Patent ID: 7336033

Claim:
An AC plane discharge plasma display panel comprising: a front substrate; a rear substrate; a sealing portion for encapsulating said front substrate and said rear substrate at a peripheral edge portion thereof to seal a discharge gas therein; pixel cells arranged in a column direction and in a row direction, respectively, in a matrix fashion; and a plurality of sustain electrodes and a plurality of scan electrodes arranged such that a pair of each said sustain electrode and each said scan electrode extend in the column direction within each said pixel cell and face each other over a discharge gap, and such that one said sustain electrode in one said pixel cell is adjacent to another said sustain electrode in a neighboring said pixel cell arranged in the column direction and one said scan electrode in said one pixel cell is adjacent to another said scan electrode in an opposite neighboring pixel cell in the column direction; wherein each said sustain electrode has a display electrode portion and a bus electrode portion and each said scan electrode has a display electrode portion and a bus electrode portion such that the display electrode of said sustain electrode faces the display electrode portion of said scan electrode over the discharge gap in the column direction, and such that the bus electrode portion of said sustain electrode in said one pixel cell extends in parallel to the bus electrode portion of said sustain electrode in said neighboring pixel cell and the bus electrode portion of said scan electrode in said one pixel cell extends in parallel to the bus electrode portion of said scan electrode in said opposite neighboring pixel cell, and wherein said one said sustain electrode is spaced from said another said sustain electrode, or the display electrode portion of said one said sustain electrode is spaced from the display portion of said another said sustain electrode.