Patent ID: 7655108
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: H01J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A display panel assembly method for assembling a display panel by bonding a substrate onto a glass panel via a bonding material using a bonder, the display panel assembly method comprising: a panel loading step for loading the glass panel, on which a connector is bonded to its edge, to a panel-positioning unit; a panel positioning step for holding the glass panel and positioning the connector with respect to the bonder from a first side of the bonder by the panel-positioning unit; a substrate transport step for transferring the substrate supplied to a substrate holder at a substrate-feeding position to the bonder from a second side of the bonder by circulating the substrate holder on which the substrate is placed using a circulatory transport mechanism, the second side of the bonder being opposite to the first side with respect to the bonder; a bonding material feeding step for supplying the bonding material to the substrate held with the substrate holder by a bonding material feeder in a middle of the substrate transport step, the bonding material feeder being disposed on a circulating route of the circulatory transport mechanism; a bonding step for bonding the connector onto the substrate via the bonding material by the bonder; and a panel unloading step for unloading the assembled display panel from the panel-positioning unit, wherein: the circulating route includes a first transport route which is linear and parallel to a panel transport unit and disposed at the second side of the bonder, the first transport route being configured of movable rails, and a second transport route disposed parallel to the first transport route at a position further from the bonder than the first transport route at the second side of the bonder, the second transport route being configured of a fixed rail; the substrate holder circulates in the circulating route by being transferred between the first transport route and the second transport route; and the bonding material feeding step is executed on the first transport route.