Liquid crystal display panel with alignment division and smaller twist angle

Claim 1

A liquid crystal display panel comprising: a pair of substrates having alignment films, respectively; a liquid crystal held between said pair of substrates, the liquid crystal having a layer thickness (d) and an anisotropy of the refractive index (Δn); a polarizer and an analyzer arranged outside said substrates, respectively; the alignment films of said pair of substrates being held in such an alignment that liquid crystal molecules twist from one substrate to the other substrate through a predetermined twist angle and the alignment films are divided into minute regions (A and B) so that when a voltage is applied to said liquid crystal, liquid crystal molecules located intermediately between said substrates in one of the regions are tilted with respect to one of the substrates toward one direction and liquid crystal molecules located intermediately between said substrates in other region are tilted with respect to said one of the substrates toward a direction opposite to said one direction, said liquid crystal molecules in said other region; the twist angle of the liquid crystal being greater than zero but less than 90 degrees; and the product (Δnd) of the anisotropy of the refractive index (Δn) and the layer thickness (d) of the liquid crystal being greater than 0 μm and less than approximately 0.5 μm and ensuring that a linearly polarized light incident onto the liquid crystal rotates approximately 90 degrees before the light emerges from the liquid crystal.