Patent ID: 7235926

Claim:
A plasma display panel (PDP), comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged facing the first substrate with a space therebetween; a plurality of address electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged on the first substrate; a plurality of barrier ribs arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and dividing the space between the first substrate and the second substrate into a plurality of discharge cells, the plurality of barrier ribs including a plurality of first barrier ribs extending in a first direction parallel to the address electrodes and a plurality of second barrier ribs extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the plurality of first barrier ribs intersecting ones of the plurality of second barrier ribs; a phosphor layer arranged inside the discharge cells; and a plurality of display electrodes arranged on the second substrate at locations that correspond to the discharge cells, the display electrodes includes first display electrodes and second display electrodes, wherein each first and second display electrode comprises a first main bus electrode and a second main bus electrode, respectively, with each main bus electrode extending in a second direction and crossing the address electrodes at a location corresponding to sides of the discharge cells, each main bus electrode extending across ones of said plurality of discharge cells, each first and second display electrode further comprises a first auxiliary bus electrode and a second auxiliary bus electrode, respectively, each first auxiliary bus electrode and each second auxiliary bus electrode extending from one of said discharge cells into another of said discharge cells, each first auxiliary bus electrode extending in the first direction and connecting a first main bus electrode of a discharge cell to a second main bus electrode of a neighboring discharge cell, each second auxiliary bus electrode extending in the first direction and connecting a second main bus electrode of the discharge cell to a first main bus electrode of another neighboring discharge cell.