Patent ID: 6989883

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates facing each other and spaced apart by a uniform cell gap; an array element having a switching element on the first substrate and a first transparent electrode connected to the switching element; a first patterned spacer disposed on the array element having a first height less than the uniform cell gap; a second transparent electrode under the second substrate; a second patterned spacer disposed beneath the second transparent electrode, the second patterned spacer having a second height less than the uniform cell gap and connected to the first patterned spacer; a first alignment layer covering the first patterned spacer; a second alignment layer covering the second patterned spacer; and a liquid crystal material layer interposed between the first and second alignment layers, wherein the first and second spacers are connected to each other and a summation of the first and second heights of the first and second patterned spacers is equivalent to the uniform cell gap, and wherein a first one of the first and second heights is between 80% and 90% of the uniform cell gap and a second one of the first and second heights is between 10% and 20% of the uniform cell gap.