Patent ID: 6876340
Filing Date: 2005-04-05
Classification: G09G,H01J

Abstract:
1. A plasma display panel including a front substrate, a back substrates opposite the front substrate with a discharge space interposed between the front and back substrates, a plurality of row electrode pairs regularly arranged in a column direction on a back surface of the front substrate and each extending in a row direction to form a display line and being constituted by two row electrodes, a dielectric layer covering the row electrode pairs on the back surface of the front substrate, and a plurality of column electrodes regularly arranged in the row direction on a surface of the back substrate facing the front substrate and each extending in the column direction to intersect the row electrode pairs and form unit light-emitting areas in the discharge space at the respective intersections, said plasma display panel comprising: a selective row electrode extending in the row direction in a position between the row electrode pairs adjacent to each other in the column direction on the back surface of said front substrate; a partition wall surrounding each of said unit light-emitting areas to define the unit light-emitting areas; a dividing wall provided for dividing each of said unit light-emitting areas into a first discharge area provided opposite face-to-face parts of the respective row electrodes constituting each row electrode pair for a discharge to be caused between the row electrodes, and a second discharge area provided opposite a portion of said selective row electrode intersecting with the column electrode for a discharge to be caused between the selective row electrode and the column electrode; and a communication element provided between said first discharge area and said second discharge area for communication from the second discharge area to the first discharge area.