Patent ID: 8289488

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels, comprising: a first substrate having a thin film transistor; a second substrate placed opposite to the first substrate; liquid crystals filled between the first substrate and the second substrate; alignment layers respectively placed on surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate in contact with the liquid crystals and having an alignment direction inclined at an inclination angle Î± where 0Â°<Î±<90Â° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line connected to a gate electrode of the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode placed in each of the plurality of pixels and connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode having a slit for generating a fringe electric field to the liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and a polarizing plate placed in the second substrate on a side opposite to the first substrate and having an absorption axis set in the alignment direction or a perpendicular direction to the alignment direction, wherein the slit comprises: a first slit placed in each of the plurality of pixels that extends in the alignment direction or the perpendicular direction to the alignment direction, a plurality of second slits placed in the first region on the one side of the first slit and inclined at an angle Î¸ to a given direction with respect to a longitudinal direction of the first slit, and a plurality of third slits placed in the second region on the other side of the first slit opposite to the first region and inclined at the angle Î¸ to a direction opposite to the given direction with respect to the longitudinal direction of the first slit, wherein the pixel electrode and the common electrode are placed on the first substrate and the angle Î¸ is in a range of 1Â° to 20Â°.