Patent ID: 8830434

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a thin film transistor substrate; a counter substrate which is arranged to face the thin film transistor substrate in an opposed manner; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the thin film transistor substrate and the counter substrate; wherein the thin film transistor substrate includes a first electrode and a second electrode for applying an electric field in a substrate in-plane direction; wherein the first electrode includes a plurality of strip portions which extend in a predetermined direction; wherein a chiral dopant which imparts rotation in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of liquid crystal induced by an electric field applied between the strip portions and the second electrode is added to the liquid crystal layer; wherein the first electrode further includes bent portions which are bent from the strip portions; wherein a direction of initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is inclined by an angle θ (0°<θ<90°) with reference to a first edge which extends in the predetermined direction, the first edge being included in each of the strip portions; wherein each of the bent portions has a second edge inclined by an angle φ (0°<φ<90°) with reference to the first edge of each of the strip portions; and wherein the angle φ that the second edges are inclined with reference to the first edges is set larger than the angle θ that the initial alignment direction is inclined with reference to the first edges.