Patent ID: 7259816
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a liquid crystal layer that includes liquid crystal having a negative dielectric anisotropy and that is interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate; a transmissive display region and a reflective display region provided in each dot region of the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode provided on the first substrate; a second electrode provided on the second substrate and facing the first substrate; a liquid-crystal-layer thickness-adjusting layer that is formed in the reflective display region of the first substrate so that a thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective display region is smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display region; an electrode slit that is formed by cutting a portion of the first electrodes and that controls the tilting direction of a liquid crystal molecule of the liquid crystal layer, the electrode slit being formed on the liquid-crystal-layer thickness-adjusting layer; a convex portion that protrudes from a surface of a liquid crystal layer side of the first substrate and that controls the tilting direction of the liquid crystal molecules; and wherein both the electrode slit and the convex portion are formed on the first substrate, the electrode slit is formed in the reflective display region, and the convex portion is formed in the transmissive display region, another electrode slit or another convex portion being further formed on the second substrate between a first region overlapping the electrode slit and a second region overlapping the convex portion, and the other electrode slit or the other convex portion overlapping a boundary of the reflective display region and the transmissive region.