Patent ID: 7850503

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a plasma display panel including a front substrate and a rear substrate that are opposed to each other with a discharge gas space therebetween, and a structural member for defining a thickness of the discharge gas space in a screen area, the method comprising: making the front substrate and the rear substrate individually; applying a low melting point glass paste including non-porous bead spacers at a ratio within a range of 0.05-2.0 wt % to glass frit onto a peripheral portion of the front substrate or the rear substrate so that the applied low melting point glass paste forms a frame-like shape having a height greater than that of the structural member; assembling the front substrate and the rear substrate in a face-to-face relation with each other; and burning the applied low melting point glass paste while vacuuming a discharge gas space between the front substrate and the rear substrate so as to seal the front substrate and the rear substrate at their peripheral portions.