Patent ID: 7852448

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device with a plurality of pixels comprising: a drive substrate including more than one pixel electrode; a counter substrate including a counter electrode common to a plurality of said pixels, the counter substrate and the drive substrate positioned so that the pixel electrodes and the counter electrode face each other; apertures in the counter electrode below said counter substrate and formed by removal of respective portions of the counter electrode; spacers, each of which correspond to an aperture, the spacers interposed between the drive substrate and the counter substrate; a first alignment layer on the counter electrode; a second alignment layer on the pixel electrodes and the spacers; and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the drive substrate and the counter substrate, wherein, the spacers are configured in a columnar shape, a portion of the spacer extends into the aperture, and the aperture has a shape that is larger than the portion of the spacer that extends into the aperture such that there is space in-between the interior sidewalls of the aperture and the entire portion of at least one edge of said spacer that extends into the aperture.