Liquid crystal display device having shaped openings

A liquid crystal display device comprising, in order:

• a first substrate;
• a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules;
• and
• a second substrate, wherein:
• the first substrate includes a first electrode, a second electrode closer to the liquid crystal layer than the first electrode is, and an insulating film between the first electrode and the second electrode;
• the first electrode is provided for each pixel;
• the second electrode is provided with openings including a first opening and a second opening adjacent to each other;
• the first opening and the second opening are independent of each other and point-symmetrical to each other, and surrounded by the second electrode;
• the first opening and the second opening each have a shape including curved portions that expand an opening periphery outward at respective ends of each of the first and second openings in a longitudinal direction of the openings, and paired protruding portions that allow the opening periphery to protrude partially in a lateral direction of the openings in a middle of the longitudinal direction:
• the first opening and the second opening are arranged in line in a longitudinal direction of the first electrode:
• lengths of the first opening and the second opening along the longitudinal direction of the first electrode are longer than widths of the first opening and the second opening along a lateral direction of the first electrode;
• the liquid crystal molecules are aligned parallel to the first substrate in a no-voltage-applied state where no voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode;
• and
• a distance X is 1 μm <X ≤5 μm between a vertex A of a curved portion closer to the second opening between the curved portions of the first opening and a vertex B of a curved portion closer to the first opening between the curved portions of the second opening.