Patent ID: 7852420

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first insulating substrate; a second insulating substrate; a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate; a thin film transistor corresponding to a pixel on a main surface of the first insulating substrate; a base electrode disposed in a pixel area including an upper layer of the thin film transistor, the pixel area having a transmissive display part, the transmissive display part including a gate electrode overlapping area superimposed on a gate electrode of the thin film transistor and a gate electrode non-overlapping area which is not superimposed on the gate electrode; a first electrode including a coated transparent electroconductive film on the base electrode; a capacitive insulating layer including a coated insulating film on the first electrode; and a second electrode including a coated transparent electroconductive film on the capacitive insulating layer, the second electrode having a plurality of slits in which a plurality of edges of the slits are formed above a surface of the first electrode; wherein one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode, the other of the first electrode and the second electrode is a pixel electrode, and at least one of the base electrode, the commonly electrode and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; wherein the thin film transistor controls a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode applied to the liquid crystal; and wherein between the gate electrode overlapping area and the gate electrode non-overlapping area, an unevenness in an upper surface of the first electrode is less than an unevenness in a lower surface of the first electrode, and an unevenness is an upper surface of the capacitive insulating layer is less than the unevenness of the upper surface of the first electrode.