Patent ID: 7295276

Claim:
An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line on the first substrate; a gate pad formed at one end of the gate line; a common line parallel to and spaced apart from the gate line; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a data pad formed at one end of the data line; a terminal line parallel to and spaced apart from the data line, the terminal line being connected to one end of the common line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode in the pixel region, the pixel electrode being connected to the thin film transistor; a common electrode connected to the common line; a contact terminal connected to the other end of the common line opposite the terminal line and spaced apart from an adjacent contact terminal, the contact terminal having an island shape, the contact terminal formed above a passivation layer, said passivation layer formed on the data line; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; and a connection electrode contacting the terminal line and the common line.