Patent ID: 7230587

Claim:
A plasma display device, comprising: a plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes disposed nearly in parallel with said plurality of first electrodes so as to configure display cells, each display cell including one of the plurality of first electrodes and one of the plurality of second electrodes, and so as to activate electric discharge between the one of the plurality of second electrodes and the one of the plurality of first electrodes comprising said display cell; a first electrode drive circuit applying discharge voltage to said plurality of first electrodes; and a second electrode drive circuit applying discharge voltage to said plurality of second electrodes, wherein said first and second electrode drive circuits comprise first and second sustain circuits, respectively, outputting a sustain discharge voltage for activating electric discharge associated with light emission in said display cell, and at least one of said first or second sustain circuits has a parallel circuit in which a first switching element having a high-speed switching performance and a second switching element having a low-saturation-voltage performance are connected in parallel, thereby applying the sustain discharge voltage to both the first and second switching elements.