Patent ID: 8013961

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a number of data lines; gate lines formed so as to cross said number of data lines; a number of switching elements formed in locations where said number of data lines and said number of gate lines cross; a reflection area and a transmission area formed within each pixel; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between first and second substrates; a common electrode placed between said first substrate and said liquid crystal layer; and a pixel electrode placed between said second substrate and said liquid crystal layer, characterized in that: said common electrode has slits or protrusions, said data lines overlap the slits in said common electrode or protrusions of said common electrode in a direction normal to a surface of said first substrate, the slits in said common electrode or the protrusion of said common electrode are bent, and said data lines are bent and are provided so as to cross a number of adjacent pixels.