Patent ID: 7088418

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device which has first and second substrates disposed with a predetermined gap formed therebetween, and seals a liquid crystal in the gap, comprising: a seal member provided in the gap between said first and second substrates, said seal member being disposed outside a display area to seal said liquid crystal; a wall-like structure disposed outside the display area and inside the seal member, a column-like structure formed by a column member ( 28 ) and a thereto-facing column member ( 35 ), each said member ( 28 , 35 ) being separately formed on said first and second substrates, for keeping the gap between said first and second substrates constant, wherein said column member is formed by the same patterning process of said wall-like structure, and a shape of said wall-like structure is determined based on a state of said column-like structure, said wall-like structure being formed to a height which is lower than that of the gap formed between said first substrate and said second substrate, wherein a minor space is formed between a free end of said wall-like structure and the adjacent substrate for reducing the meniscus of liquid crystal material flowing through said space, said wall-like structure being made of a different material from that of said seal member and formed in plural rows; said wall-like structure being composed of dashed rows having notches; said notches of said wall-like structure being formed alternately in staggered relationship in each of the plurality of dashed rows such that the notches in one row of said plural wall-like structure are always offset relative to the notches in another row of said wall-like structures along the lengths of said wall-like structures whereby one said wall-like structure forms a barrier to a direct flow of said seal material through gaps formed by the notches in another said wall-like structure so that said seal material does not flow directly into said display area from exteriorly of said wall-like structures, wherein positions of the notches of the plural dashed rows in said wall-like structure are determined based on a position of a wiring formed either on said first substrate or on said second substrate, wherein said wall-like structure is composed of dashed rows having notches, and wherein the positions of the notches of the plural dashed rows in said wall-like structure are determined based on a position of a wiring formed either on said first substrate or on said second substrate.