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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1999
Noboru Kashimoto, Fukaya, JP;
Hisaaki Hayashi, Hyogo-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A conductor layer is formed on a glass substrate of a liquid-crystal display device, and a resist layer is formed on the conductor layer. The resist layer is dividedly exposed into a plurality of divided regions. Then the conductor layer is etched through the resist layer and patterned. At the time of the division exposure, a boundary line of each of the respective divided regions is formed in a zigzag shape and engaged with a boundary line of another adjacent one of the divided regions. The zigzag-shaped boundary line of each divided region has such a pattern as to extend into another diagonally opposed one of the divided regions at a cross-shaped region where a vertical boundary line horizontally dividing the divided regions and a horizontal boundary line vertically dividing the divided regions intersect at right angles.