Patent ID: 8456600

Claim:
An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second gate lines on a substrate including first and second pixel regions, the first pixel region including a first domain at a lower side with respect to the first gate line and a second domain at an upper side with respect to the first gate line, and the second pixel region including a first domain at an upper side with respect to the second gate line and a second domain at a lower side with respect to the second gate line; a data line crossing the first and second gate lines; a thin film transistor in each of the first and second pixel regions and at a crossing portion of each of the first and second gate lines and the data line; a plurality of first pixel electrodes in the first domain of the first and second pixel regions; a plurality of second pixel electrodes in the second domain of the first and second pixel regions, the plurality of first pixel electrodes and plurality of second pixel electrodes sharing the thin film transistor; a plurality of first common electrodes in the first domain of the first and second pixel regions and alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel electrodes; and a plurality of second common electrodes in the second domain of the first and second pixel regions and alternately arranged with the plurality of second pixel electrodes, wherein the plurality of first pixel electrodes in the first domain of the first and second pixel regions has substantially the same direction.