Method for manufacturing an in plane switching mode liquid crystal display device

Abstract

An in-plane switching mode LCD device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed, which can easily repair data line by forming dummy patterns to prepare an open region of data line during a process. The in-plane switching mode LCD device includes first and second substrates opposing each other and a liquid crystal layer therebetween, gate and data lines arranged to cross each other on the first substrate, a plurality of common electrodes and data electrodes for applying an electric field parallel to the substrate within a pixel region defined by the gate and data lines, and first and second dummy patterns integral with the common electrodes and respectively overlapping a portion of the data line defining the pixel region. If the data line has an open region, the data line is electrically connected with the first and second dummy patterns, while the portion of the common electrode integral with the first and second dummy patterns is insulated from the common line.

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