Patent ID: 8147288

Claim:
A method for aligning film sheets and rectangular panels in a continuous manufacturing system of display panels, the manufacturing system being configured for providing film sheets each formed in a strip shaped film laminate between two longitudinally adjacent, transversely extending slit lines, one being at an upstream side and the other at a downstream side as seen in a feed direction of the film laminate, and conveying the film sheets as an integral unit with the strip shaped film laminate, with respect to a plurality of sequentially conveyed rectangular panels, to a lamination position for lamination with the rectangular panels, peeling the film sheets from the strip shaped film laminate, and laminating the peeled sheets with the rectangular panels conveyed to the lamination position in synchronization with the film sheets to thereby produce display panels in a continuous manner; the method comprising steps of; angularly adjusting the rectangular panel conveyed to the lamination position such that the center line extending in the feeding direction of the rectangular panels is in parallel with the center line extending in the feeding direction of the film sheets conveyed to the lamination position; and positionally adjusting the angularly adjusted rectangular panels by shifting each of the panels by a distance corresponding to a displacement of each panel from the position of the corresponding film sheet conveyed to the lamination position.