Patent ID: 8570476

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a gate line disposed along a first direction; a data line crossing the gate line along a second direction; a thin film transistor disposed on the gate line and connected to the gate line and the data line; a first common electrode disposed on the same layer as the gate line and including first and second horizontal electrode bars and a plurality of first vertical common electrode bars extended between the first and second horizontal electrode bars, the first horizontal electrode bar disposed adjacent to the gate line; a second common electrode disposed on a layer different from the first common electrode and including a third horizontal common electrode bar and a plurality of second vertical common electrode bars; and a pixel electrode disposed on the same layer as the second common electrode and including a horizontal pixel electrode bar and a plurality of vertical pixel electrode bars alternately arranged with the plurality of second vertical common electrode bars, wherein an entire region of the second horizontal electrode bar of the first common electrode overlap the third horizontal electrode bar of the second common electrode, wherein the third horizontal electrode bar of the second common electrode and the horizontal pixel electrode bar of the pixel electrode are disposed on the same layer, wherein the outermost first vertical common electrode bars of the first common electrode overlap the corresponding outermost vertical pixel electrode bars of the pixel electrode, respectively to form a storage capacitor, and wherein the remaining first vertical common electrode bars of the first common electrode between the outermost first vertical common electrode bars each entirely overlap with each corresponding one of the second vertical common electrode bars of the second common electrode along a lengthwise direction of the second vertical common electrode bars.