Patent ID: 7224330

Claim:
Image display device comprising: a metal support plate supporting, on its front face, a plasma discharge panel and, on its rear face, means for supplying the said panel and for driving the discharges thereof; the said plasma panel itself comprising a front tile and a rear tile leaving between them plasma discharge regions and, between these tiles, at least a first array of electrodes serving in particular for sustaining discharges by applying voltage pulses between adjacent electrodes of two different series of electrodes of this first array, in which the connection ends of the electrodes of one series emerge on an opposite edge of the panel to that on which the connection ends of the electrodes of the other series emerge, wherein the connection ends of one of the series of electrodes emerging on one edge of the panel are connected to supply and drive means via transverse electrical conductors which are inserted between the said rear tile and the said metal plate and which extend, from the said ends, as far as the opposite edge of the panel.