Patent ID: 7525631

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: first and second substrates facing each other; first and second column spacers on the second substrate; a protrusion on the first substrate corresponding to the first column spacer; a compensation pattern on the first substrate corresponding to a periphery of the second column spacer, wherein the compensation pattern includes a plurality of compensation patterns equally spaced apart from a first surface of second column spacer, the first surface of the second column spacer is opposite to the first substrate, wherein a first distance between the plurality of compensation patterns is more than a second distance across the first surface of the second column spacer opposite to the first substrate between a first side surface and a second side surface of the second column spacer, and the second distance is less than a third distance of a second surface of the second column spacer adjacent to the second substrate between a first side surface and a second side surface of the second column spacer, wherein a bonding margin between the first and second substrates is smaller than to {(the first distance+the second distance)/2+ the distance of upper surface of the compensation pattern}; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.