Patent ID: 7433008

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising: an active region including a plurality of gate lines and data lines crossing each other; gate pads and data pads; gate link lines between the gate lines and the gate pads; data link lines between the data lines and the data pads; a first resistance compensation structure including at least one recess or hole in at least one of the gate link lines to compensate a resistance value of the gate link lines; and a second resistance compensation structure including at least one recess or hole in at least one of the data link lines to compensate a resistance value of the data link lines, wherein the first resistance compensation structure is formed at the same time the gate link lines are patterned and the second resistance compensation structure is formed at the same time the data link lines are patterned, wherein the number of first resistance compensation structures in the gate link lines increases with decreasing lengths of the gate link lines, and the number of second resistance compensation structures in the data link lines increases with decreasing lengths of the data link lines, and wherein the longest gate link line does not include the first resistance compensation structure, and the longest data link line does not include the second resistance compensation structure.