Patent ID: 8553191

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising a TFT substrate, a counter substrate and liquid crystal sandwiched between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate, wherein a gate electrode, a gate insulating film and a semiconductor layer are formed on the TFT substrate in this order, and a drain electrode and a source electrode are formed on the semiconductor layer, wherein a pixel electrode formed from ITO is laid on the gate insulating film, wherein an insulating film is overlaid on the pixel electrode while a common electrode including a slit and formed from ITO is overlaid on the insulating film, wherein the pixel electrode is divided into a plurality of segments, each of which is connected to the source electrode, wherein the segment of the pixel electrode is overlapped with the slit of the common electrode, and wherein the source electrode is an interdigital electrode and the segment of the pixel electrode is in overlapping connection with digit portion of the source electrode.