Patent ID: 7936436

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display panel which sandwiches a liquid crystal material between a pair of substrates, wherein the pair of substrates consist of a first substrate having a pixel electrode and a second substrate having a counter electrode, one of the pair of substrates includes an orientation control projection which is formed by forming a conductive film on the one of the pair of substrates, by forming an insulation film on the conductive film and, thereafter, by patterning the insulation film, a light shielding layer which is formed by patterning the conductive film using the orientation control projection as a mask, wherein the light shielding layer has an outer periphery thereof as viewed from above a planar surface of the substrate arranged inside an outer periphery of the orientation control projection and, at the same time, a whole side surface of the outer periphery of the light shielding layer is not covered with the orientation control projection, wherein the one of the pair of substrates has a step forming layer which forms two thicknesses as a thickness of a layer of the liquid crystal material between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode, and the orientation control projection and the light shielding layer pass an end portion of the step forming layer and extend over two regions which differ in the thickness of the layer of the liquid crystal material.