Patent ID: 8110120

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: preparing at least one assembly for forming a plurality of finished liquid crystal display apparatuses, the at least one assembly including a pair of glass substrates opposing each other, a space being provided between the pair of glass substrates, and a periphery of the space between the pair of glass substrates being sealed by an outer peripheral seal member, wherein said pair of glass substrates have an area sufficient to form said plurality of finished liquid crystal display apparatuses, and are bonded to each other by: (i) a plurality of single-element seal members, which are interposed between the pair of glass substrates and each of which surrounds a display region for one of the finished liquid crystal display apparatuses, and (ii) the outer peripheral seal member which is provided around the plurality of single-element seal members; etching outer surfaces of the pair of glass substrates by soaking the at least one assembly in an etching solution within an etching bath; thereafter flattening the etched outer surfaces of the pair of glass substrates by polishing the outer surfaces of the pair of glass substrates, wherein the polishing includes performing mechanical polishing and performing chemical mechanical polishing after performing the mechanical polishing; and thereafter cutting the at least one assembly into a plurality of individual ones of the finished liquid crystal display apparatuses, wherein the cutting the at least one assembly includes a first cutting to obtain a plurality of secondary assemblies each having a strip shape, each of the secondary assemblies including a plurality of the single-element seal members.