Patent ID: 7327429

Claim:
A substrate for an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device, comprising: a gate line along a first direction; a data line along a second direction, the data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a thin film transistor at a crossing of the gate and data lines; at least two pixel connecting lines along the second direction and in the pixel region, one of the at least two pixel connecting lines connected to the thin film transistor; pixel electrodes along a third direction within the pixel region; common electrodes along the third direction, the common electrodes being in an alternating pattern with the pixel electrodes; an alignment layer covering the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes, the alignment layer having an alignment direction along the first direction; and at least two common connecting lines in the second direction of each pixel region, wherein the common connecting lines are near the data line and wherein one of the at least two common connecting lines combines one end of each of the common electrodes and another one of the at least two common connecting lines combines the other end of the common electrodes, and wherein one of the at least two pixel connecting lines combines one end of each of the pixel electrodes and another one of the at least two pixel connecting lines combines the other end of the pixel electrodes.