Liquid crystal display device
View Patent ↗A improved liquid crystal display device including two substrates each having transparent electrode thereon disposed in parallel while keeping a predetermined gap by means of pillar-shaped spacers and a liquid crystal held between said first and second substrates is proposed. In the liquid crystal display device, density or volume of the number of the pillar-shaped spacers provided in the off-display area is higher than those of a density of the number of said pillar-shaped spacers provided in the display area. This change is made continuously or stepwise along areas. The spacers are preferably disposed so that a contact area between the spacer and a rubbing cloth during the rubbing process is minimized, or so that an orientation defective area caused starting from the spacer does not extend into the pixel area, or so that a plurality of spacers are disposed along a flow of liquid crystal from filling port into the gap between the first and second substrate.
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
first and second substrates disposed in parallel while keeping a predetermined gap; and
a liquid crystal permeating into the gap and held between said first and second substrates, said first substrate including:
a plurality of pillar-shaped resin spacers having the gap between said first and second substrates; and
a first transparent electrode for applying a voltage across said liquid crystal;
said second substrate including:
a second transparent electrode for applying the voltage across said liquid crystal,
wherein said liquid crystal display device includes an off-display area giving no display in an outer peripheral portion and a display area giving the display inwardly thereof, and
a volume of said pillar-shaped resin spacers provided in the off-display area is larger than a volume of said pillar-shaped resin spacers provided in the display area.
2. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the volume of said pillar-shaped spacers provided in the off-display area becomes larger as it gets farther from the display area.
3. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the off-display area is divided into a plurality of subareas in accordance with distances from the display area, and
the subarea farther from the display area among the divided subareas has a larger volume of said pillar-shaped spacers.
4. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein a dummy pattern is formed in a portion corresponding to said pillar-shaped spacer in the off-display area on said second substrate.