Patent ID: 7209205

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first and a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said first and second substrates, in which liquid crystal molecules are vertically aligned with respect to said first and second substrates in a state where no voltage is applied between said first and second substrates; thin film transistors each provided on said first substrate and including a gate, a source, and a drain; gate lines connected to the gates of said thin film transistors; data lines connected to the sources of said thin film transistors; and pixel electrodes having a plurality of comb teeth, said pixel electrodes being connected to said drains of said thin film transistors, wherein some comb teeth near said gate lines extend in a first direction towards said gate lines, and some other comb teeth near said data lines extend in a second direction towards said data lines, wherein, in said pixel electrodes, an electrode is vertically formed in a shape of a backbone at a middle of a pixel, and backbone parts, which join said backbone with at least some of said comb teeth extending toward said gate lines and at least some of said comb teeth extending toward said data lines, the backbone parts extending from said backbone to be in a shape of arms of at least one of letter X and Y.