Patent ID: 8319928

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device including liquid crystal filled between a first substrate having a thin film transistor and a second substrate placed opposite to the first substrate, comprising: a gate line placed in the same layer as a gate electrode of the thin film transistor on the first substrate; a gate insulating layer placed on the gate line; a source line placed in the same layer as a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor and crossing the gate line with the gate insulating layer interposed therebetween; a pixel electrode placed at least partly directly over or under the drain electrode so as to directly overlap the drain electrode; an interlayer insulating layer to cover the pixel electrode; and a counter electrode placed on the interlayer insulating layer and having a plurality of slits to generate a fringe electric field with the pixel electrode, wherein the counter electrode is placed to overlap the source line in a given area, is placed to overlap at least a portion of the gate line to connect to a counter electrode of an adjacent pixel across the gate line, and is placed so as to not overlap the gate line in an area where the source line and the gate line overlap, the source line includes two directions at given inclination angles, the two directions being symmetric about an axis parallel to the gate line, the plurality of slits include two directions substantially parallel to the two directions included in the source line, and the pixel electrode is plate shaped and chevron shaped including two directions at given inclination angles, the two directions included in the pixel electrode being symmetric about an axis parallel to the gate line.