Patent ID: 6924595

Claim:
A damping and muffling structure for an EL cell, comprising: a transparent substrate; a transparent front electrode layer overlaying the substrate; a lighting layer overlaying the transparent front electrode layer; an inducing layer overlaying the lighting layer; a back electrode layer at least partially overlaying the inducing layer; a conductive member overlaying directly on a portion of the inducing layer and a portion of the transparent front electrode layer to make electrical contact therewith, the conductive member being laterally spaced from the back electrode layer on the inducing layer; and, an insulating layer for packaging the EL cell, the transparent front electrode layer and the back electrode layer being connected with a driving circuit, the transparent front electrode layer being connected to a grounding electrode of the driving circuit, the conductive member thereby providing a conductive path for an accumulated charge from the inducing layer to the grounding electrode.