Patent ID: 8013974

Claim:
A method of fabricating a thin film transistor substrate, comprising: forming gate lines on a substrate; forming data lines that cross the gate lines with a gate insulating film therebetween, and forming a data shorting bar connected to an odd and an even data shorting line extended from a data pad connected to the data line; forming a thin film transistor at an intersection of the gate line and the data lines; forming a protective film that covers a thin film transistor formed on a gate insulating film; forming a pixel electrode connected, via a contact hole that passes through the protective film, to the thin film transistor; forming gate shorting bar connected to an odd and an even gate shorting line extended from a gate pad connected to the gate line; and forming an open hole that separates either the odd or even gate shorting line from the gate shorting bar on the protective film, wherein the gate shorting, bar includes a first gate shorting bar connected to the odd gate shorting line that extends from the pate pad and a second gate shorting bar connected to the even gate shorting line separated from the first gate shorting bar by an open hole; wherein the even gate shorting line is separated from the first pate shorting bar by the open hole, wherein the second gate shorting bar is simultaneously formed along with the data lines and is formed to cross with the gate shorting lines with having the gate insulating film therebetween, wherein the gate insulating film is located between the first pate shorting bar and the second gate shorting bar.