Patent ID: 7501296

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising the steps of: forming a gate line and a data line on a thin film transistor array substrate in such a manner as to cross each other; forming a gate insulating film between the gate line and the data line on the thin film transistor array substrate; forming a thin film transistor adjacent to the crossing of the gate line and the data line on the thin film transistor array substrate, the thin film transistor having a source, drain and gate electrodes; forming a pixel electrode connected to and directly contacting the drain electrode of the thin film transistor on the thin film transistor array substrate; forming a protective film for protecting the thin film transistor on the thin film transistor array substrate; forming a pad connected to one of the gate line and the data line in a pad area of the thin film transistor array substrate; forming a transparent electrode pattern on the data line, source electrode and drain electrode of the thin film transistor array substrate; joining a color filter array substrate to the thin film transistor array substrate so that the color filter substrate does not overlap the pad area of the thin film transistor array substrate; and etching at least one of the gate insulating film and protective film in the pad area using the color filter array substrate as a mask.