Patent ID: 8730436

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a gate line and a data line disposed on the first substrate such that the gate line and the data line intersect each other to define a pixel region; a thin film transistor disposed at an intersection between the gate line and the data line; a black matrix layer disposed on the second substrate in a portions corresponding to the gate line and the data line; a color filter layer disposed on the second substrate including the black matrix layer; a spacer formed in a predetermined portion provided within a width of the black matrix layer, wherein the spacer comprises a plurality of balls, and a solid to aggregate the balls together and adhere the balls to the first substrate; a hard coating layer disposed on the second substrate facing the spacer, wherein the hard coating layer has substantially hardness equivalent to that of the balls; and a liquid crystal layer filled between the first substrate and the second substrate.