Patent ID: 7816867

Claim:
A plasma display panel including a pair of first and second substrates placed parallel to each other on either side of a discharge space, and including on the first substrate a plurality of row electrode pairs extending in a row direction and regularly arranged in a column direction and a plurality of column electrodes extending in the column direction and regularly arranged in the row direction, with a plurality of unit light emission areas being formed in matrix form within the discharge space for initiating a discharge therein by use of the row electrode pairs and the column electrodes, wherein row electrodes paired to constitute each of the row electrode pairs have discharge portions placed in accordance with the unit light emission areas and opposite to each other with a discharge gap in between, and each of the column electrodes is placed parallel to a central area between the discharge portions of each row electrode which are adjacent to each other in the row direction, and in a position closer to the discharge portion serving as a partner of the column electrode for initiating a discharge than to another discharge portion which is located on the opposite side of the column electrode from the discharge portion serving as the partner for initiating the discharge.