Patent ID: 8379177

Claim:
An array substrate for a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device, comprising: a substrate including a display region and a non-display region at a periphery of the display region; a gate line on the substrate and in the display region; a common pad on the substrate and in the non-display region; a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the common pad; a data line on the gate insulating layer and crossing the gate line to define a pixel region in the display region; a thin film transistor connected to the gate and data lines and positioned in the pixel region; a first passivation layer on the data line and the thin film transistor; a common electrode on the first passivation layer and covering an entire surface of the display region except for a portion above the thin film transistor; a second passivation layer on the common electrode; and a pixel electrode on the second passivation layer and having a plate shape in each pixel region, the pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and having at least one opening.