Patent ID: 7141930

Claim:
An image display device comprising: a metallic support plate carrying, on its front face, a plasma discharge display and, on its back face, power supply and control means for the discharge of said plasma discharge display, said plasma discharge display comprising a front panel and back panel, and having at least a first array of electrodes for maintaining discharges by the application of voltage pulses between adjacent electrode of two different series of electrodes of this first array, said electrodes having connection ends emerging from one side of said panel, wherein said connection ends of the electrodes of the two different series are situated on opposite edges of the display, said power supply and control means for each pair of adjacent electrodes of two different series forming a current loop starting from the power supply and control means passing through a first electrode then the second electrode of the pair, said current loop of the power supply and control means of this pair not enclosing the metallic plate, the connection ends of one of the series of electrodes emerging from one side of the display being linked to the power supply and control means by means of transverse electrical conductors placed on the front side of said metallic plate and extending from said ends to the opposite side of the display, wherein each transverse conductor is linked to an electrode corresponding to a pair of adjacent electrodes forming a non-zero angle with said pair of electrodes.