Patent ID: 8330919

Claim:
An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device, comprising: a substrate; a gate line on the substrate; first and second common lines parallel to and spaced apart from the gate line; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, the pixel electrode having a plate shape; a plurality of common electrodes connected between the first and second common lines, the plurality of common electrodes overlapping the pixel electrode; and first and second shielding electrodes parallel to the data line, the first and second shielding electrodes spaced apart from each other with respect to the data line, wherein the first and second shielding electrodes overlap the data line continuously along the data line between the first and second common lines, and wherein the first and second shielding electrodes are positioned over the data line.