In a liquid crystal display device of the twisted nematic type comprising upper and lower substrates, upper and lower transparent electrodes formed on the inner surfaces of respective substrates, a liquid crystal interposed between the upper and lower electrodes with its molecules oriented in a twisted arrangement, each of the upper and lower electrodes is constituted by a plurality of electrode segments, and the upper electrode segments are displaced toward lower edge of the display with respect to the corresponding lower electrode segments.

Within a matrix display type liquid crystal display having a first family of electrodes aligned in one direction at least the viewing side of which is made of transparent conducting material, a second family of electrodes aligned in a different direction crossed with said one direction, and a liquid crystal material between the both families of the electrodes, a respective one of the electrodes of at least one family of said both electrode families is made up of a picture element electrode and a wiring electrode for connecting the picture element electrodes and an extension electrode connected to the wiring electrode and an electrode width at a portion thereof other than a picture element area wider than the picture element are for the purpose of reducing the resistance of the wiring electrode.

A liquid crystal display device having a transparent non-conductive front substrate and a rear non-conductive substrate between which is sandwiched a liquid crystal material. The front substrate includes at least one transparent conductive electrode with leads extending therefrom for connection thereto. The rear substrate includes a cooperating electrode assembly. Activating electrical voltage is applied between a selected front electrode and the rear electrode to create an electric field which activates the liquid crystal material. When the liquid crystal material is activated, it either disperses and changes the transmission characteristics of the liquid or it alters its plane of polarization. In either event the phenomenon is used to provide a display. The electrodes are shaped so that the widths of the rear electrodes are less than the front electrodes and no portion of the leads connected thereto overlap with the display. Thus, there can be electrode misalignment without changing the width of the display, the material under the leads is not activated, and the leads, or portions thereof, are not displayed.

In the lead electrodes which connect to the display electrodes of a liquid crystal display device having lead electrodes which are of extremely narrow width and are spaced very closely together, the resistance of each lead electrode is reduced by means of a multi-layer structure of relatively low resistance, and leakage current is prevented from flowing between adjacent lead electrodes by providing a transparent insulating layer over and between the lead electrodes, thereby eliminating the deleterious effects upon display appearance of a high lead electrode resistance and leakage currents between lead electrodes.

A liquid crystal display for reflection operation with a guest-host liquid crystal layer disposed between two cell plates and respective front and rear electrodes, and with a diffusely divergent reflector integrated in the interior of the cell, at least the front side of the cell plate and the front electrode being transparent. The rear electrode and its supply comprise thick layers, and the reflector consists of metal parts insulated against one another and applied to the rear electrode and to the inner surface of the rear cell plate. Also disclosed is a method of producing a liquid crystal display including the steps of printing in a first screen printing process a thick layer having metal parts and a binder and having the configuration of the back electrode and its supply line on the inner surface of the rear cell plate, applying in the subsequent visual region in a second screen printing process a reflector layer with mutually insulated metal parts and a binder to the thick layer and to the inner face of the rear cell plate, printing in a third screen printing process a glass solder impression on the edges of the inner surface of the rear cell plate, mounting a front cell plate having a transparent front electrode disposed on its inner face on the glass solder impression, glass soldering the individual layers formed by the first, second and third printing processes and the front cell plate, and curing the individual layers and the front cell plate.