Patent ID: 7459046

Claim:
A method for applying a film-shaped adhesive comprising: supplying a film-shaped adhesive from a film-shaped adhesive supply reel; controlling an amount of adhesive squeezed out of the film-shaped adhesive while the film-shaped adhesive is on the film-shaped adhesive supply reel in a range of from about 3 μm to about 11 μm; the controlling comprising controlling a temperature of the film-shaped adhesive supply reel with a temperature control device to be from 10° C. to 30° C., the controlling of the temperature also preventing formation of condensation on a surface of the film-shaped adhesive; bonding an adhesive layer of the film-shaped adhesive to an adherend by thermocompression bonding; and removing a base film of the film-shaped adhesive from the adhesive layer, following the bonding, wherein the bonding is achieved by a film-shaped adhesive application apparatus, and the film-shaped adhesive application apparatus comprises: a supply reel retainer for mounting the film-shaped adhesive supply reel used to wind into a roll shape the film-shaped adhesive composed of a base film and the adhesive layer formed thereon, so that a reel tension of the film-shaped adhesive is 100 g or less, a thermocompression bonding device, the thermocompression bonding device thermocompression-bonding the film-shaped adhesive drawn from the film-shaped adhesive supply reel onto the adherend, a winding reel retainer for mounting a winding reel used to wind the base film of the thermocompression-bonded film-shaped adhesive, and the temperature control device.