| US 7,557,504 B2 | ||
| Plasma display panel with priming discharge cell | ||
| Hiroyuki Tachibana, Suita (Japan); Morio Fujitani, Takatsuki (Japan); Tsuyoshi Nishio, Mino (Japan); Toru Ando, Osaka (Japan); and Koichi Mizuno, Kusatsu (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/504,960 PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/004139 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 18, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/086445, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 07, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-088457 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0099125 A1, May 12, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01J 17/49 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 313—582 [313/581; 313/292; 345/60] | 8 Claims |
| 1. A plasma display panel comprising:
a first electrode and a second electrode parallel with each other on a first substrate;
a third electrode on a second substrate and extending in a direction orthogonal to the first electrode and the second electrode,
the second substrate facing the first substrate with a discharge space therebetween;
a fourth electrode on the second substrate and parallel to the first electrode and the second electrode; and
a first discharge space and a second discharge space on the second substrate and partitioned by a barrier rib, wherein
a main discharge cell for performing a discharge with the first electrode, the second electrode and the third electrode is
in the first discharge space, and a priming discharge cell for performing a discharge with the fourth electrode and at least
one of the first electrode and the second electrode is in the second discharge space,
the barrier rib and the first substrate have a clearance therebetween,
wherein the barrier rib comprises:
a longitudinal rib part extending in a direction orthogonal to the first electrode and the second electrode, and
a lateral rib part, extending in a direction orthogonal to the third electrode and parallel with die first electrode and the
second electrode, partitioning the first discharge space from the second discharge space, and
wherein a pair of first electrodes are arranged next to a pair of second electrodes on the first substrate, and
the fourth electrode faces the second discharge space and a plurality of first electrodes which are scan electrodes adjacent
to each other.
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