Patent ID: 7215397

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer placed between the pair of substrates and an alignment film placed on the side of at least one of the pair of substrates facing the liquid crystal layer, wherein the liquid crystal layer has a first region in which the pretilt direction of liquid crystal molecules of which the alignment is regulated with alignment regulating force of a surface of the alignment film is a first direction and a second region in which the pretilt direction is a second direction different from the first direction, and display is performed using bend alignment of the first region of the liquid crystal layer; wherein the liquid crystal layer contains a chiral agent with a predetermined spontaneous twist direction and the second region of the liquid crystal layer exhibits twist alignment in which the liquid crystal molecules are twisted in the predetermined spontaneous twist direction of the chiral agent; and TN alignment continuously connectable with bend alignment during application of a voltage equal to or higher than Vcr is trapped in the entire second region of the liquid crystal layer.