Patent ID: 7719655

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus comprising: a lower substrate comprising: a first insulating substrate; a gate line formed on the first insulating substrate; an auxiliary electrode line disposed between two adjacent gate lines and formed on a same layer as the gate line, wherein a portion of the auxiliary electrode line operates as a first auxiliary electrode of an auxiliary capacitor; a data line formed over the gate line; a second auxiliary electrode extending from a drain electrode, the second auxiliary electrode overlapping the first auxiliary electrode; an organic layer covering the drain electrode and the second auxiliary electrode, the organic layer having a contact hole for exposing a portion of the second auxiliary electrode, wherein the contact hole is disposed over the auxiliary electrode line and the second auxiliary electrode that overlap with each other; and a pixel electrode formed on organic layer, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole; an upper substrate coupled to the lower substrate, the upper substrate having a spacer to uniformly maintain a cell gap between the lower and upper substrates, wherein the spacer is disposed corresponding to the contact hole so that the spacer is disposed over the first auxiliary electrode and the second auxiliary electrode; and a liquid crystal interposed between the lower and upper substrates.