Patent ID: 8345213

Claim:
A liquid crystal device, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate which face each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a plurality of columnar spacers arranged on a liquid crystal thickness adjustment layer that is formed on a surface of a liquid crystal layer side of the first surface, said columnar spacers maintaining a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of spacer reception portions arranged on a surface of a liquid crystal layer side of the second substrate in regions which face the columnar spacers; wherein the plurality of spacer reception portions include contact reception portions which are in contact with the columnar spacers and concave non-contact reception portions which are not in contact with the columnar spacers, and wherein the concave non-contact reception portions include a first concave non-contact reception portion having a first depth and a second concave non-contact reception portion having a second depth that is different from the first depth.