Patent ID: 7061178

Claim:
A plasma display device comprising: a panel including a plurality of substrates: a plurality of rows of sustain electrodes and scan electrodes on one of said substrates; a terminal lead-out section on said one of said substrates at a location on one side of said panel and outside an effective display area of said panel; a driving circuit of said sustain electrodes; a plurality of printed circuit boards electrically connected to said terminal lead-out section and said driving circuit; wherein said terminal lead-out section comprises: a common connection pattern connected to each printed circuit board, and providing all of said sustain electrodes with a common connection at the location outside the effective display area of said panel; and a plurality of connection blocks connected to said common connection pattern, and being located at a pitch which is determined to satisfy an expression L 1 /N±(L 2 −L 1 )/N, where L 1 indicates a length of said common connection pattern, L 2 indicates a length of a short side of said panel on which said terminal lead-out section is disposed, and N indicates the number of said connection blocks.