Patent ID: 7280176

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD), comprising: a first substrate having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and second substrate and comprising a plurality of liquid crystal molecules; a plurality of pixel regions formed between the first substrate and the second substrate and districted by the gate lines and data lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed in the pixel regions, respectively, on the first substrate; and a plurality of planar common electrodes formed in the pixel regions, respectively, on the first substrate, and electrically connected to each other, wherein the plurality of pixel electrodes overlap the plurality of common electrodes to form storage capacitors in each pixel region, and wherein each of the plurality of pixel electrodes includes a plurality of linear pixel electrodes connected to each other by a connecting portion, and the common electrode in each pixel region includes a single continuous planer portion extending in a first direction parallel to the connecting portion from a first linear pixel electrode to a last linear pixel electrode connected by the connecting portion, wherein the single continuous planar portion overlaps and runs between each of the linear pixel electrodes in each pixel region.