Patent ID: 8508706

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate including an active area and a peripheral area surrounding the active area; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a seal material formed in the peripheral area on the first substrate surrounding the active area to attach the first substrate and second substrate with a predetermined cell gap therebetween, the seal material formed in an approximately rectangular closed loop shape having four straight line portions and including an expanded portion in which the width of one of the line portions is locally expanded; and a barrier arranged between the location where the expanded portion is formed and one end of the first substrate; wherein, the expanded portion of the seal material is formed in a portion where a starting portion of a drawing of the seal material overlaps with a terminal portion of the drawing, the first substrate includes an insulating substrate, an insulating film formed on the insulating substrate, and a pillar-shaped spacer formed on the insulating film in the active area to make a cell gap, and the barrier is formed on the insulating film by a same material as the pillar-shaped spacer and extends approximately in parallel with the straight line portion of the seal material.