Patent ID: 7152433

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an image display apparatus, comprising the steps of: conveying panel members constituting a display panel of the image display apparatus to a plurality of depressurized processing chambers in due order and performing a plurality of kinds of processing, thereby forming the display panel, wherein, the plurality of processing chambers include a bake processing chamber for subjecting the panel members to bake processing and a seal-bonding processing chamber for assembling and seal-bonding the panel members; and a temperature of the panel members that have undergone bake processing in the bake processing chamber is lowered to a predetermined temperature, then the panel members are brought into the seal-bonding processing chamber, and seal-bonding processing in the seal-bonding processing chamber is conducted by locally heating a seal-bonding material disposed on a seal-bonding portion of the panel members to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point, wherein the melting point of the seal-bonding material is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature.