Patent ID: 6559815
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: G09G,H01J

Abstract:
A method of driving a PDP having front and rear substrates opposed to and spaced apart from each other to maintain a discharge space, discharge sustaining electrodes having pairs of parallel, striped scanning lines and common lines on the front substrate, address electrodes arranged on the rear substrate orthogonally to the discharge sustaining electrodes, and a frit portion for hermetically sealing edges of the front and rear substrates, wherein a common connection line for connecting the common electrodes to each other is formed at a periphery at one end of the front substrate, and external connection terminals, where a plurality of common electrodes constituting an electrode group are simultaneously connected to the outside, the extending connection terminals extending from each of the plurality of common electrodes, are formed at the exposed portions of the other ends of the front substrate, at which the external connection terminals where the scanning electrodes are connected to the outside, are formed, the method comprising the step of driving the scanning electrodes by each two adjacent lines, wherein positive and negative discharge sustain pulses are alternately applied to two even-numbered driven lines, and a discharge sustain pulse having an opposite polarity to the two even-numbered driven lines is applied to two odd-numbered driven lines in synchronization with the discharge sustain pulses applied to the two even-numbered driven lines.