Patent ID: 7427781

Claim:
A thin film transistor array substrate, adapted to form a liquid crystal display apparatus with a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal layer, wherein a black matrix is disposed on the color filter substrate, and wherein at least one of a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of first slits are disposed on the color filter substrate, the thin film transistor array substrate comprising: a substrate; a plurality of scan lines disposed on the substrate; a plurality of data lines disposed on the substrate, wherein the data lines and the scan lines define a plurality of pixel areas on the substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors, each of the thin film transistors being disposed in one corresponding pixel area, wherein the thin film transistors are driven through the scan lines and the data lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes, each of the pixel electrodes being disposed in one corresponding pixel area and electrically connecting with the corresponding thin film transistor; a plurality of common lines disposed on the substrate, wherein each of the common lines is disposed between two neighboring scan lines, and at least a part of the corresponding pixel electrode is over the corresponding common line; a plurality of lower electrodes, each of the lower electrodes comprising an electrode main body disposed between the corresponding pixel electrode and the corresponding common line, and one electrode branch partly corresponding with at least one of the plurality of protrusions and the plurality of first slits, and being overlapped with the black matrix, such that the corresponding pixel electrode covers a part of the corresponding electrode branch; and a plurality of connecting conductive layers, wherein each of the connecting conductive layer is disposed over a part of the electrode main body of the corresponding lower electrode and is disposed over a part of the corresponding common line, and each connecting conductive layer is electrically connected with the corresponding lower electrode and the corresponding common line, respectively.