Patent ID: 8471996

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel comprising: a first substrate including a transparent substrate on which a transistor, a pixel electrode, and a signal line are formed; a second substrate including a transparent substrate on which a common electrode is formed; a liquid crystal material provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a main spacer which is spherical and is in contact with the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate having a surface provided with a region which is away from the transparent substrate in the first substrate at a distance shorter than a distance between (i) the transparent substrate in the first substrate and (ii) a portion where the surface of the first substrate and the main spacer are in contact with each other, a sub spacer which is spherical being provided so as to overlap the region; wherein the region is defined by a first recess provided on the surface of the first substrate; and the second substrate has a surface including a portion which overlaps the sub spacer and which is recessed.