Patent ID: 6064460
Filing Date: 2000-05-16
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device comprising:a liquid crystal composition layer having twistable liquid crystal molecules;a first substrate and a second substrate having said liquid crystal composition layer disposed therebetween; anda video signal line formed between a face of said first substrate and a face of said liquid crystal composition layer, at least one pixel electrode and at least one counter electrode formed at each of pixels adjoining said video signal line,said at least one pixel electrode and said at least one counter electrode being formed on one of said first substrate and said second substrate for generating an electric field having a component predominately in parallel with said one of said first substrate and said second substrate,wherein one of said counter electrodes of the individual pixels is positioned adjacent to of said video signal line, and the one of said counter electrodes has a width which is at least equal to one half of the width of said video signal line.