Patent ID: 7579777

Claim:
A plasma display panel, comprising: a first substrate facing a second substrate; a plurality of address electrodes arranged on the first substrate; a plurality of barrier ribs arranged in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate and defining a plurality of discharge cells; a plurality of phosphor layers arranged in the plurality of discharge cells, respectively; a plurality of display electrodes arranged on the second substrate and extending in a direction crossing ones of the plurality of address electrodes, wherein a sealing line is arranged near a periphery of where the first and the second substrates overlap each other, each of the plurality of address electrodes extends from a first side of said plasma display panel to a second and opposite side of said plasma display panel, and said each of the plurality of address electrodes extends through said sealing line to an exterior of said sealing line at only one of said first side and said second side of said plasma display panel, each of the plurality of display electrodes comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, each sustain electrode comprising an effective portion arranged within an area surrounded by the sealing line and a short circuit portion arranged at one end of the effective portion, with the short circuit portion being electrically connected to and in common with the effective portion of each sustain electrode, and the short circuit portion residing entirely within the image area.