Patent ID: 9383614
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G02F

Claim Text:
1. A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other, comprising: when a substrate in-plane direction corresponding to a screen including a plurality of pixels is defined as first and second directions and a perpendicular direction is defined as a third direction, an electrode layer which has an upper electrode and a lower electrode opposed to each other and in which a plurality of slits extending in the first direction are formed in the upper electrode or the lower electrode and an opening portion in the substrate in-plane direction including the plurality of slits when seen in a plan view is formed; and a first light-shielding film portion extending in the first direction and provided in the first or second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer is provided on the electrode layer in the third direction, an alignment film is provided for the liquid crystal layer, the alignment film orients liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in a first orientation direction approximately parallel to the first direction in an initial orientation, at least some of the plurality of slits of each pixel have one side of a slit and an other side of the slit as two sides of the slit opposed in a width direction corresponding to the second direction and the two sides of the slit have different angles with respect to the first direction, the one side of the slit has a first angle with respect to the first direction and the other side of the slit has a second angle with respect to the first direction, and for each pixel, a region including a region outside an end of the opening portion near at least one pixel boundary in the second direction and a region of at least a part of an outermost slit of the plurality of slits in the second direction is concealed by the first light-shielding film portion overlapped in the third direction.