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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Chia Hsuan Tai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cheng Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Da Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sang Un Choi, San Jose, CA (US);
Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tae Woon Cha, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yeon Sik Ham, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yuan Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhibing Ge, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hossein Nemati, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A liquid crystal display may have main column spacers and subspacer column spacers. The column spacers may have cross shapes formed from overlapping perpendicular rectangular column spacer portions respectively located on a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. The column spacers may have a hybrid configuration in which some of the rectangular portions on the thin-film transistor layer extend vertically and some extend horizontally. Column spacers may be formed from planarization layer material, may be formed from locally thickened portions of a planarization layer, and may have circular shapes.