates, the signal lines having bent portions; a plurality of scanning lines formed on the one of the pair of substrates, the plurality of scanning lines and signal lines being formed to run along peripheries of the plurality of pixel electrodes so as to cross each other; and a plurality of thin film transistors electrically connected to the plurality of signal lines for controlling potentials of the pixel electrodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of thin film transistors is formed at a position where the distance between two adjacent signal lines of the plurality of signal lines is reduced by the bent portion of at least one of the two adjacent signal lines.