LCD having stacked color filter spacers in which some spacers are continuous with a color filter layer and others are not

A liquid crystal display device comprising:

• an electrode substrate having a first electrode on a first substrate;
• a color filter portion having colored layers of plural colors disposed on a second substrate;
• a color filter substrate including a first spacer portion having colored layers stacked on the second substrate, wherein the stacked colored layers have at least two of the colors in the colored filter portion and one of the stacked colored layers is continuous with and the same color as a colored layer of the color filter portion, a second spacer portion having colored layers stacked on the second substrate, wherein the stacked colored layers have at least two of the colors in the colored filter portion and all of the stacked colored layers are discontinuous with each colored layer of the color filter portion, and a second electrode;
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• a liquid crystal layer interposing between the electrode substrate and the color filter substrate.

A liquid crystal display device comprising:

• a matrix substrate including plural scanning lines and plural signal lines disposed in a matrix form on a first substrate, switching elements formed at intersecting portions of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and connected at one end to the signal lines to carry out ON/OFF operations on the basis of signals from the scanning lines, and plural pixel electrodes connected to the other end of each switching element;
• a color filter substrate including a color filter portion having stripe-shaped colored layers of plural colors formed in a manner to correspond to the pixel electrodes and to take a form substantially in parallel to the signal lines on a second substrate, a first spacer portion having colored layers stacked on the second substrate, wherein the stacked colored layers have at least two of the colors in the colored filter portion and one of the stacked colored layers is continuous with and the same color as a colored layer of the color filter portion, a second spacer portion having colored layers stacked on the second substrate, wherein the stacked colored layers have at least two of the colors in the colored filter portion and all of the stacked colored layers are discontinuous with each colored layer of the color filter portion, and an opposite electrode;
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• a liquid crystal layer interposing between the electrode substrate and the color filter substrate.

A liquid crystal display device comprising:

• a matrix substrate including plural scanning lines and plural signal lines disposed in a matrix form on a first substrate, switching elements formed at intersecting portions of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and connected at one end to the signal lines to carry out ON/OFF operations on the basis of signals from the scanning lines, a color filter portion having colored layers of plural colors which cover substantially the entire surface of the first substrate including the scanning lines, the signal lines and the switching elements, a first spacer portion having colored layers stacked on the first substrate, wherein the stacked colored layers have at least two of the colors in the colored filter portion and one of the stacked colored layers is continuous with and the same color as a colored layer of the color filter portion, a second spacer portion having colored layers stacked on the first substrate, wherein the stacked colored layers have at least two of the colors in the colored filter portion and all of the stacked colored layers are discontinuous with each colored layer of the color filter portion, and pixel electrodes provided on the color filter portion and connected to the other end of the switching elements by through-holes provided in the colored layers of the colored filter portion;
• an opposite electrode substrate adapted so that an opposite electrode is formed on a second substrate;
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• a liquid crystal layer interposing between the electrode substrate and the color filter substrate.