Patent ID: 8704991

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a plurality of gate pads and a plurality of gate driver circuit lines arranged in a first direction and contacted with a substrate, the gate pad being physically spaced apart from and being electrically isolated from the gate driver circuit line; a gate insulating layer on the gate pads and the gate driver circuit lines; a passivation layer on the gate insulating layer; a first contact hole passing through the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer to expose a portion of each of the gate pads; a plurality of second contact holes passing through the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer to expose a portion of each of the gate driver circuit lines; a plurality of transparent electrode patterns on the passivation layer, wherein the transparent electrode pattern is disposed on top of the gate pad and the gate driver line to facilitate an electrical connection between the gate pad and the gate driver circuit line, wherein the transparent electrode pattern is electrically connected to the gate driver circuit line through the plurality of second contact holes, wherein the transparent electrode pattern has a bottom surface that directly contacts a top surface of the passivation layer between the plurality of second contact holes of the passivation layer, wherein the number of the second contact holes on the gate driver circuit lines increase as it goes from the gate driver circuit lines at a center region to the gate driver circuit lines at the edge region according to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the plurality of transparent electrode patterns have different length according to the first direction, and wherein overlapping areas between the plurality of transparent electrode patterns and the plurality of gate driver circuit lines are different.