Patent ID: 7368871

Claim:
A plasma display apparatus comprising: a plasma display apparatus comprising: a plasma display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate at one surface side and sealed thereto, and a plasma discharge structure disposed between the first and second substrates; a chassis base positioned in close proximity to the plasma display panel at one surface side and in parallel with the plasma display panel; and a driving circuit mounted on the opposite surface side of the chassis base and electrically connected to the plasma display panel to drive the panel, wherein the first and second substrates of the plasma display panel have chamfered portions formed along the edges of the first and second substrate surfaces that face away from each other, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are shaped as rectangular parallelepipeds each having long sides and short sides, the long sides of the first substrate being larger than the long sides of the second substrate, and the short sides of the first substrate being smaller than the short sides of the second substrate, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are positioned such that the short sides of the first substrate extend in length beyond the short sides of the second substrate, and the long sides of the second substrate extend in length beyond the long sides of the first substrate, and wherein the surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate has a chamfered portion processed along the edge of the short sides thereof while the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate has a chamfered portion processed along the edge of the long sides thereof.