Patent ID: 7609231

Claim:
A plasma display panel comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other; address electrodes formed on said second substrate; barrier ribs arranged in the space between said first substrate and said second substrate to define a plurality of discharge cells and non-discharge regions; phosphor layers formed within each of said discharge cells; and display electrodes formed on said first substrate, each having a sustain electrode (X electrode) and a scan electrode (Y electrode) in a corresponding pair within each of said discharge cells, wherein the non-discharge region is formed in an area encompassed by discharge cell abscissas that pass through centers of adjacent discharge cells and discharge cell ordinates that pass through centers of adjacent discharge cells, and the non-discharge region is at least greater than the width of the upper portion of each of said barrier ribs, wherein the discharge cells are arranged to form an alternating pattern such that the pitches between the centers of the adjacent discharge cells in the direction of the address electrodes are different from one another.