Patent ID: 6859248

Claim:
An in-plane switching type liquid crystal display device comprising: (a) a first substrate on which a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines are formed such that said gate lines are substantially perpendicular to said data lines, and on which at least one pixel electrode and at least one common electrode are alternately formed in each of pixels defined by said gate and data lines; (b) a second substrate facing said first substrate; and (c) a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said first and second substrates, wherein when a voltage is applied across said pixel electrode and said common electrode, liquid crystal existing on extensions of said data lines are caused to rotate in a plane substantially in parallel with said first substrate, both said pixel electrode and said common electrode have at least one bending point at which said pixel electrode and said common electrode bend, both said pixel electrode and said common electrode are inclined from an initial direction of liquid crystal, said pixel electrode and said common electrode are shaped in the form of “<” such that said pixel and common electrodes are not parallel with each other, and both said pixel electrode and said common electrode are designed to bend such that both an intensity and a direction of a field generated by said voltage successively vary.