Patent ID: 7773184

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of substrates; a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed on one of the substrates of the pair of substrates; a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region being defined by a respective region surrounded by a corresponding pair of the drain signal lines and a corresponding pair of gate signal lines, each pixel region having a plurality of switching elements, a plurality of pixel electrodes that is equal in number of pixel electrodes to a number of switching elements of the plurality of switching elements, a conductive layer, and a counter electrode, each pixel region having a plurality sub-pixel regions that each include a respective switching element and a respective pixel electrode of the pixel region, wherein the switching elements, the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode of each pixel region are formed on the same substrate and the counter electrode is overlapped by all the pixel electrodes of the pixel region through a respective insulating layer of the pixel region, and wherein the conductive layer of each pixel region is formed in parallel with the drain signal lines and arranged to a boundary portion between the respective pixel electrodes of the sub-pixel regions of the pixel region, and the conductive layer of each pixel region is electrically connected to the counter electrode of the pixel region, wherein a counter voltage signal line of each pixel region is formed and contacted in the counter electrode of the pixel region, and the conductive layer of each pixel region is formed perpendicular to and as an extending portion of the counter voltage signal line of the pixel region.