Patent ID: 7336336

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, the method comprising: providing a color filter array substrate; and providing a thin film transistor array substrate opposed to the color filter array substrate and having: a gate line and a data line intersecting each other on a lower substrate with a gate insulating film therebetween, a thin film transistor provided at an intersection between the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a pad connected to a signal line via a contact hole, the signal line including the gate line or the data line, the pad formed from a transparent conductive film, and a protective film provided at least in an area overlapping with the color filter array substrate; joining the thin film transistor array substrate with the color filter array substrate by a sealant to expose a pad area including a gate pad and a data pad; and removing the protective film using the color filter array substrate as a mask to expose the transparent conductive film of the pad area, wherein the contact hole exposes an end of at least one of the pad and the signal line as well as an area adjacent thereto.