Patent ID: 7016006

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, comprising: a first insulating substrate; a first wire formed on the first substrate; a second wire formed on the first substrate, insulated with, and intersecting the first wire; a pixel electrode formed on each of a plurality of pixel areas defined by the intersection of the first wire and the second wire and having a plurality of small parts and a connecting portion for connecting the plurality of small parts; a thin film transistor connected to the first wire, the second wire and the pixel electrode; a second insulating substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; and a common electrode formed on the second substrate and having a dividing means dividing the plurality of small parts of the pixel electrode into a plurality of small domains and having a wire aperture overlapping the second wire, wherein the wire aperture and the dividing means each have a non-zero length and a non-zero width, the length direction of the wire aperture is different from the length direction of the dividing means, and the whole length of the wire aperture overlaps the second wire.