Patent ID: 8958037
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display element comprising: two substrates; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the two substrates; and at least two insulating layers having respective different dielectric constants, the liquid crystal display element being a vertical alignment type liquid crystal display element which controls an orientation of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer by use of a transverse electric field so as to carry out display, the at least two insulating layers being provided, within a pixel in a planar view, on or above at least one of the two substrates so that at least two regions which differ in shapes of equipotential lines are formed in the pixel due to generation of the transverse electric field; an electrode being provided in a pattern of teeth of a comb, within the pixel in the planar view, on or above one of the two substrates, the transverse electric field being generated between two adjacent teeth of the electrode, the pixel having at least two tooth combinations each of which corresponds to two adjacent teeth, the at least two insulating layers being provided, on or above at least one of the two substrates, to a region corresponding in the planar view to a first one of the two tooth combinations and to a region corresponding in the planar view to a second one of the two tooth combinations, respectively, the at least two insulating layers having respective different electric constants.