Patent ID: 8139187

Claim:
A transflective liquid crystal device, comprising: a pixel electrode on a first substrate with a plurality of first openings for forming multi-domains, the plurality of first openings within a reflective part and a transmitting part of a pixel region, and a plurality of second openings for inducing a fringe field, the plurality of second openings within the reflective part of the pixel region excluding the transmitting part of a pixel region; a reflective sheet within only the reflective part of the pixel region; a common electrode on a second substrate facing the first substrate, the common electrode having a plurality of third openings within the reflective part of the common electrode for inducing a fringe field; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, wherein the reflective and transmitting parts have the same cell gap, and the transmitting part has the operation properties of a retardation value (Δnd)=λ/2 and the reflective part has the operation properties of retardation value (Δnd)=λ/4 by the fringe field, wherein the Δn is a refracted index of the liquid crystal layer, and the n is a cell gap between the first and second substrates.