Liquid crystal display device having a pixel electrode with electrode branches and slits

A liquid crystal display device comprising:

• first and second substrates;
• a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first and second substrates;
• a plurality of pixel regions each surrounded by a scanning line and a signal line crossing the scanning line;
• a counter electrode arranged on the first substrate;
• a pixel electrode in one of the pixel regions arranged on the first substrate, the pixel electrode including
• a plurality of electrode branches each having ends opposed to each other, the ends including a first branch end and a second branch end, the electrode branches being arranged in a longitudinal direction of the scanning line,
• a plurality of slits formed between the electrode branches, the slits each having a closed shape,
• a first connection portion connecting the first branch ends,
• a second connection portion connecting the second branch ends and being opposed to the first connection portion in a longitudinal direction of the pixel electrode, and
• a protrusion having a convex shape and protruding from one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion, in the longitudinal direction of the scanning line,
• wherein at least one of the slits extends in a longitudinal direction of the signal line, crossing the longitudinal direction of the scanning line,
• the protrusion overlaps the signal line and a part of the scanning line, the part surrounding the one of the pixel region, and does not overlap a part of the scanning line, the part surrounding another one of the pixel regions adjacent to the one of the pixel regions in the longitudinal direction of the scanning line,
• the pixel electrode is connected to a thin film transistor,
• the protrusion does not overlap the thin film transistor,
• the electrode branches includes an outermost electrode branch that is outermost among the electrode branches and is located nearest to the protrusion in the longitudinal direction of the scanning line, among the electrode branches, and
• the protrusion protrudes
• from an area of the one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the area being connected to an end of the outermost electrode branch,
• toward an outside of the one of the pixel regions in the longitudinal direction of the scanning line, such that an outermost end of the protrusion in the longitudinal direction of the scanning line is located outside an entirety of the electrode branches.