Patent ID: 8409388

Claim:
A system for manufacturing an optical display device in which an optical film is bonded to an optical display unit, comprising: an optical display unit feeding apparatus that successively feeds optical display units; an optical film feeding apparatus that draws a long sheet material having an optical film out from a roll on which the long sheet material is wound up, cuts at least the optical film into a predetermined length, and feeds the long sheet material having the optical film cut; a bonding apparatus that bonds the optical film cut fed from the optical film feeding apparatus onto a surface of the optical display unit fed from the optical display unit feeding apparatus; and a controller that operates or stops each of the apparatuses, wherein the optical film feeding apparatus has a roll exchanging section for exchanging a roll of a previous category for a roll of a latter category and joining the optical films of the previous category and the latter category at the time of exchanging categories of the optical display unit, the optical display unit feeding apparatus has a counting section that counts the number of optical display units that have been fed by the optical display unit feeding apparatus, and the controller stores the number N of optical display units that may be bonded substantially in correspondence with the length of optical film that is present from a joining position of the optical film to a bonding position of the optical film, and stops each of the apparatuses when the number X of remaining optical display units of the previous category prior to bonding becomes substantially equal to the number N at the time of exchanging categories of the optical display unit based on information from the counting section.