Patent ID: 7573555

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a pair of opposing substrates; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer having negative anisotropy; a seal for sealing the liquid crystal layer and disposed between the substrates, the seal including a liquid crystal inlet corresponding to one edge of at least one of the substrates; and protrusions disposed in between the pair of substrates, the protrusions being for controlling the tilting direction of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer, the protrusions being juxtaposed in a matrix including rows and columns of protrusions wherein protrusions aligned in the rows are further aligned in the columns, the rows being aligned substantially parallel with the one edge and the columns being aligned substantially perpendicular to the one edge, the rows being separated from each other by a substantially uniform row interval and the columns being separated from each other by a substantially uniform column interval, the column interval being greater than the row interval.