Abstract: A gas discharge display device includes a center plate which comprises cells for defining a display area. The center plate, which is sandwiched between two electrode holding plates each of which has an electrode coated with a dielectric layer, is in the form of a porous insulating layer having a low dielectric constant.

Abstract: A gas-discharge display panel includes a third group of electrodes in addition to the first and second groups of electrodes found in a conventional gas-discharge display panel. A series of control discharge spaces are respectively formed at those positions where the third group of electrodes mate with the first group of electrodes. The voltage applied to the first group of electrodes is controlled by utilizing the constant-voltage characteristics of the cells formed between the first and third groups of electrodes.

Abstract: When a plasma display panel driven by a conventional driving circuit therefor, spurious pulsed voltages appear across discharge cells which are in the vicinity of a selected discharge cell. A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel in a time division manner includes supplying the plasma display panel electrodes with suppress pulse trains for cancelling the spurious pulse voltages coupled thereto. The suppress pulse trains are in synchronism with, and of a polarity opposite to the driving pulses that are supplied to such electrodes in accordance with time division principles.