Patent ID: 7002296

Claim:
An AC plane discharge plasma display panel comprising: a front substrate; a rear substrate; a sealing portion operable to encapsulate said front substrate and said rear substrate at a peripheral edge portion thereof to seal a discharge gas therein; column ribs extending longitudinally and row ribs extending laterally, perpendicular to the column ribs, to thereby define pixel cells in a matrix; a plurality of electrodes, provided on said rear substrate, each extending longitudinally in the column direction, a plurality of plane discharge electrodes, each extending laterally in the row direction, provided on said front substrate, having display electrodes and bus electrodes; wherein the display electrodes comprise sustain electrodes and scan electrodes connected to sustain-side bus electrodes and scan-side bus electrodes, respectively, wherein said sustain-side bus electrodes and said scan-side bus electrodes are parallel to the row ribs and are spaced from row ribs in the column direction, wherein each pixel cell, individually, has one sustain-side bus electrode and one scan-side bus electrode, and wherein one sustain electrode is provided for a pair of first and second pixel cells adjacent to each other in the column direction, and wherein said one sustain electrode is positioned above alternating said row ribs, and wherein said one sustain electrode has two sustain-side bus electrodes connected to it.