Patent ID: 8591694

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, comprising: forming a continuous loop shaped seal pattern comprising a sealant over one of a pair of substrates; dropping a plurality of droplets of smectic liquid crystal over one of the pair of substrates on which rubbing treatment is performed so that the plurality of droplets of the smectic liquid crystal is aligned in only one line parallel to a direction of the rubbing treatment; and fixing the pair of substrates to each other with the sealant to sandwich the smectic liquid crystal, wherein the step of dropping the plurality of droplets of the smectic liquid crystal is performed on a dropping stage, the dropping stage being kept at a temperature higher than a temperature at which the smectic liquid crystal is in an isotropic phase so that the plurality of droplets of the smectic liquid crystal spread in the continuous loop shaped seal pattern, and wherein the spread plurality of droplets is in contact with four sides of the continuous loop shaped seal pattern.