Patent ID: 7586555

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates facing each other, a gate line and a data line on the first substrate, the gate line and the data line crossing each other to define a pixel region; a transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, the transistor including a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; first and second shielding layers on the transistor, the second shielding layer connected to the drain electrode of the transistor; a color filter layer on the first and second shielding layer; a pixel electrode on the color filter layer; a black matrix formed on the second substrate; a common electrode on the black matrix; a patterned spacer formed on the common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein the first and second shielding layers are disconnected from each other and formed in the same layer, wherein the first shielding layer is arranged such that it covers a space between the source and drain electrodes of the transistor, and wherein the first shielding layers located at adjacent pixel regions are disconnected from each other.