| US 7,495,739 B2 | ||
| Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the liquid crystal display | ||
| Shinichi Hirato, Mie (Japan); Naoshi Yamada, Mie (Japan); and Hidetomo Miyake, Mie (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/561,979 PCT Filed Jun. 23, 2004, PCT No. PCT/IB2004/002536 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 19, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/006067, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 20, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-178036 (JP), filed on Jun. 23, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0238692 A1, Oct. 26, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G02F 1/1339 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 349—155 [349/156; 349/157] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
liquid crystal held between a pair of substrates and spacers for keeping a gap between the substrates of the pair provided
between the substrates,
wherein each of the spacers includes a first layer laminated over one of the substrates and a second layer disposed over the
first layer to cross the first layer in a plan view; and
wherein a first substrate of the pair of substrates is an active substrate and a second substrate of the pair of substrates
is a counter substrate, and wherein the first and second layers included in each of the spacers are formed on the counter
substrate over at least a part of a black matrix layer so that portions of the first and second layers, in at least a part
of areas where the first and second layers do not overlap, are substantially coplanar.
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