Patent ID: 7564524

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a dot area constituting a unit of display; a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal layer being interposed between the pair of substrates; a dielectric protrusion formed at a side of one substrate of the pair of substrates, the liquid crystal molecules and the dielectric protrusion satisfying the expression: ∈ ⊥ >∈ // >∈ t1 ∈ t1 being a dielectric constant of the dielectric protrusion; ∈ // being a dielectric constant of a major axis direction of the liquid crystal molecules; and ∈ ⊥ being a dielectric constant of a minor axis direction thereof; and an alignment control structure formed at a side of another substrate of the pair of substrates, the alignment control structure being provided at a position so as not to overlap with the dielectric protrusion in a plan view.