a better understanding of the present invention together with other and further objects advantages and capabilities thereof reference is made to the following disclosure and appended claims in connection with the above described drawings it is understood that like numerals may be used to indicate like elements from fig to fig in order to inhibit a sealing material from spreading inward at the corner portion the inventors of the present invention have studied structures showing behavior of sealing material as it spreads toward such corner portions specifically the inventors have focused on controlling the behavior by use of surface tension in other words a liquid to be applied to a protruding portion having a given area on its upper surface has a characteristic attributable to its surface tension that causes it to spread over the upper surface of the protruding portion but it does not easily fall off this portion one of the characteristics of the present invention is to form a radial protruding portion at a corner portion of a liquid crystal cell by use of the foregoing characteristic such that the sealing material applied prior to laminating the two substrates spreads toward the outside of the corner portion accordingly in one embodiment of the present invention the sealing material forms a frame shape composed of linear edge regions and corner regions for connecting the edge regions and the plurality of pads are radially disposed at the corner regions of the sealing material.