Liquid crystal device and electronic equipment
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorAkihiro Ogawa
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Abstract
In a liquid crystal device, a shoulder portion configured to increase the distance between a element-substrate-side substrate body and a opposed-substrate-side substrate body is provided on the opposed-substrate-side substrate body in an area overlapped with a sealing material including a gap material. Therefore, in an area inside the sealing material, the gap between the element substrate and the opposed substrate is smaller than the gap therebetween in the area overlapped with the sealing material. Therefore, the layer thickness of the liquid crystal layer can be reduced without reducing the size of the gap material.
Claims10
A liquid crystal device comprising:
- an element substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes on one surface thereof;
- an opposed substrate holding a liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the one surface of the element substrate;
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- a sealing material including a gap material that controls the distance between the element substrate and the opposed substrate and bonding the element substrate and the opposed substrate to each other,
- wherein at least one of the element substrate and the opposed substrate having a shoulder portion provided in an area overlapped with the sealing material for increasing the distance between the element substrate and the opposed substrate in the area overlapped with the sealing material seal member to be larger than the distance between the element substrate and the opposed substrate in an area surrounded by the sealing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.