Patent ID: 8243243

Claim:
A display device: a pair of opposing substrates; a common electrode carried on one of the substrates; a plurality of pixel electrodes also carried on the one substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, wherein each of said pixel electrodes comprises (a) a plurality of electrode portions disposed in parallel with one another, each of the electrode portions having a single bend at approximately a central portion thereof relative to an extension direction thereby imparting a V-shape to each of the electrode portions, (b) respective end edge bridges connecting the electrode portions to one another at respective end portions of the electrode portions, each of the electrode portions having two end portions disposed respectively about the central portion thereof, and the respective end edge bridges connecting the electrode portions to one another at both respective end portions of the electrode portions, and (c) a central bridge portion connecting the electrode portions to one another at the bending portions, the central bridge portion disposed in parallel with the end edge bridges, the central bridge portion having a plurality of lateral edges at which the plurality of electrode portions connect to the central bridge portion, the lateral edges of the central bridge portion being angled relative to a direction along which the central bridge portion extends so that each of the electrode portions connects to a respective lateral edge of the central bridge portion at approximately a right angle.