Patent ID: 8373833

Claim:
An array substrate for a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device, comprising: a plurality of gate lines on a substrate; a gate insulating layer on the plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines on the gate insulating layer and crossing the plurality of gate lines to define a plurality of pixel regions; a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate and data lines and in each pixel region; a first passivation layer between the gate insulating layer and the pixel electrode and having a contact hole exposing the portion of the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode having a plate shape and in the each pixel region, the pixel electrode connected to a portion of the thin film transistor; a second passivation layer on the pixel electrode and over the thin film transistor; and a common electrode on the second passivation layer and having a plurality of openings of a bar shape in the each pixel region, each of the openings having a major axis along the data line and a minor axis along the gate line, wherein a center portion of each opening overlaps the pixel electrode, and an end along the minor axis of an outermost opening of the plurality of openings protrudes beyond the pixel electrode, and wherein the pixel electrode on the second insulating layer is connected to the portion of the thin film transistor through the contact hole.