Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region on a first substrate, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a first protrusion and a second protrusion formed on the first substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor in the pixel region, a first patterned spacer and a second patterned spacer formed on a second substrate facing the first substrate, wherein the first patterned spacer corresponds to the first protrusion, and the second patterned spacer corresponds to the second protrusion.

Abstract: In a character type vertical alignment type liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates opposing each other, a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes provided at an inner side of the first substrate, a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes provided at an inner side of the second substrate, and a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a wall structure is provided between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: The present application relates to a liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, thin film transistors connected to the gate and data lines, a barrier rib formed on the data lines, and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors. The thin film transistors can be formed using a colored organic film that has an optical density in a range of 1 to 3. Color filters fill the regions surrounded by the barrier rib. Pixel electrodes can be formed on the color filters. A common electrode can be formed on the second substrate facing the first substrate. A liquid crystal layer can be situated between the first and second substrates, which are spaced apart at a predetermined distance by spacers.

Abstract: A display panel and an electro-optical device thereof are provided. The display panel comprises a pair of substrates, at least one data line, at least three common lines, at least one scan line, at least one switch element, a common electrode, and a display media layer. The pair of substrates comprises a first substrate and a second substrate. The data line and the three common lines are formed on the first substrate. The data line and the common lines interlace to form a plurality of areas. Each of the areas comprises an electrode. The electrodes are connected to each other to form a pixel electrode. The scan line is formed on the first substrate and under an electrode of one of the areas. The switch element is formed under an electrode of one of the areas, and comprises a source connected to the pixel electrode, a drain connected to the data line, and a gate\ connected to the scan line. The common electrode is formed on the second substrate, with a display media layer disposed between the two substrates.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, and has a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, and the liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second electrodes. The first substrate has a shading region in gaps between the plurality of pixels, and a wall structure is placed regularly on the surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer in the shading region. A color filter layer of the second substrate has at least one hole formed at a predetermined position in each pixel.

Abstract: A brighter active matrix type liquid crystal electro-optical device with a higher contrast, yet having a wider visual angle is realized, said liquid crystal electro-optical device comprises a liquid crystal layer and means for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer in the direction parallel to the substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer comprises a liquid crystal material dispersed in a polymer material. Also a liquid crystal electro-optical device comprising a liquid crystal layer disposed on a substrate is included, wherein the transmission mode or the dispersion mode of an incident light is selected by an electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer in the direction parallel to the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A nano-liquid crystal on silicon (nano-LCoS) chip having carbon nanotube (CNT) pillars that are grown on a glass substrate thereof. As the heights of the CNT pillars are uniform, the CNT pillars can function as spacers providing a uniform cell gap between the glass substrate and a silicon chip of the nano-LCoS chip. Also, being excellent electrical conductors, CNT pillars can form a part of the electrical connection between an outside voltage source and the indium tin oxide (ITO) layer formed on the glass substrate. The nano-LCoS chip includes nano-LCoS alignment keys that are formed in the silicon chip and connected to the CNT pillars. By applying the same voltage to the ITO layer and keys, a portion of the liquid crystal activated by the keys become transparent fiduciary marks for optical alignment of nano-LCoS chips.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal provided between a first layer and a second layer. The first layer and the second layer may be in a substantially parallel direction to each another. Spacers may be provided in the liquid crystal to keep the first layer and the second layer spaced apart from each other. Electrode layers may include structural elements operable to prevent the spacers from moving through the liquid crystal in the substantially parallel direction. The display may include a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer having one or more gaps defining an electrode structure including electrodes to control the display.

Abstract: An apparatus for printing bead spacers at selected locations on an LCD substrate includes a cylindrical transfer roller and a printing plate having a plurality of semispherical recesses respectively located at positions corresponding to the selected locations of the spacers on the LCD substrate. A volume of an ink containing the spacers is loaded into each of the recesses, and the substrate is translated tangentially relative to the rotating transfer roller such that the volumes of ink are transferred onto the roller. A support plate having the LCD substrate mounted thereon is then translated tangentially relative to the roller such that the volumes of ink on the roller are transferred onto the surface of the LCD substrate at the selected locations. The apparatus enables the spacers to be printed onto the LCD substrate accurately and inexpensively, and prevents the spacers from being inadvertently printed in double layers.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: a thin film transistor array substrate; a color filter array substrate opposite the thin film transistor array substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter array substrate, wherein the color filter array substrate includes: a black matrix partitioning sub pixels; a plurality of color filters at respective sub pixels; and a spacer-integrated planarizing layer arranged on the color filters and the black matrix, wherein the spacer-integrated planarizing layer includes a planarized surface at each of the sub pixels and a spacer pattern integrated with the planarized surface and protruding at the black matrix to maintain a cell gap between the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter array substrate, wherein the spacer-integrated planarizing layer includes a liquid crystalline material.

Abstract: A display device includes the following elements. A display has a display area and includes an electro-optic layer and a light-reflecting layer reflecting light emitted from the electro-optic layer to the viewing side of the display device, the light-reflecting layer being arranged in the display area. A plate-shaped exterior has a frame area including a portion located outside the periphery of the display. An antireflective plate continuously covers both of the display area and the frame area. The antireflective plate prevents external light, which enters the viewing side of the display device and is reflected by the light-reflecting layer or the frame area, from emerging on the viewing side.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes a first panel and a second panel facing each other, a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second panels, and a plurality of column spacers each having a pillar and a base supporting the pillar. The width of the pillar is less than that of the base portion.

Abstract: An electro-optical device typified by an active matrix type liquid crystal display device, is manufactured by cutting a rubbing process, and in addition, a reduction in the manufacturing cost and an improvement in the yield are realized by reducing the number of process steps to manufacture a TFT. By forming a pixel TFT portion having a reverse stagger type n-channel TFT, and a storage capacitor, by performing three photolithography steps using three photomasks, and in addition, by having a uniform cell gap by forming wall-like spacers by performing one photolithography step, without performing a rubbing process, a multi-domain perpendicular orientation type liquid crystal display device having a wide viewing angle display, and in which a switching direction of the liquid crystal molecules is controlled, can be realized.

Abstract: A system for displaying images is disclosed. A display device comprises a first substrate comprising a plurality of pixels, each comprising RGB transparent sub-pixel regions. A second substrate comprises RGB regions opposite the first substrate, wherein the transparent sub-pixel regions respectively correspond to the three major color regions. A light blocking layer is disposed in one of the transparent sub-pixel regions of the first substrate. A photo spacer corresponding to the light blocking layer is formed, supporting the opposite first and second substrates.

Abstract: A color filter substrate includes: an insulating transparent substrate; a color filter layer provided on the insulating transparent substrate, including a plurality of colored layers and constituting an in-screen display region; and an in-screen frame region defined around the in-screen display region. A light-blocking layer is provided in the in-screen frame region to cover the insulating transparent substrate. A first spacer part and a second spacer part are formed in the in-screen frame region and the in-screen display region, respectively, and are oriented substantially perpendicularly to the insulating transparent substrate. The sum of the height of the first spacer part and the thickness of the light-blocking layer is substantially equal to the sum of the height of the second spacer part and the thickness of the color filter layer.

Abstract: A large screen liquid crystal display device using a transverse electric field system which is capable of dramatically improving an aperture ratio, a transmittance ratio, brightness, and contrast with low cost and high production yield. For example, the width of the common electrodes that shield the electric fields of the video signal lines can be decreased dramatically and the aperture ratio can be improved dramatically. Especially, the bumps covering the video signal lines can be used along with the spacers, and with the use of halftone exposure method, the bumps covering the video signal lines and the spacers can be constructed at the same time, which dramatically shortens the time required for the production process.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises first and second substrates that face each other, first and second lines formed on the first substrate in first and second directions that cross each other, respectively. The liquid crystal display device further comprises a protrusion formed at a predetermined portion on the first line, a first column spacer formed on the second substrate so as to correspond to the protrusion and having a corresponding surface with respect to the protrusion. The corresponding surface is wider than the protrusion. The liquid crystal display device also comprises a compensation pattern formed at another predetermined portion on the first line where the protrusion is not formed, and having a lower height than the protrusion, a second column spacer corresponding to the compensation pattern. The liquid crystal display device then comprises a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. A method for manufacturing the LCD device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed, in which a plurality of spacers are formed around one corresponding projection as the same size and spaced apart from each other, to prevent the deformation of column spacers and to prevent the touch defect, the LCD device including first and second substrates facing each other; gate and data lines crossing each other to define a unit pixel region on the first substrate; a thin film transistor at a crossing area of the gate and data lines; a projection on the predetermined portion of the gate line; a plurality of column spacers overlapped with the predetermined portions of the projection and provided on the second substrate at regular intervals; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate 110a, a second substrate 110b placed to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer 120 interposed between the first and second substrates, a first electrode 111 formed on the first substrate, a second electrode 131 formed on the second substrate, an interlayer insulating film 115a placed between the first electrode and the first substrate, and a wall structure 115b formed integrally with the interlayer insulating film. The liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixels each including the first electrode, the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second electrodes. A shading region surrounds each of the plurality of pixels, and the wall structure is placed regularly in the shading region. A groove structure 415a may be formed in place of the wall structure.

Abstract: A mother glass panel for manufacturing a plurality of liquid crystal displays (LCD) includes a first substrate; a second substrate attached to the first substrate, wherein column spacers are disposed between the first and second substrates to form cell gaps; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein, the mother glass panel defines a plurality of liquid crystal display regions and at least two of the liquid crystal display regions have different cell gaps.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed in the present invention. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates including a plurality of liquid crystal display panel regions, each liquid crystal display panel region having an active region and a dummy region, a sealant outside the liquid crystal display panel regions, a dummy column spacer on the dummy region to control a liquid crystal flow, a buffer region between the sealant and the dummy column spacer to accommodate a liquid crystal, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: Structural objects are disposed in a peripheral region in positions opposed to spacers. In this way, a substrate surface of a counter substrate in the peripheral region is gently inclined in a direction away from a liquid crystal layer. In this way, it is possible to prevent unevenness in display attributable to a difference in a cell gap between a display region and the peripheral region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (50a) includes: an active matrix substrate (20a) having a plurality of gate lines (1a) extending in parallel with each other; a counter substrate (30a) arranged so as to face the active matrix substrate (20a); a liquid crystal layer (25) interposed between the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a); and spherical spacers (21) disposed between the active matrix substrate (20a) and the counter substrate (30a) so as to overlap each gate line (1a), for defining a thickness of the liquid crystal layer (25). A protruding wall (9a) is provided over each gate line (1a) of the active matrix substrate (20a) so as to surround the spacers (21).

Abstract: The present invention easily provides a liquid crystal display in which conductivity between a first substrate over which a pixel electrode is formed and a second substrate over which a counter electrode is formed, can be certainly obtained even when it has a narrow frame, without adding new steps. As for a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal is interposed between the first substrate over which the pixel electrode is formed and the second substrate over which the counter electrode is formed, when the first and second substrates are positioned so that the pixel electrode and the counter electrode are on the inside, and are attached to each other with a sealant, by providing a partition wall between the sealant and a conductive portion formed with a conductor to electrically connect the pixel electrode to the counter electrode, conductivity in a conductive portion can be certainly obtained.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes first and second substrates facing each other; a plurality of step portions on the first substrate; a plurality of first column spacers on the second substrate, the first column spacers contacting the step portions wherein an upper surface of the first column spacer is larger than a contact area between the first column spacer and the step portion; a plurality of second column spacers on the second substrate, the second column spacers spaced apart from the first substrate, wherein a first contact area between the first column spacers and the second substrate is smaller than a second contact area between the second column spacers and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates bonded to each other, first column spacers on the first substrate, protrusions on the second substrate that contact a center portion of an upper surface of the spacers, respectively, recesses formed in the second substrate surrounding the protrusions, respectively, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a data line and a gate line including a gate electrode on a first substrate, a first partition on the gate and data lines and including a first opening exposing the gate electrode, a gate insulator in the first opening, a source electrode on the gate insulator, a pixel electrode including a drain electrode facing the source electrode and on the gate insulator, a second partition on the source and pixel electrodes and including a second opening exposing portions of the source and drain electrodes, an organic semiconductor in the second opening, a second substrate facing the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates and having a same thickness as the second partition.

Abstract: Provided is an LCD having a liquid crystal panel including an active region serving as a display region and an outer region serving as a non-display region. The LCD includes a first substrate including an array unit and a color filter formed in the active region, an ESD (electrostatic discharge) circuit formed in the outer region, a pattern spacer formed on the ESD, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a sealant for attaching the first and second substrates together.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an upper substrate; a lower substrate facing the upper substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the upper and the lower substrates; common electrodes and pixel electrodes formed parallel to each other in pixel regions of the lower substrate; and polymer walls formed between the upper and the lower substrates. A manufacturing method includes forming gate and data lines on a lower substrate, the gate and data lines intersecting each other to define a plurality of pixel regions; forming thin film transistors at respective intersections of the gate and data lines; forming common electrodes and pixel electrodes in parallel with each other in the pixel regions; joining an upper substrate with the lower substrate so that a liquid crystal layer is disposed between the upper and the lower substrates; and forming a plurality of polymer walls between the upper and the lower substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a first panel comprising a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion has a height lower than of the second portion; a second panel facing the first panel; a spacer disposed between the first panel and the second panel and contacting the first portion of the first panel; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first panel and the second panel.

Abstract: A pillar-shaped spacer is disposed at the position between the boundary line of adjacent liquid crystal cells and an OLB terminal so as to face the end portion of the OLB terminal and so as to be interposed between a first large-size substrate and a second large-size substrate. Even when the respective liquid crystal cells are separated from one another along the boundary lines of the adjacent liquid crystal cells, exfoliation of the OLB terminals is prevented by the pillar-shaped spacers, so that extra cutting margins between the adjacent liquid crystal cells can be reduced and the manufacturing performance and the built-in number of the liquid crystal cells can be enhanced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, column spacers at designated areas of the second substrate, protrusions having a first height on the first substrate corresponding to portions of the column spacers, compensation patterns having a second height on the first substrate corresponding to the edges of the column spacers, the second height being lower than the first height, and a liquid crystal layer filling a gap between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: Providing a spacer forming method by which spacers can be securely formed in a predetermined region on a substrate. Ink containing granular spacers is jetted onto a crossing portion of a black matrix 5 in the shape of a lattice. Red pixel R, green pixel G and blue pixel B are formed in the openings of the lattice. The spacer containing ink is jetted onto the spacer forming positions from the nozzle by the ink jetting method. Plural drops of ink 7 are jetted onto each of the spacer forming positions on one of the opposite substrates E. The gap between the opposite substrates E can be securely maintained at a constant for filling with liquid crystal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element includes: a first substrate having a first surface and including a pixel electrode; a second substrate having a second surface opposing to the first surface, and including a light-shielding film, a thickness adjusting film and a counter electrode arranged in sequence in a direction to the second surface; a sealing material having a frame-shape to bond the first substrate and the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided in a region surrounded by the sealing material and between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the thickness adjusting film is provided to cover the light-shielding film to define the thickness of the liquid crystal layer, and has a contact hole, wherein the counter electrode is provided to oppose to the pixel electrode, and electrically connected to the light shielding film via the contact hole.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, liquid crystal material, a sealing member and pillar spacers. The substrates are provided with an alignment film respectively and the liquid crystal material is disposed between the substrates. The sealing member is provided between the substrates for sealing the liquid crystal material. The pillar spacers are provided on either one of the substrates and the pillar spacers includes asymmetric pillar spacers each having a major axis and a minor axis viewed from a normal direction of the substrates with a round front end and a sharp rear end of the major axis. The asymmetric pillar spacers are arranged on a pixel region in a vicinity of at least one corner of one of the substrates so that the rear end in a direction of the major axis is directed toward the corner.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate provided with an alignment film on one surface thereof, and a second substrate provided with an alignment film on one surface thereof. The first and second substrates are arranged to oppose each other with the alignment films inside the opposed first and second substrates. Spacers are interposed between the first and second substrates, and pixels are arranged in a matrix in the display apparatus. The spacers are arranged such that, along a direction of rubbing treatment for the alignment film of the second substrate, not more than one spacer is provided per pixel, at least one spacer is present per three consecutive pixels, and no three consecutive pixels all have a respective spacer corresponding thereto.

Abstract: A color filter substrate, including a substrate, a light shielding layer, a color filter layer, a conductive layer, first and second spacers, is provided. The substrate has a displaying area and a dummy area. The light shielding layer is disposed on the substrate. The color filter layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the light shielding layer. The color filter layer has at least one first concave in the dummy area. The conductive layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the color filter layer and the light shielding layer. The first spacers are disposed on the conductive layer and are in the dummy area. Each first spacer has a fixing part and a supporting part. And the fixing part is disposed in the first concave. A through hole is in each first spacer. The second spacers are disposed on the conductive layer and are in the displaying area.

Abstract: This invention discloses a photo spacer material arrangement method. The method is used for a flat display apparatus that comprises at least one photo spacer, a panel, and a substrate. The photo spacer material provides a fixed distance between the panel and the substrate. The photo spacer material arrangement method comprises providing an area unit composed of N×N sub-area units with multiple columns and multiple rows. In order to provide P photo spacers for uniform distributing on sub-area units with an arrangement mode, there is only one photo spacer in each column, and there is only one photo spacer in each row in sub-area units.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is divided into an active region and a liquid crystal margin region. The LCD includes a thin film transistor substrate that includes gate and data lines crossing each other to define pixel regions, and thin film transistors in the active region. A color filter substrate has column spacers in the active region that contact a portion corresponding to a region of the thin film transistor and the gate or data lines. The column spacers contacting the thin film transistor region provide an elastic gap between the substrates. The column spacers in the gate/data line region are separated from the color filter substrate. Other column spacers are formed in the liquid crystal margin region in a honeycomb arrangement. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the thin film transistor and color filter substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element includes two substrates divided into a display region and a non-display region, between which liquid crystals are sandwiched, and first columnar spacers, disposed between the two substrates in the display region, which make contact with the two substrates. The liquid crystal display element also includes second columnar spacers, disposed between the two substrates in the non-display region, which make contact with the two substrate by a contact area that is smaller than a contact area by which the first columnar spacers make contact with the two substrates. Therefore, generation of vacuum bubbles in the display region due to a temperature drop or a substrate deformation causes the substrates in the non-display region to be concaved, so that the liquid crystals move from the concaved portion of the non-display region to a portion of the display region which contains the vacuum bubbles.

Abstract: The invention relates to liquid crystal displays used in display sections of electronic apparatus and provides a liquid crystal display in which high anti-pressure characteristics can be achieved with a high aperture ratio maintained. A configuration is provided, which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, a plurality of pixel regions provided on the substrates, and protrusion-like structures provided in the pixel regions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal and maintaining a cell thickness between the substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a pixel electrode located on a lower substrate; a lower alignment layer located on the pixel electrode and having a predetermined alignment direction (or aligned in a predetermined direction); an upper substrate located apart from the lower substrate and having an opposite surface facing the lower substrate; an opposite electrode located on the opposite surface; an upper alignment layer located on the opposite electrode and having the predetermined alignment direction of the lower alignment layer; an upper protrusion line located between the upper substrate and the upper alignment layer and arranged in a direction crossing the predetermined alignment direction; and an optically compensated bend (OCB) mode liquid crystal layer located between the lower alignment layer and the upper alignment layer.

Abstract: Liquid crystal displays and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes first substrate and second substrate facing the first substrate, and liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The first substrate includes a peripheral part spacer of which a surface includes a transparent conductive material, the peripheral part spacer being connected to a common voltage connector of the second substrate. A common voltage is applied to the first substrate through the common voltage connector and the peripheral part spacer. The peripheral part spacer is formed in the same process step with a display part spacer. To provide the peripheral part spacer with conductivity, the surface of the peripheral part spacer is covered with a transparent conductive material in the same process step in which the common electrode is formed on the first substrate.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, and has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix having rows and columns. Each pixel includes a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, and the liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second electrodes. The first substrate has a shading region in gaps between the plurality of pixels, and a wall structure is placed regularly on the surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer in the shading region. The first and second electrodes have at least one opening formed at a predetermined position in the pixel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes opposing first and second substrates with a liquid crystal therebetween, and plural spacers formed on second substrate. An uneven portion of a rectangular shape is formed in an area on the first substrate facing an end portion of the respective spacers, and the end portion of the respective spacers and the uneven portion contact mutually, and a long side of the uneven portion is longer than one side of the end portion of the respective spacers, and a short side of the uneven portion is shorter than another side of the end portion of the respective spacers.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and its fabrication method are disclosed. Specifically, a fabrication method in which polyhedral spacers are implemented on a substrate through an ink jet method are used for an LCD device. The spacers have the polyhedral shape to increase their contact area with two substrates, and include a surface processed layer for strengthening a bonding force in its bonding with an alignment film formed on the two substrates. The spacers have a polyhedral shape for maintaining the cell gap between the substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal area defined within a display area by a sealant, and a non-display area formed in an outer part of the display area, and at least one bubble trap arranged in the outer part of the sealant within the non-display area and patterned to have a concave surface facing toward outside of the non-display area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a color filter substrate and a thin film transistor array substrate arranged in parallel and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. In addition, several spacers are disposed on a black matrix of the color filter substrate. These spacers lean on the edge of at least one of the gate layer lines and source layer lines on the thin film transistor array substrate. The invention increases the bonding stability between the color filter substrate and the thin film transistor array substrate so that the reliability and display quality of the liquid crystal display panel is improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates. The first substrate has a first insulating substrate, and a pixel electrode formed on the first insulating substrate with a first opening pattern. The second substrate has a second insulating substrate, and a common electrode formed on the second insulating substrate with a second opening pattern. The first and the second opening patterns proceed parallel to each other while being arranged in an alternate manner. A liquid crystal material is injected between the first and the second substrates. A spacer is positioned at an end of the second opening pattern to maintain the distance between the first and the second substrates.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including an array substrate which is provided with contact holes and a counter substrate which is provided with integral spacers and aligned with the array substrate, an overall region including every pixel region is divided into a plurality of subregions, each of which includes two or more said spacers and is composed of at least one said pixel region. The spacers are so arranged that when one or some of the spacers are positioned to get into the corresponding contact holes, the rest of the spacers are positioned off the corresponding contact holes. By so doing, a uniform gap is provided between the substrates even if accuracy in aligning the substrates with each other is not considerably high.