Patent ID: 8174471

Claim:
An array substrate for a display device, comprising: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, the non-display area having a link area and a pad area; array elements in the display area on the substrate; first to nth pads in the pad area (n is an even number larger than 8); first to nth link lines in the link area and connected between the first to nth pads and the array elements, respectively, wherein the first to (n/2−1)th link lines have inclined portions, a width of the inclined portion of the pth link line is wider than a width of the inclined portion of the qth link line, a length of the inclined portion of the pth link line is longer than a length of the inclined portion of the qth link line, k is a natural number larger than 2, p and q are natural numbers, and (n/2−1)≧k≧q>p≧1, wherein link pitches of the inclined portions of the first to kth link lines decrease.