Patent ID: 7102714

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device of a vertical alignment mode in which a liquid crystal layer is interposed between a pair of substrates and in which a transmissive display region for transmissive display and a reflective display region for reflective display are provided within a single dot region, comprising: the liquid crystal layer being formed of liquid crystal with a negative dielectric anisotropy; a thickness-adjusting layer of the liquid crystal layer which makes the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective display region thinner than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display region being provided in at least the reflective display region between at least one of the pair of substrates and the liquid crystal layer; and the thickness-adjusting layer of the liquid crystal layer having an inclined plane in the vicinity of the boundary between the reflective display region and the transmissive display region, and electrodes being provided on the inner sides of each of the pair of substrates respectively, with an opening being provided at a position corresponding to the inclined plane of the thickness-adjusting layer of the liquid crystal layer in the electrode on the substrate opposite to the side where the thickness-adjusting layer of the liquid crystal layer is provided, the opening controlling an alignment direction of the liquid crystal.