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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
May. 05, 2008
Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mobara, JP;
Mitsuo Nakatani, Mobara, JP;
Hiroaki Miwa, Yokohama, JP;
Takao Tanaka, Yachimata, JP;
Sadafumi Hirai, Mobara, JP;
Shinichi Kawabe, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Sasaki, Mobara, JP;
Kazuyuki Ito, Mobara, JP;
Masahiro Ieda, Ooamishirasato, JP;
Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mobara, JP;
Mitsuo Nakatani, Mobara, JP;
Hiroaki Miwa, Yokohama, JP;
Takao Tanaka, Yachimata, JP;
Sadafumi Hirai, Mobara, JP;
Shinichi Kawabe, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Sasaki, Mobara, JP;
Kazuyuki Ito, Mobara, JP;
Masahiro Ieda, Ooamishirasato, JP;
Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Chiba, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display device is provided that includes a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with a liquid crystal therebetween, and columnar spacers that are substantially equal in height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of the pair of substrates, where the columnar spacers include a first columnar spacer which is in contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate of the pair of substrates and a second columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of that other substrate.