Patent ID: 7440054

Claim:
A transflective device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate; a pixel region including a reflective display region, a transmissive display region, and electrodes; a light-reflecting layer formed between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate; and a thickness-adjusting layer setting the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in at least a portion of the reflective display region to be smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in at least a portion of the transmissive display region, the thickness adjusting layer having an edge that faces the transmissive display region, the edge being at a thinnest portion of the thickness-adjusting layer that is nearest to a substrate over which the thickness layer is formed, the thickness-adjusting layer further having a sloping section that extends from the edge in a direction extending away from the corresponding substrate and extending away from the transmissive display region further into the reflective display region, the edge of the thickness adjusting layer and the sloping section at least adjacent to the edge being overlapped by a portion of the light-reflecting layer.