Plasma display apparatus

1. A plasma display apparatus comprising: a plasma display panel in which an electrode group is formed; a chassis to which the plasma display panel is fixed and in which a circuit part for driving the plasma display panel is disposed and configured; and a plurality of driver modules which electrically connect the electrode side of the plasma display panel to the circuit part side of the chassis;

wherein the plurality of driver modules are adjacently disposed in the vicinity of the chassis;

the driver module has a flexible substrate on which wiring of the connection and an IC are mounted and a substrate bonded with a surface of the flexible substrate for holding/fixing the flexible substrate to the chassis and

is disposed so that a spatial region is provided between the flexible substrate and the chassis, and the substrate is held/fixed to the chassis; and

as a structure which attaches and holds/fixes the adjacent driver modules to an attachment part of the chassis, for each driver module,

the substrate and the flexible substrate are positioned by at least two positioning parts in the attachment part and the substrate, and

the adjacent substrates are commonly fastened to each other by respectively using screwing by at least two common fastening parts in the attachment part and a part where both ends of the substrates are neighboring each other.

2. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the substrate is a generally-rectangular metal plate having sides longer than the width of the flexible substrate;

in each of the short side parts at both ends of the substrate, a semi-circular chipped portion is provided corresponding to the position of fastening of a screw part of the common fastening part; and

the attachment part of the chassis has a female screw portion corresponding to the position of fastening of the screw part of the common fastening part.

3. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 2 , having

elongated holes corresponding to the positioning parts respectively in the vicinities of inside of the short side parts at both ends of the substrate;

wherein the attachment part of the chassis has a protruding part at a position corresponding to the elongated hole of the positioning part.

4. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 1 , having a structure of the attachment part,

at a position above the main body of the chassis corresponding to the neighboring parts of the neighboring substrates of the adjacent driver modules,

for placing and attaching each end of the substrate, wherein the attachment part has: a planar portion bulged with respect to the surface of the main body of the chassis; and, below the planar portion, a spatial region through which ventilation can be performed in the extending direction of the flexible substrate.

5. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the attachment part is formed as a member made of metal attached to the main body of the chassis by screwing.

6. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 5 ,

wherein the member made of metal has a female screw portion in the bulged planar portion at a position corresponding to the chipped portions of the common fastening part and has protruding portions at positions corresponding to the elongated holes of the positioning parts.

7. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the driver module is an address driving module connecting a group of address electrodes of the plasma display panel with an address driving circuit in the circuit part; and the plurality of address driving modules are aligned and disposed in the region in the vicinity of the chassis.

8. A plasma display apparatus comprising: a plasma display panel in which an electrode group is formed; a chassis to which the plasma display panel is fixed and in which a circuit part for driving the plasma display panel is disposed and configured; and a plurality of driver modules which electrically connect the electrode side of the plasma display panel to the circuit part side of the chassis;

wherein the plurality of driver modules are adjacently disposed in the vicinity of the chassis;

the driver module has a flexible substrate on which wiring of the connection and an IC are mounted and a substrate bonded with a surface of the flexible substrate for holding/fixing the flexible substrate to the chassis and

is disposed so that a spatial region is provided between the flexible substrate and the chassis, and the substrate is held/fixed to the chassis; and

as a structure which attaches and holds/fixes the adjacent driver modules to an attachment part of the chassis, for each driver module,

the adjacent substrates are commonly held/fixed to each other by respectively using latch-pins by at least two common fastening parts in the attachment part and a part where both ends of the substrates are neighboring each other.

9. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 8 ,

wherein as a structure which attaches and holds/fixes the adjacent driver modules to an attachment part of the chassis, for each driver module,

the substrate and the flexible substrate are positioned by at least two positioning parts in the attachment part and in the vicinities of both ends of the substrate.

10. The plasma display apparatus according to claim 8 ,

wherein the substrate is a generally-rectangular metal plate having sides longer than the width of the flexible substrate;

in each of the short side parts at both ends of the substrate, a semi-circular chipped portion is provided corresponding to the position of fastening of a screw part of the common fastening part; and

the attachment part of the chassis has a hole corresponding to insertion of the latch-pin corresponding to the position of fastening of the screw part of the common fastening part.