Patent ID: 7652739

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus having a liquid crystal cell comprising: a pair of substrates facing each other; a common electrode which is located at one of said pair of substrates and covered with a first orientation film; a plurality of pixel electrodes which are disposed in a matrix over the other of said pair of substrates, and covered with a second orientation film; a switching device connected to each pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal which is sealed between said first and second orientation films and said pair of substrates, wherein a width of a pixel electrode corresponding to a longitudinal direction of the reverse tilt domain is set to become a narrower than the width of a pixel electrode corresponding to a portion of the pixel in which no reverse tilt domain is formed, and further wherein each of the plurality of pixel electrodes has a first region with a first width that is substantially constant, a second region wherein the width of the pixel electrode decreases from the width of the first region at a generally constant rate over the entire second region, and a third region extending from the second region at a side of the second region opposite the first region having a second width that is substantially constant and which is smaller than the first width, and further wherein the first region is a widest portion of the pixel electrode, the width of the pixel electrode being tapered from the first region to the third region through the intermediate second region.