Patent ID: 7199847

Claim:
A transflective liquid-crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate having a common electrode on a surface adjacent to the liquid crystal layer, the second substrate having a plurality of switching elements on a surface adjacent to the liquid crystal layer, the switching elements being coated with an insulator film, the insulator film having a plurality of light-reflective pixel electrodes electrically connected to the switching elements thereon, at least part of the pixel electrodes having a through-hole, and the insulator film having a recess under the through-hole; and a planar transparent electrode layer is located at least on a bottom of the recess and extends to at least the electrical connection with the switching elements, the recess being located on the electrode layer, a part of the insulating film being left as a coating layer in the recess, the liquid crystal existing between the substrates being introduced in the recess so that a first thickness of the liquid crystal in the recess formed region and a second thickness of the liquid crystal in the pixel-electrode formed region are different.