Patent ID: 8096336

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a first holding device configured to hold a first substrate coated with a sealing agent made of a viscoelastic material such as to surround a display region thereof; a second holding device configured to hold a second substrate on which an effective region is formed at a position corresponding to the display region of the first substrate, such that the second substrate opposes the first holding device; a movement device configured to move at least one of the first and second holding devices in a vertical direction so as to adhere the first and second substrates to each other via the sealing agent, and then to move the first and second holding devices relatively to each other in a horizontal direction so as to align the first and second substrates with each other; a control device configured to calculate an amount of position displacement in a horizontal direction occurring when the first and second substrates are adhered to each other by the movement device, and to move the first and second substrates with use of the movement device so as to correct the position displacement, wherein the control device calculates a shortage of a movement amount of each of the first and second substrates, which results due to a resistance acting between the first and second substrates, said control device includes and provides instructions to move the first and second substrates by an additional movement amount for the shortage calculated, and the shortage of the movement amount of each of the first and second substrates is obtained by L/K1, where the resistance between the first and second substrates is represented by L and a rigidity of the moving device is represented by K1.