Patent ID: 8059253

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: an active-matrix substrate including a plurality of switching elements that are arranged in a matrix; a color filter substrate, which is arranged so as to face the active-matrix substrate; and a liquid crystal layer, which is interposed between the active-matrix substrate and the color filter substrate; wherein the color filter substrate includes: a transparent substrate; a color filter layer, which is arranged on the transparent substrate; and a plurality of columnar spacers sticking out of the transparent substrate; wherein the columnar spacers include first and second types of columnar spacers with mutually different heights; the active-matrix substrate further includes a gap adjusting layer, which is selectively arranged only at the shorter one of the two types of columnar spacers so as to face the shorter one of the two types of columnar spacers and adjust the gap between those shorter columnar spacers and the surface of the active-matrix substrate; and the active-matrix substrate further includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines that intersect with the gate lines, and the gap adjusting layer is made of the same film as that of either of the gate lines or the source lines.