Patent ID: 7218058

Claim:
A cold cathode type flat panel display which is an image display device comprising a vacuum panel container composed of a cathode substrate in which plural cold cathode type electron sources are arranged at regular intervals, an anode substrate in which a phosphor film is deposited in the form of dots or lines so as to be opposed to the electron sources, plural spacers for supporting the cathode substrate and the anode substrate at a given interval, and a glass frame for keeping vacuum, plural electrical lines which extend in a line direction and a row direction which cross each other being formed, across an interlayer insulator, on the cathode substrate, the cold cathode type electron sources being arranged at positions corresponding to intersection coordinates of these electrical lines so as to be connected to the electrical lines in the line direction and the row direction, and the cold cathode type electron sources being line-sequentially scanned, thereby displaying images, wherein some parts of lines positioned in an upper layer out of the plural electrical lines are made into scan lines and lines positioned in a lower layer out of the plural electrical lines are made into data lines, and wherein some parts of the electrical lines positioned in the upper layer are made into ground lines for giving ground voltage to the spacers, and further the spacers are in a ground state by the ground lines at the least in a period when the scan lines adjacent thereto are selected.