Liquid crystal display having two or more spacings between electrodes
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMitsuaki Hirata, Akihiro Nammatsu, Kei Oyobe, Shigeaki Mizushima, Noriko Watanabe, Shingo Jogan
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Abstract
A liquid crystal display is described which includes a pair of transparent substrates disposed opposite each other sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween, with a transparent electrode and an alignment film formed on the liquid crystal layer side of each of the substrates. The transparent electrodes disposed opposite each other in pairs are at two or more different spacings at least within one display area of a pixel.
Claims19
A liquid crystal display comprising a pair of transparent substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a plurality of pixels with electrodes thereof provided on a side of each of said substrates that faces said liquid crystal layer, wherein a line-patterned insulating film is formed on at least one of said substrates in such a manner as to cover at least a part of a region corresponding to each of said pixels between said electrodes and said liquid crystal layer, said line-patterned insulating film being formed so that an average direction of directions taken over a longitudinal length of each individual line crosses substantially at right angles with an average direction of orienting directions of liquid crystal molecules projected on said substrate.
A liquid crystal display comprising a pair of wiring substrates disposed opposite each other sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween, each of said substrates having a plurality of electrodes formed on a liquid crystal layer side thereof, each pair of opposing electrodes on said substrates forming a pixel, wherein one or more line-patterned low-permittivity insulating films are formed per pixel on each of said electrodes on at least one of said substrates, each of said insulating films extending longitudinally in a direction perpendicular to an average orienting direction of liquid crystal molecules projected on said substrate, and each region forming one pixel on one substrate is made larger than a corresponding region forming one pixel on the other substrate by an arbitrary value in directions parallel to said average orienting direction, said opposing electrodes being displaced relative to each other in two directions parallel to said average orienting direction.
A liquid crystal display according to claim 17, wherein said line-patterned low-permittivity insulating films are formed between said liquid crystal layer and said pixels on both of said substrates, said insulating films on one substrate being displaced from said insulating films on the other substrate in such a manner that openings on said one substrate are positioned alternately between openings on said other substrate along directions parallel to said orienting direction.
A liquid crystal display according to claim 17, wherein a width of each of said line-patterned low-permittivity insulating films is not smaller than a spacing between said pair of wiring substrates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.