Patent ID: 7999763

Claim:
A plasma display apparatus, comprising: a plasma display panel including an address electrode; and a driver configured to supply a data signal to the address electrode during an address period, wherein the data signal includes a voltage rising period during which the data signal gradually rises from a ground level voltage to a first voltage using an inductor, a voltage maintaining period during which the data signal is maintained at a second voltage higher than the first voltage, and a voltage falling period during which the data signal gradually falls to a voltage less than the second voltage, wherein a magnitude of the first voltage is more than the ground level voltage, the magnitude of the first voltage is equal to or more than one half of a magnitude of the second voltage, and the magnitude of the first voltage is less than the magnitude of the second voltage, wherein, at a time when the voltage of the data signal is equal to the first voltage, a voltage of the data signal is clamped to the second voltage and a current flowing in the inductor ranges from 0.2 to 0.7 times a maximum current value of the inductor, wherein the data signal includes a first data signal and a second data signal, the second data signal being supplied consecutively after the first data signal, wherein, during a voltage falling period of the first data signal, the first data signal falls to a third voltage higher than a lowest voltage supplied during a voltage rising period of the first data signal, and wherein the second data signal gradually rises from the third voltage to a fourth voltage using the inductor period of the second data signal, the fourth voltage being lower than the first voltage.