Patent 7202992 was granted and assigned to Seiko Epson on April, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electrophoretic display device of the present invention is formed of a first substrate, a second substrate, and microcapsules which are accommodated between these substrates and which contain an electrophoretic dispersion, wherein each of the microcapsules has an opening in at least a part thereof.