Patent ID: 6903796

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of substrates including a first substrate having pixel electrodes, active devices and an alignment film, and a second substrate having an opposing electrode and an alignment film; and a liquid crystal layer containing nematic liquid crystal molecules and a cured-product formed three-dimensionally of a composition having a liquid crystal skeletal structure, and sandwiched between the pair of substrates; wherein deformation of the liquid crystal layer is at least spray deformation or bend deformation and, the concentration of the composition is determined so as to satisfy the following relation when a mean value of an angle described between the liquid crystal skeletal structure and the first substrate in a polar angle direction is α, pre-tilt angles of the liquid crystal molecules on interfaces of the first and second substrates are β 1 and β 2 , respectively, and a mean value of an angle between the liquid crystal molecules and the first substrate is θ: at the time of non-application of a voltage; when dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal molecules is negative, α<θ<(β 1 +β 2 )/2; and when dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal molecules is positive, (β 1 +β 2 )/2<θ<α.