Patent ID: 8237893
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a liquid crystal panel having two substrates holding a liquid crystal layer in-between and two polarizing plates placed outside the two substrates; and a light source unit for emitting light toward the liquid crystal panel, wherein a liquid crystal molecule in the liquid crystal layer is rotated by applying an electric field in a direction of a plane in parallel to the two substrates, the polarizing plate placed on the light source unit side has a multiple polarizer layer formed thereon, the multiple polarizer layer including a first polarizer layer having a higher polarization degree with respect to a light incoming from a forward direction than a polarization degree with respect to a light incoming from a oblique direction and a second polarizer layer having a higher polarization degree with respect to a light incoming from a oblique direction than a polarization degree with respect to a light incoming from a forward direction is formed on, and an average elastic constant of a splay elastic constant K